Gary Jackson: Fire When Ready Pottery
A Chicago potter’s somewhat slanted view of clay & play
Categories: color, stamped, textures, tiles

Textured tiles… mini tiles kinda creating a “quilt” of sorts. Each individual tile is less than an inch square. Thanks to MKM Pottery Tools for cool handrollers that made most of these textures!

Categories: production, textures

Little textured nuggets ready for a bisque kiln!

Categories: textures

Parts & pieces coming together… working on some new “collaboration” pieces for “4×4 : FOUR MAKERS.” Kinda loving how the underglazes are highlighting the textures made with some of my MKM Pottery Tools handrollers! Time to start glazing pretty soon! Just two more weeks until “4×4”!!!

Categories: stamped, textures, tiles

Textured tiles now accented with colored slips & drying in a plastic grid to avoid warping! Can’t wait to fire these to see the colors pop… and quick… “4×4” is just two weeks away! Yikes!!!

Categories: production, stamped, textures, tiles, tools

Some early morning textured tiles in the works… getting ready for “4×4 : FOUR MAKERS” which is just about two weeks away! A mix of textures using my own handmade stamps & some using my favorite MKM Pottery Tools handrollers!

Categories: color, textures, tiles
Categories: textures, tiles, tools

Playing with some of my MKM Pottery Tools handrollers… making mini textured tiles with a master plan?! I’ve got a themed project in the making… and this is the start of the first of four pieces!

Categories: handbuilding, stamped, textures

There’s a little something new brewing in my studio… after a night of playing with textured rollers last night. I have a loose “plan” here… we’ll see how it comes together?! Hopefully well… and in time for the “4×4 : FOUR MAKERS” show the end of this month!!! Fingers crossed…

Categories: handbuilding, surface decoration, textures, tools

Letting things “roll” with my carved handrollers from MKM Pottery Tools!

Categories: textures

Late afternoon sun through an old-school textured glass block window.