Gary Jackson: Fire When Ready Pottery
A Chicago potter’s somewhat slanted view of clay & play
Categories: inspiration

A beautiful day for a road trip… blue skies… puffy white clouds… just cruisin’ through Chenoa on my way to St. Louis. Always enjoy getting my kicks on Route 66!

Categories: food, mugs

Another shamrock mug in its new home…
looking yummy with some foam, a cookie and some FROSTING!!!
Looks good Diane!

Categories: mugs

As this mug now has a beautiful backyard view! Chilly, but warming up with a cup of hot tea & honey on a cold & sunny day. Plus, I’m totally diggin’ the reflection shimmering on the tea… thanks for sharing Kelly!

Categories: mugs, process, production, stamped

I’ve added a few layers of colored flashing slips to my mugs. A band of color along the top, and some smaller dabs of color inside most of the stamps! Hopefully these colors will “play well” during the atmospheric soda firing later! And now it’s off to class downstairs…

Categories: mugs, process, production, stamped, studio

Score, slip, attach, repeat… repeat.. repeat… Another batch of mugs assembled… now they just need some colored flashing slip accents & details! Just hoping to get them all done before I go down to teach class tonight!!

Happy Mugshot Monday!!!

Categories: process, production

Little nuggets of clay standing at attention…
getting ready to start pulling some mug handles!!!

Categories: mugs, process, production

Handles pulled the old-fashioned way… curled over & standing up so that they can stiffen up a bit before I start attaching them to my stamped & trimmed mug cylinders!

Categories: mugs

Looks like this pair of Shamrock Mugs have made it safely to their new home… and looking great in your beautiful kitchen Melissa!!!

Categories: process, production, studio, tools

Cutting ribbons… spinning clay… trimming bottoms! So much easier, quicker, cleaner & a lot more fun with DiamondCore Tools & my Giffin Grip – the perfect pottery studio duo!!!

Categories: mugs, stamped, studio, tools

Just getting ready to tackle a new batch of mugs… getting ready for some fun trimming, which we all know I LOVE!!! Especially with my line-up of trimming tools from DiamondCore Tools.