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

Fresh from the kiln… for another Mugshot Monday! For tonight’s final night of the session for my Intermediate Wheel class, our “white elephant trading stealing exchanging game” was a set of four matching mugs! Of course I had to play along… and I made two sets! Giving myself options to pick out my favorite set of four… with a few “extras” to choose from.

And wait… what is that? A new glaze color??? Yes!!! The very first pieces out of the kiln in the new chambray blue color. I’m not quite sure yet. I like the green so much better… but the blue might grow on me?!

You tell me… Do we like it or not???

Categories: stamped, vases

Fresh from a bisque firing… a pile of cutie-patootie mini vases! Waiting for some glaze… in the stamps & inside the vases. Just getting ready for my upcoming soda firing!!!

Categories: flowers, soda-fired, stamped, vases

After a trip to the Andersonville Farmer’s Market on Wednesday, this collection of beautiful dahlias is now looking quite comfortable in one of my stamped & soda-fired oval vases. Beautiful blooms from Vangie’s Farm… including crazy cool & crazy huge curly burgundy dahlia! Perfect for a beautiful Floral Friday!

Categories: mugs, production, stamped

So here they are for now… lots of new mugs with some of them “destined” to be part of our class trading & exchanging game for the final night of my Intermediate Wheel class. Still gotta lot to do… drying, bisque firing, glazing & firing again… with the deadline quickly approaching… giddy-up!

Categories: process, production, stamped, surface decoration, textures

With a rainy start to the day, I ended up adding some colored flashing slip details in the studio early this morning before heading down to summer camp!!!

Categories: mugs, process, production, stamped

Today I stamped the cylinders that are going to become my “matching” mugs for class. I decided to turn them into two different sets… with two different “sets” of thrown cylinders that were closer to matching than the others. And then I stamped each “set” with a different stamp. Hoping that as I trim them & add handles, they will continue to get even more matchy-matchy!!!

Categories: process, production, stamped

I had a very productive afternoon in the studio after summer camping all morning! Did a bit of stamping & detailing with some colored flashing slips. Getting ready for two upcoming soda kiln firings!!! Gotta make more… gotta make more…

Categories: bowls, food, stamped

No scurvy here… just some large clementines in a stamped & glazed bowl. Loving the color combination of the orange & green together!

Categories: art fair, flowers, soda-fired, stamped, vases

Celebrating another Floral Friday… with my Glenview art fair booth flowers from last weekend that are still holding up really well. And looking great in an oval vase that “spreads them out” a bit more so you can see more flowers!!!

Categories: bowls, food, holiday, soda-fired, stamped

After a full day of Summer Camp… followed by an evening in my studio… I felt that I “deserved” to celebrate NATIONAL HOT FUDGE SUNDAE DAY when I got home!!! … burp.