Last week in my Beginning Wheelthrowing class, we threw larger bowls. And then last night, we did a bit of stamping on the same larger bowl demo piece. My students have already made bowls & made their own stamps… now they just need to put it all together!

Gotta love playing with some thick slip! This was made as a class demo last night, so I guess it kinda still fits under Texture Tuesday… even though today is Wednesday???

Last night in my SURFACE DECORATIONS class, I did a little “Demo-On-Demand” repeat. They saw my post about the handbuilt textured platter from Tuesday night’s class… and they wanted to see it too!!! So I did it again… this time with a commercial roller from a paint store, and a small grooved rolling pin! These are turning out pretty cool… I may need to make more of these???

In addition to wheelthrowing plates in class tonight… one of my students asked about making handbuilt plates. Sure, it’s a wheelthrowing class, but I’m always up for a good “Demo-On-Demand”!!! So I taught them how to throw a slab, add a little texture and drape it into a slump mold. It was my first time using this mold… kind of excited to see how it turns out. Not bad for an impromptu plate demo!!!

This week in my SURFACE DECORATIONS class, we tackled the fun crackled slip effect using sodium silicate. This was my second demo piece… the first didn’t work out so well… not enough slip, plus I rushed the drying a bit. Not so crackly. So we all “learned” together… and this second one was so much better!!!

After my class demo, the students tried their version of crackled slip as well… throwing in some colored slip too! Some multiple colors & some bowl shapes! The excitement happens when you “bulge” the pot out from the inside – and the expanding of the clay makes the “quick-dried” slip crackled as the clay expands! So much fun!!!

One last class demo plate, one last stamped & textured rim… for now! I’m “fairly sure” there will be more at some point soon!!!

Another side plate with a textured perimeter…
a gentle spiral and a ring of pointed stamps!

A bigger plate with a bigger flanged rim just screams out for MORE STAMPING!!! One handmade stamp pressed into the clay one by one… by one… by one…

A smaller side plate with concentric circles…
and a perimeter of stamped impressions!

This week in two of my pottery classes I demo’d how to make plates… and then after class I “just had to” do a little stamping in my studio! I mean… how could I possibly leave them plain?!!!