Ceramicist Sue Ure applying bands of colour to her porcelain and stoneware vases Craft exhibition Origin have shared with us some behi...
Each Project determines the speed your pottery wheel turns. Variable speed control lets you alter electric wheel speed from zero to 240 or 300 RPMs.
Wheel Throwing Video - Fitting Form: How to Alter Wheel Thrown Pottery Using Darts
This group of vases are handmade by throwing on a pottery wheel and then altering when still wet to form organic, oval-like forms. They are then glazed in a yellow satin textured glaze on the exterior and a blue green glaze on the interior and lip. The satin glaze shows the brush strokes and drips, highlighting the process of creating and organic nature of the form. These vases are perfect to hold a few delicate blooms or look beautiful as a grouping on a shelf. The vases range from 6"h x 5"d to 2"h x 2 1/2"d.
Recently I’ve been “seeing” the figures in my pots in ways that I hadn’t previously noticed. The gesture, stance, posture of these pots have led me to be more intentional a…
Each piece is fired to cone 04 and is made by a technique of altering wheel-thrown shapes. Then additions of hand-built shapes are attached to form legs, tail, and other details of the animal or human form. The sculpting of the features is done entirely by hand using modest tools. Surface decoration is achieved when textural marks are infused with layering of engobes, slips, and commercial underglazes. Many different brush sizes are used to achieve the varied surface treatments. Each piece is unique.
The process of making the double neck pieces involves first throwing a form before cutting off the neck and putting it aside. A second smaller neck is thrown and allowed to set up. Then the smaller neck is attached to the original pot and allowed to set up. Two different pots setting up. This is the smaller of the two above uncovered. Adding coils to the attached second neck. Adding coils to the original neck which was cut off and set aside before the second neck was thrown and attached to the bottom of the pot. Reassembling the original neck over the second neck. The two necks are joined, spaces cut out between the outer leaves and marks made for further sculpting. This then is how all the pieces in the blog entry 'Seeing Double' were made although this particular pot is still drying and is quite a bit larger than those shown below. Once it is fired, we'll post more photos.
Pottery is one of the oldest human inventions. Some fragments of ancient pottery found in southern China date back 20,000 years.
Step 1: Building Forms All of my work incorporates both wheel-thrown and hand-built elements. I often alter the initial thrown form by cutting out triangle or leaf-shaped darts. In seamstress…
Before I delve too deeply into this post, I want to thank everyone for the warm "welcome back" that I received after my last post; comments on the post , comments on Facebook and some really wonderful emails. Thanks for all the warm fuzzies and cheering on! I'm happy to be blogging agai
Agateware pottery experts Michelle Erickson and Robert Hunter demonstrate how to throw agateware on the pottery wheel.
These cups are the first time I stated experimenting with altering pottery while it's on the wheel. The rippled nature of them calls to the nature of imperfection and the beauty in being different.
