Clay Journal

A place to record my work

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Speckled. Thrown, trimmed and shaped

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Two new trimmed pieces. Grey and recycled clay bodies respectively. The grey piece trimmed quite thin. Have to start to approach throwing/trimming in some kind of integrated way, so the overall weight improves and each pot seems more refined.

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Brown body. Egan’s cream liner. Overall GA28. Dots of butterscotch, sea green, chun plum and Lou’s Blue 671T. Dots are very delicate - hope too many don’t drop in the firing to pots below…

Very nice effect.

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Grey body. Jar with three lid parts. Overall lagoon on all pieces and dots of butterscotch. Hoping for movement. Hoping things fit together without grinding.

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Three cups in speckled. Clear liners. Underglaze illustration with glaze pencil outlines and details. Dots of chun on the moon cup. Handles had deep cracks around joins. Brushed on the clear over top as we only had about a quarter cup left - looks pretty rough, but hoping the waxed sections clear up.

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Porcelain body. Liner is satin clear. Exterior is clear with stripes of pb weird and sea green. Dots of Akiko’s krater around foot.

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Brown body. Interior pear. Ext rainforest stripes of akiko’s krater.

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White body. Clear liner. Curry overall. Stripes of rainforest akiko’s krater (we hope!)

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Black body. Rainforest liner, outside chun plum. Maybe rainforest stripes.

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Bowl in brown. Interior is tenmoku overall, with stripes of tangelo and chun plum. Outside is just fine stripes of tangelo.

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Black clay body. Pale green liner. Double dipped bronze glaze (will probably run hard), spiral of yellow underglaze. Stripes of satin clear. Completely kookie.

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Brown clay. Overall lagoon blue, dots of pale blue chun and butterscotch. Copper green 672T liner.

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White (speckled?) body? Overall satin clear. Slip trailed PB weird spotted.

Fired: ran, looked terrible, destroyed.

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Grey body. Dots of krater (stained brown), grey, satin and chun (pale blue). A repeat of an earlier teardrop.

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Clear and white over speckled. Clear liner.

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Great big bowl (wide angle lens distorting). Tuckers Speckled body. Stripes of Egan’s Cream and white. Should pool inside. Kept outside decoration back a couple inches from the bottom in case it drips (it will).

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Mixed clay body (grey, brown, speckled). Strokes of Alex’s Grey, dots of Egan’s VC Cream and clear. Clay bodies should go much more contrasty. Grey strip around opening.