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Wish me luck ! Taking all this to be fired today.

#Its my first firing im very nervous #Pottery #greenware #hand building #coil building #handbuilding #stoneware

I think I need to spend a while practicing my coil shaping. Making a nice round vessel with coil + scrape outward to shape is pretty easy from a shape perspective, but I'm struggling so hard to actually control the size of the resulting vessel... Ive tried making a round mug 2 days in a row and it just ends up enourmous. I think the coils are too thick for the technique.

So i want to try

That same technique but control the size by changing coil thickness

Keeping coils thick but changing technique so that the vessel goes up rather out, which I have seen others do but have not cracked myself

Keeping coils thick but doing no scraping to shape and rather pinching instead. Need to practice compression pinching for this i would guess

I know clay softness impacts it somehow but have yet to figure out how exactly. I tried scraping upwards with a very soft clay yesterday and it went up and out so maybe a firmer clay would work better for this ? Unsure.

#Pottery #Coil building #There are so few resources for coil building compared to slab or wheel throwing #At least in english #And a lot of what ive found is for a very different more sculptural kind of work which is not very helpful #Because the process is so different than with functionalware #Unfortunately for me coiling functionalware is my favorite thing ever apparently

Stayed up til 1am building this (and then had to redo the last hour and a half of work in the morning, shockingly). Very happy with it !!!! The only thing that I'm not happy with is the rim--I've done and redone it probably 5 times now, but I struggle with rims at the best of times and it turns out it's even worse when the form is in a puki rather than a bat because then not only am I contending with my own 'can't tell whats level' and 'very shaky hands' issues but the pot also wobbles like mad on the puki when you try and spin it to cut the rim straight. All things considered I did get it better than it was initially, so it's not awful. I think I am going to try and decorate the rim to try and disguise the unevenness a bit.

Anyway, this is a bean soaking pot which is hopefully just about the right size for my small crock pot. The spout is so that I can drain the water off easily (honestly not sure how thats going to work but I think even if it's a little messy it will still be better than the mixing bowl I usually use).

Still some work to do on it, of course--need to fix the puki line (i didnt bring the starting slab up high enough so theres kind of a trench around it :/) and then polish the outside once it's dried out a little.

#coil building #Hand building #handbuilding #Stoneware #Greenware

Today my hands have finally started to understand how to work the clay. Wish I took another before shot, when the whole thing was just a round bowl but that’s probably easy to picture.

#pottery #ceramics #coil building

ive been doing a lot of pottery. I also recycled most of the stuff I made previously.

The new things are:

5 small lilypad plates (the top one is wheel thrown, the rest are coiled... I really prefer the coiled ones)

A large ladle with a hollow handle, coiled

2 big mixing/serving bowls. I could have made them a lot thinner but I am not sure that pulling everything as thin as I can is the right move... what if things collapse ? So, still figuring out how thin I should do it. But neither are that heavy, and I suppose they'll be sturdy. Both coiled

And then lastly a soap dish... this is a really rough proof of concept for a draining soap dish that drains the water back into the sink. I will hopefully remake this better. This was slab built, and I really am not enjoying that process.

The pasta board, thrown lilypad plate, and the pomegranate salt cellar are all that remain of what I've made earlier. The salt cellar will also be remade/recycled, I'm just waiting on my new clay. I want the old one to look at while I make the new one and I dont want it to crack in the meantime...

Anyway, going well. I need to think of more things to try making though.

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2 more pieces, and now I'm gonna have to place a temporary ban on more claywork, because sitting here working is getting super painful and aggravating some injuries. I think I need to start doing this in my wheelchair... it's not doable with the pottery wheel but definitely is for coil or slab building, I just haven't because I'd need to bring it all to the one table I own that is the correct height for my wheelchair, which sounds annoying to do.

Anyway, I made another lilypad plate, which is a lot thicker than the last one (which was wheel thrown) but also much neater so far. Hopefully I can thin it down once it dries a bit. I'm pretty happy with the shape--I just coiled a short vertical pot and then scraped it into a plate. Worked a lot better than I thought it would !

And then I also made a pasta board. I've been making a lot of pasta using the back of a fork, which does work, but I know they make big textured boards for that so I figured I might as well try. This one is slab built since coiling really made no sense. I have to say, I am not a fan of slab building so far. Doing the texture was very fun but the rest of it just felt like putting together flat pack furniture, which I do not enjoy. Hopefully it'll all hold together. I probably could have added more structural elements, but I was sick of rolling out slabs so I didn't.

Typical pasta boards are just flat, but I tried holding the fork flat and it was much less comfortable to use it that way, so I've got it at an angle. We'll see if it works !

Pics of the underside of both once I've trimmed them. For now they need to dry.

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