#hand building

[pansylair]

My three pieces for the fall market and exhibition my ceramics guild hosted last weekend (all sold!)

“Sweater Weather”, “South for Winter”, and “Acorn Foraging”. 💛🍂

[claypigeonpottery]

sold

more handbuilt bowls, more mice

[softmudpunk]

The First!

Beginning my journey into ceramics I made this little mug. I incorporated illustrations using sgraffito technique to draw into the slip painted onto the form.

This mug taught me about kiln shrinkage … resulting in the final thing being a tad small. Whoops.

I love it nevertheless. My very first mug!

[theartofmadeline]

laika inspired ceramic shelf

[gobbieink]

remembered i do have a few things to post so heres my heron jar i made in my handbuilding class. the long coiling part is meant to be his neck but i aint sure it executed.,. hes still cool tho i like him.

i aint even know how to tag ceramic work.,

[fatassfish]

More ceramics

[slowpotter]

Look at this !!!

I built this pomegranate salt cellar last night, and then this morning I got pretty much all of the finishing work done

Took about 4 hours, mostly doing and redoing things while I figured out how it needed to be.

I will admit the lid doesnt fit perfectly, but since it is a salt cellar I think it will be okay to have a little gap. It's definitely better than the previous jar in terms of fit.

I'm sooooo pleased with it. Hoping to glaze it red, if it survives the firing. Definitely going to fire this one unless it warps when drying (it's covered up now to slowly dry).

The only thing that im worried about is I once again trimmed the bottom too much and had to add more clay in. Since I've never fired anything I have no idea if the technique I'm using to add clay will work or not. So, that makes me quite nervous. Also the tips of the pomegranate are very delicate and I would not be surprised if they break. However, since that part will not be touching the salt, there's a lot of glues I can use to fix them if they do break. So we'll see !

But yeah. Really pleased with my hand building progress. Tbh I think I will be taking a break from the wheel for a while; it's a lot more physically demanding and I just don't enjoy it as much--possibly because it's a lot more difficult for me and hasn't been going well.