#mayco

[jbbartram-illu]

Here's a little look at some of the bird-type creatures I got back from the kiln yesterday. I'm super happy with some of these glaze combos / generally into how most of these fired up! That top one is a particular triumph - it looks like it belongs in a magical swamp <3

[myuuuuuya]

Maya X Coco Snippet from fic wip

Coco knocked twice. 

It had been three days since Maya had left her room. 

Their parents said she was sick, that she'd come out when she was ready. 

Coco understood or told herself she did and between her own activities and the pile of homework waiting after school, it was easy enough to give Maya her space, especially with Mymy busy on her project with Kiki and Yana. 

But as the days stretched on, the silence behind that door gnawed at her more than she wanted to admit.

It was Friday, and their parents were leaving for the weekend soon. 

Coco decided to check on her before they left. 

Maybe this was the chance she'd been waiting for a way to bond with Maya, to help her through whatever this was. 

Maybe, if she was gentle enough, patient enough, the raven-haired girl would finally unfold a little, shed some of that quiet, anxious armor she always wore.

Coco knocked again.

 No answer. 

A flicker of worry tightened in her chest. 

What if Maya was too sick to even respond? 

She took a slow breath, silently apologizing in advance in case she was overstepping, and turned the handle.

The door creaked open, and Coco stepped inside, moving carefully, as though the room itself might startle. 

The air hit her first thick, close, and threaded with an odd, unfamiliar smell that made her nose wrinkle before she could place it.

[kvtzart]

mug galore

have been practicing throwing & experimenting with glazing

speckled olive & speckled cream are my dream combo

tourmaline didn't come out how i was hoping

next time i think i will go much thicker with the application

of course had to jump on the black walnut bandwagon

it's a beautiful glaze, and i love the combo with speckled sienna

this one was absolute glazing chaos at the end of the day

and one of my fave outcomes

and a bonus bowl

love her

[nolanfa-clayworks]

So I'm making small glaze samples, snail-shaped (the previous samples were square and flat and it did not tell me how it would behave on not-flat surfaces, and a good part of my work is very much not-flat - the glaze did not run here I'm just bad at painting precisely)

And since I didn't carve the glaze name on the sample I took pictures with the name of the glaze in it (for the close-ups I also have a readable version)

Here are: - one gray Botz glaze that I like very very much (no clue what I'll use it for but damn is it pretty), - a green glaze from Peter Lavem (I'll try to make it thicker and see how it looks but the "ancient" look is by design), - several Mayco elements glazes (I love the dark blue one), including one where I'm pretty sure the shop sent me the wrong one (I'll do one more sample with it to be sure I'm not the one who made a mistake) - and the Mayco matte glaze over two mixed Botz glazes (next I'll try without the mayco matte because I really like the blue-ish spots) and over Botz underglaze (ughhh - the underglaze is fine but I really don't like the milkiness of the matte glaze). (I can give you the specific references if someone's interested but I assumed you wouldn't be)

[revivify-inn]

Best way to test glazes

Mayco normally recommends 2 layers of each layered glaze (which is bonkers bc I was always taught max 3 layers)

This way on the inside where it's 2:2 it'll catch it when it drips and on the back you can see what it's like if it's 2:1 (tbh I'm liking the 2:1 combos better)

I'll post the glaze names later!

[kelly-clickspring]

I entered this little planter into a juried show, fingers crossed it's accepted, but my escapism art may be a bit too whimsical for the serious gallery art world 😅 wouldn't hurt my feelings if it didn't, it just helped me get out of my head for awhile.

I'm not sure if this still counts as inlay because of the way I finished it, but it was drawn by carving channels for the glazes to keep the likework tight. I have just been using stroke and coat lately because it's dependable and fun to use.

Want to play more with illustrations on pots, but I have had the worst art block. May try to do some cheap digital commissions or requests to get my gears unstuck.

[ainothefish]

Flower-shaped bowl, glazed.

[claypigeonpottery]

the cool thing about underglazes is that they can be rehydrated after they've gotten old and dried out

just crush them up and add water

because I was willing to do this, the owner of Saskatoon Clayworks gave me all the dried up underglazes (and some glazes) that he'd been given over the years. there were a lot more than this, but these are the ones I salvaged.

I still haven't rehydrated the glazes. maybe next summer. some of them are super fancy and I'm curious to see what I'll get.

I made test tiles for these and most of the underglazes worked just fine. I found some neat colours, too, here’s a sample