Jun 21, 2025
Tiny little pitcher!
I have absolutely no idea what this is good for, tbh. One serving of milk for your tea, if your mug isn't too big? Using as a vase for very small flowers? Just decoration? idk! Would love to hear if anyone has any ideas -- I use small bowls a lot, but I'm curious what people might use tiny pitchers for, if anything!
Anyway I was on a kick of making tiny things last month, so I ended up making a bunch of little bowls and jugs in both white and black clay. Expect more posts with 'em!
#birch-shark-art pots#pottery#ceramics#tiny pots#the thing about this black clay is it stains everything and gets everywhere and it's SUCH a pain to clean up#and it's pretty new at the studio and so we don't have a lot of test tiles and it's often kinda guesswork how glazes will look on it#unless you do your own test tile (this is a good habit I never do) or can look at a friend's piece that you like the look of#but also it's fun to work with and sometimes the glaze results are weird but sometimes they're SO cool#this is the same glaze I use on the outside of my fossil pots and you can see how different it looks!#(test tiles are basically little clay shapes -- not necessarily tile-shaped but often -- that you make and glaze and fire ahead of time)#(so you can see how a given glaze or glaze combo will look on a given clay body)#(the trouble is I'm a freewheeling experimenter making things up as I go)#(I'm a bad example kids don't be like me)#(anyway for all the other clays my studio has there are a bunch of existing test tiles on the wall to examine!)
