Pottery and Ukelele Fixing

A few weeks ago I put some terracotta pieces into the Paeroa Society of Arts members exhibition 2020 to try and get myself back into the swing of things. Of all things to come home with, it was a Ukelele. I was telling one of the visitors at the exhibition that I had been trying

Making Mushrooms in 2020

Well 2020 is definitely here, with a vengeance. Enough is enough. Time for pottery=hope=happy=creative=joy=healing for the soul=reprieve from the crazy as world. Here they are, the terracotta mushrooms I am getting ready for the kiln. Amidst the chaos I don’t know when it will happen exactly, but it will! I am nothing if not determined,

Too much for me and the chooks

Thankfully it is not cold but it is raining, good for the seedlings but not the greatest for me and the chooks! The poor things have decided to gaurd the nest they made under the rose bush again, rain or not. I also gave away the rooster so the eggs won’t even be fertile, the

Super excited for tomorrow!

Am adding updates for students so that you can see the journey your creations go through, i hope you enjoy them 🙂 Tomorrow i will be doing a class for pottery, super excited. This will be my first adult class with 6 artiststs who normally use different  mediums, just a little bit daunting 🙂 I am just hoping that

A bit of colour on the wheel

Finishing off the small pots I started last week and felt like a bit of colour to brighten me up. So these ones have a bit of  white slip coloured with cobalt and red pigment stain, like an underglaze painted on at the un-fired clay stage. Left the bases clear of colour, just because I like

Lucky elephant is on duty

Loaded the kiln today, the chook feeder towered over everything else and no amount of juggling and re-arranging could allow a second shelf. So rather than waste all that space at the top of the kiln, I snuck in a broken shelf “precariously” balanced on one post!  I know it is tempting fate a bit,

Are you a potter too, can you help?

Are you a potter? Can you help me work something out? Or let me know if I am on the right track? I am starting with a terracotta that vitrifies at 1150C between cone 01 and cone 1, and a glaze I have tested before at cone 04 with colorant combinations I like so will

Not Marge Simpson anymore..

At least I hope now that my Buddha head is finished she looks less like Marge Simpson than she did before, what do you think?

Two bisque firings…

Just unloaded the second bisque and have a good little collection, feeling good, they have potential! Following this though, I am having the usual glaze freak-out!

Trying out a terracotta pierced bowl this time

Trying out a different clay this time for the bowls just to see how it behaves. Turned the foot yesterday and joined to the base, left it to set up overnight and did the first cuts today.