Act II

The second round of items produced some interesting results. The black/blue combo of glazes on the red clay gave this piece gave an incredible texture.

This piece produced an interesting lesson in wheel pottery: when you have completely messed up the rim of a bowl or cup you can always make it a spout and pretend that was you original intention from the start! We'll see this strategy several times in the coming weeks. The glaze combo for this piece was a bust: clear chum under a blue didn't work.

In the beginning

Welcome to our pottery blog. We started taking pottery classes in January 2007 and we hope you will watch our progress as we learn and improve. Our goal is to become proficient using the pottery wheel as well as with slab pottery.

Here are our first pieces of pottery to succesfully make it from our bags of clay into finished, glazed products. Keep in mind that the pottery looks 200% better in the digital photos than it does in person. The bowl on the left is made using gray clay and the cup on the right was made using red clay.

I found a video of someone making a nice bowl. This guy makes his bowl/vase in less than 2 minutes... it usually takes us 10 minutes to get the clay close to being centered on the wheel. Throwing pottery can be very stressful, I found a video that gives a great example of throwing pottery in less than 15 seconds.