Another Video: decorating a dinner plate

Below is another video at double speed. This time I'm decorating a dinner plate

Video: decorating a cup

Below is a video at double speed. In it, I've already done a line drawing in pencil and filled it entirely with black underglaze, Amaco LUG-1 Black.

You may need to pause it and let it buffer, depending on your connection speed.

can name the music in this video?

Josh Copus puggin' the local clay

Here's my studiomate, Josh Copus, after pugging what looks to be about 1200 pounds of local NC clay. This clay was excavated from a bank aside of a tobacco field. Josh has eleven dump truck loads of this stuff. He's set for a while.

A day's work. (similar pile behind him)

Josh in the clay pit

Local clay platter with silica slip and clear glaze, woodfired

Local clay bottle without slip or glaze, woodfired

HOT out of the kiln

So, I unloaded the kiln today. It was overall a nice firing. I lost two pots due to "soda drips" landing on pots. These pots are headed to Charlotte in a few weeks. The Fourth Annual Mint Museum of Art Potters Invitational is September 6th. Visit www.mintmuseum.org/pottersmarket for more information on that.

I'll need to kick it in high gear next week and make a kiln load of pots. I'd like to fire again in two weeks. One week to make, one week to decorate. I do have a head start with some pots already made. So, here's some images of the unloading. Back to the studio tomorrow!

still hot in there!

"Heinz" cup for my German studio neighbor

lots of decoration

gotta love cups!

Liked this pitcher. I don't make too many pitchers.

I think I like this handle. It feels great.

the bird drawings softened up nicely.

Ugliest kiln door ever!

Last night around 10pm, I built the ugliest kiln door ever. I really need to invest in some new soft brick. This ugly door is made of, get this... 3" soft brick, two large fiber blocks, 2.5" hard brick, soaps, splits, silicon carbide kiln shelf shards, wadding, fiber scraps, and last but not least, mud. It will work, and I probably won't purchase new bricks until after I fire the kiln one more time. I just thought you'd like to see this and get the same snicker I got.

cone 04

Finished decorating...finally

Man, my decorating takes days and days. Finally, I finished up last night. This afternoon when my wife gets home, and takes over watching our son, I'll start loading the kiln. Below are some
bone-dry pots, ready to be fired in the salt kiln.

vases with birds

grass serving platter

wren serving platter

liquor sets

new bowl form

vases