Fall Semester so far

Because I haven't updated since Blossom...

Visiting Artist Kurt Anderson's work. He's currently an artist in residence at THE Ohio State University, and came to visit us for a quick 2 days. I missed the 2nd day due to hockey travel, but saw him throw everything the first day. He's a quick worker, and does this quirky thing to make the rims of his pots ungulate. It was cool. And he's a cool guy too.

A big platter. An idea that's been with me for a while.... still working it out. Hopefully my clay body holds up through the firing.

Cups... more cups... some teacups.... some tumbler cups... yay for antique drawer pulls that make lovely stamps!

Cups with inlaid design and mugs. Still trying to work out handles... though i'm actually quite happy with the handles that are on these mugs.

The quote written on the throwing room wall. Love.



Love, from Kent, Ohio.

EDIT:
I'm not really sure how to comment so my response is...

We mix our own clay from dry. (or you can mix from slop if you want a mish mosh of everything and then some.) I use smooth white stoneware. EPK, Neph Sye, OM4 Ball, Gold Art (an Ohio white stoneware), and occasionally some free silica. It's simple enough. Although I have some issues with the plasticity of it, being raised in super forgiving boxed clays and all.

And Ethan...

I'm thinking of something translucent because of the underglaze decoration. Also, I may play around with underglaze colors. I really have no clue. I haven't thought about it a whole lot because I've been focusing on form and quality. I also haven't done any glaze testing this semester either. I want glazes that run just enough to mix with eachother, but not run off the pot and fuse to the kiln shelf. (causing much grief over grinding) Over the summer I tested a few things, including some of our class glazes from high school. Either something is off with the kilns here or I mixed them poorly because none of the class glazes came out of the kiln as they should, which was disappointing. I got good results out of a lavender glaze, a light mustard-colored matte yellow (nice glaze, but a color i would never use), a dark green with metallic spots (Val Cushing Starshine), and a few others that are not so notable. Lavender is the only one that I'm that excited about. So who knows how my cups will turn out in the long-run...