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24-Apr-2002
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Finished pots
Here are a few I just finished. As I mentioned before, I just started pottery this fall and have made only a few pots so I have a long way to go!
The first two are pinch pots, meaning you take a ball of clay and simply pinch or work the clay into the shape you want. Very easy and I like them. Both has two types of glaze-- one around the rim and then a lower one so when they fire the top ones runs down over the lower one.  |
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24-Apr-2002
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Re: Finished pots
These are coil pots...you roll out the clay in long snake like pieces and go "round and round". The vase shows the coils slightly flattened. The pot was smoothed out and then textured with a rock. The pot has a copper oxide finish. I'm going to do more with it, I like it alot.
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24-Apr-2002
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Re: Finished pots
The final two are slab pots. They are the hardest to make. You roll out the clay, let is set until it is "leather hard", cut the pieces to size and fuse them togther with "slip"...very wet, soft clay. Everything has to be almost perfect or they come out wierd. The small pot is the one I posted this fall that fell apart on me. I wet it really well, put it back together, and it held. It's finished with red oxide, again, I love the glaze.
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24-Apr-2002
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Re: Finished pots
Good job, Earl. I've never quite understood that fusing together part. What do you do at the corners? Are they mitered? Do you put them together and smooth the joints out with your fingers?
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25-Apr-2002
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Re: Finished pots
I really like the round pot with the copper oxide on it. This is a really nice finish for an accent planting.
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25-Apr-2002
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Re: Finished pots
I agree, Bonsaial. I want to make more like that. I like the texturing, too. The color is really more of a green but it looks blue on my screen. There is also a cobalt oxide, so I want to try that.
Tony, with quarter inch thick clay it's hard for me to miter the corners. I just butt join them and carefully smooth out the joint with my finger or a smooth knife or a piece of wood like a popsicle stick. Instead of glue, you use slip, which is real watered down clay--sort of a slurry. If you do it right, that oozes out of the joint and when you smooth it down it makes the joing invisible because all the clay fuses together. |
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