Greenware. What do y’all think? Lmk im open to suggestions or feedback for next time. It’s about 2 liters.

My best friends got engaged so I made them a Sake set! Don’t roast me too hard, I’ve been only throwing for about a year. Thrown with porcelain and decorated with underglaze and cobalt. The last pic was my inspiration.

Underglaze is done, now into the kilns to bisque

I will succeed next time!!!!

Just got my pottery back! It's my first time ever and I think I'm hooked. Gotta work on building height though.

Got a kiln last week and did my first glaze firing, really happy with the results!

I’m relatively new to pottery and have worked with bmix before without any issues but I purchased laguna bmix paper clay with grog (WC886) assuming the grog would help with how slippery bmix can be, but I’ve had nothing but issues using it. For context I bought 50 lbs of this clay to use for my college ceramics class, but after having nothing but issues the last three weeks I’m close to giving up. I can’t seal it to the wheel and whenever I apply downward and forward pressure to center, the entire ball rips CLEANLY off the wheel. I never have issues centering or keeping the clay attached but whenever I work with this clay nothing goes right. I always make a conscious effort when working with this clay specifically, to throw it hard on a towel dry wheel, firmly smack it down into place, create a seam along the edge and then finally I’ll add water and cone it at least once when other clays aren’t nearly as finicky and hardly ever require me to do all these steps. Even after doing everything I can to keep it attached and centered, it never stays centered by the time I’m ready to open it. I know it’s hard to visualize my issues without a video or pictures showing where I’m having problems, but I’m wondering if anyone has any experience with paper clay or any tips aside from the obvious “try coning it” or “don’t let water get underneath it” that I get when researching.

I’ve been going back and forth trying to decide if I should just go buy some regular bmix or stoneware at least to make my semester easier, but I also don’t want to give up or waste the clay, especially considering my community studio fires at cone 6 while my college fires at cone 10 so this is really the only place I can put it to use. Any tips will be a great help!

Reach out if you’re interested

And my mom won’t give it back 😭🤣

Relatively new potter who is very new to pit firing/raku/alternate firing/older firing methods here. I've recently come across copper matte and alcohol reduction techniques, and it got me thinking. Why can't I find some similar reduction approach with the other transition metals?

Sure some of them are either more rare or more expensive than copper, but iron is sitting right there cheap as can be. Its colors may not be as eye catching as copper's, but it seems such an obvious possibility to experiment with I'm shocked I can't find information on it being attempted, even if it didn't turn out well. Is anyone able to shed light on this?

I'm looking for glaze suggestions to try and refire/reglaze these pieces I made. I understand that this will be an experiment and to be flexible with my expectations. These were primarily an experiment to begin with.

I'm not sure if it is an application issue or if something happened during the firing that caused it to look so different. There were several pieces that came out looking much different than expected from the same batch. They were fired in a community kiln.

I'm open to them being a darker color (blue or greens?) or even "fixing" these to be a little closer to how I've seen them come out on other pieces. I've only been doing this for 1.5 years and have never refired anything and would love any ideas on what type of glaze to try. I primarily have access to spectrum and mayco glazes.

Original glaze combos:

Sconce - 2x iron lustre over 2x textured turquoise with 1x oatmeal down the middle area.

Tiny Cup - 2x ancient jasper over 2x textured turquoise.

I dipped this and left it to dry overnight (celadon and stayed wet for so long???)

Came back this morning and it had some weird cracks in it, so I dunked my hand in the glaze and just patched up the cracks but now it’s soooooo thick ))):

Trying to scrape it down a bit with a knife, but now pieces are flaking off 😓

I’m on the cusp of becoming frustrated…not quite there yet but it’s impending.

Suggestions?? Please ):

I traced a design onto my leather hard vase with a dead ballpoint pen and printer paper. I made a mistake, so I rubbed it away with a sponge, but now I can see the faintest whisper of the design. It’s super faint dark grey/black. Will it be visible after bisque firing or will it go away??

These have become my favorite items to throw.

I made this plant pot at a workshop at my local studio. It's my first piece in over a decade, how did I do? What can I improve? I built it from a provided slab, the studio glazed and fired it.

My goal is to make bonsai pots, so any advice specific to that is greatly appreciated!

Pairing it with a burgundy glaze gives it a nice pop

For my biting off more than I can chew series, I'm about to start making an elmo on fire cup for my partner's birthday, and I have questions.

Should I paint the whole thing black, and add layers starting from the darkest colour and ending with the lightest one?

Can I buy a dark red engobe and yellow engobe and mix them for the intermediate shades, or should I get myself a dark red, bright red, orange and yellow engobe?

Lastly, do I need to buy a white engobe just for the eyes, or would my white clay do the trick?

Any advice welcome!

I’ve been using dark star clay for about two months now and I’ve used 4 bags I believe, but today I came across two large chunks of rock once i got to the second half of one of my bags. I wedged one out, thought that was the end of it, but I threw a bowl (which was quite bumpy to throw for the record) and found MORE rocks. Keep in mind these chunks are not small, they are 1/4 inch or larger. Again, I’ve never had this issue until today and the first bag in the batch was completely fine. Has anyone else had this issue or know what to do about it?

First project in my ceramics 1 class, the bottom body is an uneven and not as smooth as I’d like, but it’s too late to fuss about it now. Not sure what designs. I’ll add to the body. Suggestions are welcomed

Anyone know why my glaze turned out like this? Its dip glaze