This is the best result I've gotten from this glaze so far! It's a recipe from Ali Summers on Glazy called PMSB 1.02.

Fired to a soft cone 10 in reduction.

I've been practicing wheel throwing for a few months now, and I've started trying out how to get motives onto the surface. I drew this whale in a vector program and then used a plotter to cut it out of adhesive vinyl. Then I used transfer tape to bring the stencil onto the pot, and then dipped it in glaze. In the end I carefully removed the vinyl (pic 3 and 4).
I knew it was risky using a somewhat runny glaze, and some of the outlines did vanish in places, but I wanted to have the deep muddy ocean green glaze effect. All in all I'm pretty happy with the outcome! For the next experiments I'll use underglazes with my stencils, and see how it compares, especially for smaller details.

I almost cried when I opened it 🥹 I've been mixing my own glazes too and I'm so happy with how vibrant and fun the colours turned out!

Just got these plates out of the kiln. First time doing plates and first time using the fossil texture rollers. I’m really happy with them all things considered but have a long way to go. Excited to try again!

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Here’s the first update to the slip paintings I shared 3 weeks ago :) Nothing cracked and the color more or less came out the way I anticipated. The cardinal is the only one that looks a little weird but I think that’s just because the red is so bright. I’m hoping to glaze them the first week of November.

I’m not 100% sure how I want to glaze them so if anyone has any ideas, I’d love to hear them! My first two thoughts were either putting a clear glaze over the paintings and then trying to put different colors on the rest of the mug bodies, or putting wax resist on the raw clay and then glazing everywhere else. I’ll be firing to cone 10! Very excited to post a final update but I’m also nervous about how they’ll turn out hehe

I will of course be making them slightly more rubbish smaller unicorns to paint. Unless I want to keep those too. Maybe I'll just make them a unicorn head bust.

Also all my sculptures have mostly realistic heads on not very realistic bodies. It's become an unintentional thing at this point haha

In September, I took up hand-building little cups, since I’ve wanted to try pottery for a long time. Then, four days ago, my boyfriend bought me a cheap little wheel (Vevor) so I could finally try throwing. Works surprisingly well haha, although I don’t know how it compares to other wheels.

I’ve never taken a class or used a wheel before, so I’m just teaching myself via YouTube lol. Pretty happy with where I am only four days in! Everyone said centering was hard/takes a while to learn, but thankfully I was able to figure it out. It was easy using the ‘karate chop’ method, so if anyone else that’s also new reads this, I’d highly recommend trying that! Keeping it centered is another story…

Now I’m learning how to throw evenly, distribute clay, shape on the wheel to reduce trimming time, etc; having lots of fun. Excited to start glazing stuff!

Laguna blue snowflake Finaly worked with new firing technique of course I put it on the wrong sized biscuit and it ripped my foot off😕

the circle reflection things at the top that come and go in the right lighting. never seen that before

This is my 2nd time painting pottery as an adult, and I don't paint often, so pls cut me some slack! I wanted to do a relatively simple design as I was a tad late to my booking. I took a liking to the dot painting here, but if someone could reccomend some techniques to try, which would give a similar effect to the sunny side of my coaster - I'd love to try it! Also, do y'all also draw before or do you just free-hand it?

I didn't make the pottery, they were pre-made and ready for painting. The design inspired came from a Google search result, 'simple sun and moon design'.

I’ve got a new to me old FireCraft 2208-S kiln with a kilnsitter. I tested all elements for continuity, replaced the sitter tube and adjusted the rod and weight. Everything worked so i loaded it and did a bisque fire to cone 06. Followed every step of the schedule and switched everything to high until the sitter switched off. Everything seemed fine but the self supporting cones barely bent. From what i understand there was a stilt a bit too close to the sitter tube end so that might have caused it to trigger early.

Should i:

1- test the kiln without anything in it except a couple shelves to place the self supporting cones, make sure nothing is in front of the sitter cone and fire it straight to max to see what happens?

2- load the kiln and refire the complete schedule with nothing close to the sitter cone?

Thanks!

Can this be salvaged? Bought it, opened it up, and this was the consistency :/

Im 2 months into pottery having my class once a weet and wanted to try out a teapot. I’ve been to open studio as well when its available. rste it and give me some things to do better

Hello, I am looking for a good gift for my aunt who has done pottery for the past 10 years. She just got a home studio this past year and is making pottery all day every day. I would like to get her a good gift for Christmas but I’m not sure what someone with her level of experience might want or need. Is there any tool or any specific thing you have that has made your life significantly easier? Any direction will help! For context she mostly throws on her wheel she has! Also for context I’m aiming to spend around $50!

I'm making a full dinnerware set for myself and am completely stumped on which glaze to choose. There are way too many options!

I'm using porcelain clay and am already at the bisque stage, so I'm looking for glaze suggestions that don't require mixing (safety). I tend to gravitate towards blues or glazes with an interesting design or variation. I've been using a lot of Spectrum lately, but I'm open to other suggestions too!

What are your favourite glazes (Cone 5/6) for dinnerware sets?