More new one of a kind fiesta

Finished another piece inspired by Neil Patterson that is an upgrade to my footed genie oil lamp.  The foot is an altered thrown cone.  I have used leather stamps that I have had since high school on the foot.  They make a great detail stamp.

Craftsman House Gallery Exhibit

I am excited to announce that I have a selection of Fiesta pots exhibiting at Craftsman House Gallery in St Petersburg, FL.  Check out their website describing the event here: http://www.craftsmanhousegallery.com/events.html.  Among the other exhibitors is Neil Patterson, http://sandiandneil.com/gallery/ , who gave a workshop for our guild in February.  It is such an honor to be showing with this talented craftsman.  Unfortunately they don't have photos of the show on their website, but it appears to be a nice gallery.  I sent them cups and saucers, my new mugs, dipping bowls and cereal bowls.

Old Salem Pottery Fair

Come by for the first annual Old Salem Pottery Fair on the Square in Old Salem this Saturday.  While you're there you can go by and check out the antique slipware exhibit in their museum that will be running until the middle of August  Check out the details here:  http://www.oldsalem.org/pottery-fair-on-the-square

Hannah McAndrew & Doug Fitch

This is Doug blasting the puzzle jug, (pitcher) with a leaf burner.  The piece was slipped and decorated by Hannah.

 Just got back from a great workshop in Shelby of all places with Hannah and Doug, come over the pond to show us farmhouse pots and slipware.  They are big bloggers with Ron Filbeck and were able to work out a tour of demos in the states. [What's up with my formatting!?  Will figure it out later folks.]

pouring the slip.

Finished puzzle jug.

 I found some puzzle jugs in some books Doug had and have some ideas for one or two of my own.

Decorated puzzle jug front.

 Here Hannah is making a large platter by throwing a bottom and adding a coil for the lip.  Due to "American" clay and a pug mill that left a big air hole throughout the coil, we didn't get to see it finished, but great idea I plan to try.

This is a "jug" that Doug made with his "man decorations",(quick and simple).

 Hannah and a beautiful platter she decorated with slip bottles made from tire tubes and mechanical pencils!?

Hope to become blog friends with these great folks.  They did a great job considering we have such crappy clay over here...LOL  Their clay comes straight from the ground without drying out, so it has been seasoned for thousands of years, enabling lots of stretchability.

OOOOH another Textured Slab Pot!

Got another glaze load out of the kiln today.  Finally getting some consistent results from the adjustments I made on the L&L. This is one of the pots I made using the textured paper. 

 To get the inside pink and outside blue, I protected the "binding" with wax resist and glazed the inside with the pink, re bisque the piece and then glazed the outside.  The glaze at bisque temp crackled quite a bit when I took it out of the kiln, but enabled me to clean off the blue glaze that got on the inside of the pot easily.  After refiring, the crackling repaired itself.

I am really pleased how much detail shows with this paper.  The yellow eyelet pot detail was very faint, comparatively.

Off to Hickory tomorrow to set up for the Festival.  I seem to have collected plenty of pots, this one included.

learning curve

Hopefully everyone can read this as I made some changes and now I can't get to my page!!

Catawba Valley Pottery Show

Well the show is coming up this and I will be bringing quite a variety of my work, since I haven't had any time to make a stock of production best sellers. Hope those of you that can will come by. I kind of doubt that I will be doing the show next year.

The Stucco Guys finished the cement work and will be back in a few days to paint... just in time to get my things for the show out of the garage door before they come back.

Ilse packed up 3 orders yesterday and a big one, (6 18" boxes!), today. I started working on the large order for Mast Store, at last. At least I got started on it before I have to stop to get ready for and do the show. Never a dull or still moment here!