#No pottery wheel

[imalsorettish]

Ive been processing materials all week trying to make clay. Heres how it went, ill add to this as the days go by. this is just a recap

Gathered clay from my folks backyard. The soil there has always been shit to grow things in because its so high in clay. And the clay sits directly at the surface as well, its not just a foot down or anything. the whole fucking thing is clay. Ive tried to do this once when i was much younger, less even paced, and far more impulsive. It wasnt successful for a number of reasons.

- Got the material wet before i could even attempt to refine it down to just clay, which then meant id have to pick thru sludge with my hands to remove rocks and other debris.

- I decided to let the bucket sit to dry out, and then i never picked it up again.

- Straight up didnt know what i was doing. Well, i knew the essentials. It was obvious we had clay. I knew it had to be wet. It occurs to me now that i might have had an easy time recogbizing what was there and what to do because my grest grandparents were potters. My Mémé (Great grandma, ik it says meme. whats truly hilarious is she married a guy called pepe.) was a BITTER and mean woman. She and my grandmother would let me play with clay while i visited them, but i dont have good memories of this. I didnt investigate the craft due to the discouragement i got from them both. i found it intensely frustrating and it really clashed w my adhd.

- Clay takes a LOT of patience to work with. Even more to source it yourself and fiddle with the consistencies and ratios so u can manipulate into an actual piece, and EVEN THEN its not guaranteed that it will work well at ALL. Pieces often crack, dry incorrectly, shrink up, and even explode esp in the kiln. I do not nor have ever had a pottery wheel or a kiln. My only goal to satisfy doing this, then, was just to make clay and do nothing with it at all. Just to try it, see what my capabilities were, etc. There was absolutely no plan.

Since then, I found myself thinking about clay periodically. Every few months or so id return back only to the idea, and then brush it off. But ive never quite shaken it. I was 19 then. I turn 24 this march. Its been 5 years. So im trying it again, because i want to, and because i found pottery that finally interested me and i think would be fun and challenging to make.

[mrslantsov13]

Feels weird to be sharing my own work instead of just reblogging other people but I made these

Find my pottery at instagram.com/ceramicas_lucerito

[claypigeonpottery]

super happy with how this commission came out. it’s pomegranate, hyssop, mallow and apricot.

[funzos]

Kitty pitcher made last year ✨

[wingedtrumpet]

New mugs and plates! Lots of successes and failures (the white glaze hates me)

Buy here!

[avocadolaw]

Skyphos number two! Inspired by the very talented @hellenhighwater ‘s Minotaur sculpture, a painting by Flandrin, a sculpture by Paul Cabet, and a very handsome charolais bull from Google images.

Other skyphos here

[furiouskettle]

i dont know a thing about babies but i suspect there might be something wrong with it if it feels like dough

[crashpixiepotter]

I’m so thrilled with how my Tress of the Emerald Sea cup came out! I did a photoshoot for it.

[smallclaymug]

I went through a phase during my second wheel-throwing class where all I wanted to do was sculpt tiny animals and use them as jar knobs. I'm actually pretty proud of this hawk jar that I made for my dad.

Fall 2022

[imalsorettish]

Not sure if these count as schematics. im assuming schematics need numbers.

[Image desc: Concept art of a DIY pottery wheel with no electricity. It uses a pedal from a grinding stone to turn a cog that catches on the pottery wheel. The drawings have two different options: pegs on both the cog and the wheel so they connect, or slanted divots on the underside of the wheel so pegs could push them forward one direcion. the divots are angled to act as ramps so that the pegs can slide under them. It would also brake if turned the opposite way. End desc.]

[pizzaqueen]

After Steve sees Ghost, he decides to take up pottery. Eddie loves watching him because Steve always wears these old, ragged jeans, and often doesn't bother with a shirt, and he looks more hot covered in clay than anyone has a right to be. Also, he has the most beautiful hands Eddie's ever seen and he's still obsessed with them and watching them make something is hypnotic

(Eddie sometimes decides to 'help' like Patrick Swayze does. It rarely ends with any pottery actually being made)

[laddess-865]

I have created orb

[claypigeonpottery]

sold

[diabolicjoy]

they're playing together

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[ID: a gif with four images of a white ceramic bowl with brown freckles rotating on a loop: there's a puppy, a lamb, a bunny, and a kitten painted in cobalt blue around the bowl with four hearts between each of them, so the rotating gif makes it look like they're running in circles. the background of the images was edited white. End ID]

[wingedtrumpet]

Trout bowl got fired! And salmon bowl!