Pottery Making Notes and Sketches

This artifact contains handwritten notes and sketches detailing various pottery making techniques. It covers methods for creating cups, bowls, plates, handles, and decorative elements like slip trailing and brushwork. The notes also discuss ceramic glazing, clay types, firing processes, and include personal reflections and artistic commentary.

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Historical?Educational?

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6.21.26 I want that wall hanging bowl. The textured and wobbly.He has over the years switched to earthenware, firing lower, using oxides. "One thing I didn't think - about is that my kiln is going - to last forever" He kept burning out 2 phase and three phase power and... yeah, it's been a thing! "They're a blue collar clay" - the red clays are the most popular clays in the He says Pete Pinnell found world! They're right on They're just as durable. the surface, easy to Someone is arguing w/ him cling up. about porcelain vs earthenware - he says compression force is what matters, and changing Linda Arbuckle has a great speech only about the joys of red earthenware. "I don't use a splash guard, I think you guys are a good distance away (you should be fine)"

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Small cup - he thro opens up w/ his two thumbs! - he leaves about a half inch - krs "Bowls and plates want to happen. Cups you have to make happen." "Every brush I own is someone elses" (every studio)He likes the rubber Yand for smoothing the inside its vegan)He'll decorate on the pot W/ buttermilk thicknessHe likes the chip brush w/ pig bristles to it just leaves so transparent for w'd at the clay to show throughHe likes the vertical quick motion b/c he gets lots of interest w/ one technique: color, stripes, etc."How you store your pot will encourage what you do to it next" - he likes to alter, so he uses plastic bats to keep it wet longer.

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Vertical Cup - double thumbs again. He wants that "coved (l interior. - Uneven rims and such give him something to inspire how to decorate next. - From the wobbly cylinder, he goes right to attening:- the watter clue vessel, the thicker you want slip to be. Handy for terra sig (v dry pot to skim milk dip). - if you throw wet you may need thicker slip.MECHA TOOLS.Bowl - lower and flatter centering< Rib < Phat = soak it in water first! Makes- Finally, he thenew is some slipThe Ruffled Rim

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Plate- "You're Not gonna throw that on the bat?" - "No. I'll show you why."1.2.3.= Use the Phat Rib on the inside = back again with the brush on the inside4 "decorate"pick it up.5.- hands on the edge - fold it! "Like a taco" - pick it up - put it down. - note the final form

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Wet Chuck underlined it's just a form for trimminghe said something about taking a loupe tool and turning it "in".he finally "whale" cote it & "whale" tales so that it drains when in the dishwasher. Just one. Something for his pinky to play with he says. I ain't got time for that.Handles underlined- he rolls out cylinder - mostly he shapes in and compresses "When you score, make a mess"- its not a glue, its a catalyst for an exchange if water. - His cup is pretty stiff, and he attaches well, presses, smooths, hot pulling down, pushing into that connection. - He adds water, does the flats and the edge,s until he can make the arc. -there is no room for the hand but his going to stretch it out.

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Trim a plate - pro foam bat. - for bowls and plates. - he likes this ble his rims arent flat, and he wants em to stay that way! - he is a light trimmer, but I think he's pretty heavy. He trims inside until it starts to give.Stacking: " I do three or four thats is high as I go" (his mother in law would stack ten plates! High)."I want my pots to be all about softness or roundness" - he stamps in the midlle w/ his Roman "R" and he thinks it might help w/ S-cracks.(as opposed to hard or sharp edges)Slip Decorating - Oestreich ~ he does for dipping (as apposed to the - he thinks of dipping for solid colors (brushing he did you) - terra sig doesn't like to go over slip, so he thinks about leaving a bare area for them. - Thicker Slip holds water longer - things like handles might fall off on a dip. Again he goes w/ a thicker thinner slip. - Dip slow, disengage slow. Choices: straight down rotate

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Brush Away - dip, put it on a banding wheel — do not dally! - use bristle brushes clean between strokes. short - It pushes the Oostreich out of the way real - "I don't rush things" - no sun dry - no force dry - no fan - no heat gunPaper Cut - he likes newspaper - he then brushes. - why wait... peel it off as soon as you can.handles: - he brushed around them - too hard to futz it up. - for black slip he gues thicker ble you can't really see thru to it. "Barner black slip" Shiny - barner clay - cobalt Soda fire - nepheory-black- I like how this decoration fades into the un brushed clay body below. - another color combo: chartreuse and black and there is red clay in the brush gives a pink tint!

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Slip Trailing - gives him: color, line, texture all with one technique - He uses Porcelain for slip trailing (not Oestreich) - warm yogurt - He always screens his slip ~ its the kaolin he was consistency told. 60-80 screen. He uses brushes to push it thru. - He adds soda ash too, which deflocculates. A pinch per quart of slip.Cynthia told him "You're wearing your screens medical out w/ that bib." bulb -he's using a coral slipLisa Orr is amazing to w- he adds copper to the slip, and this migrates to the edge I t b copper to I cup of slip.Foam Finger"If you mess it and you try up to fix it immediately you'll make it worse." - let it Wait.- For cobat its Itsp to 1 cup

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- Vince Petelco wrote a whole article about terra sigilatas if you wanna get all detailed about. "Clay bodies are clay, but they've clay bodies " (ie. they got more than clay in'em)- terra sigilata -> italian seal paint, basically. -> pre glaze technology.- use natural brushes w/ Terrasig. Moppy is good. Its mostly water. - he's all about paint by numbers: three colors. - first he put his green terra sig inside the foot. - second red terra sig on the side ~ red on red is punchy. - third red inside ~ the foot. - four, bottom in red. He did like 3 coats of the red. 1 coat = sheer 3 coats = semi opaque! - he says terre sig is a little clear... you can do two different colors and they mix (blue, then white, say). - slip. terra sig catches some interactions & slip won't. (lithium

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Nuances - Sigs are sensitive and thin, they melt into the glaze - If you want bold colors use slip. - Sig is food safe, but it'll wear away more than a glazed surface (White red terra sig-probably less the cobalt and coppers!) - Slips... are brittle, they gotta be glazed. - Low firing is less shrinking, less stress. Where earthenware shines. "I don't do that pour in roll around buxiness that Cynthia Bringles does. I just pour it in, and out. Its not sexy. Its not cool. But its hot messyGlazing - he uses a really really thick clear (CM clear - low fine clay makers clear) so it brushes on real well. - he lined it first w/ a ramal glaze - he gets a lot of success out of two glases touching each other - his dots are one glaze, but the dip is another glaze."People are always talking about how messy red elays are ~ keep your white porcelain away from me. That stuff gets everywhere."Amaco and affos Wax is his go toSusan Biner covers her sculptor will cover her piece with 2 cone 10 glaze, then put come 6 glazes on top and fire to cone 6. This letsher get wonder effects you'd not expect in electricThe thing about it is... what is the thing about it?is to wit, Ronan plays with matte and shine, with terra sig next to a glaze. Jin electric.

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- he finds dots of glazes with lithium or copper in it will migrate to the edges. In an electric kiln. = terra sig erazes a tot Glazing Detail Glazing: - he puts his colored glazes on the pot - dots of whatever color. - then he waxes over the glaze. Glaze: - Usually he uses an amber celeson as the big dip - he has waxed dots on the very bottom - then brush a thick crackle glaze on the underside of the bowl Shape ONCE (fiddling equals cracking) - he wads the bottom and puts it in the kiln (the glazes are very brittle) Fine: low fire (cone 03 Alice Ballard ~ an artist to admireturquoise glaze dotsfoot dotscrackle glazeThe Kiln Box

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- his lichen glaze is a Raku glaze as well.he keeps all his buckets up on a second tier so that he doesn't hurt his back.- he lines all his work by height - and by glaze colorFinal Hoorah: clear - he puts a little glaze on the rimFiving Schedule: - welp, we're out of time!

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