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Playing in the Mud: Agateware (part 2)
Clay Body: B-Mix
Throwing Time: varied
Size: varied
Movie hosted at YouTube

playing in the mud

Functional Ceramic Ware

I fell in love with clay in '07 and I intend to keep on making pieces for the rest of my life. My main intrest is functional or food safe ware; I like the idea of someone using my work more than the thought of it just sitting in a gallery. Here are some of my favorites.

neat folks

DickBlick Supplies
Ceramic Arts Daily
Asian Art Mall
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Matched & Unmatched Sets

This Way (2007)

1 teapot, 4 cups | detail
Clay Body: intro class stoneware
Glaze Fire: Reduction to cone 10
Dimensions: about 2 inches tall

A Series of Series

Agateware Experiments

--B-mix porcelain colored with various mason stains
--oxidation fired to cone 9
*Evenblue
*Stripes
*blue cup
*Chocolate and Vanilla
*Mint Chocolate
*Stuble
*Floppy
*Leftover Vase

One is the Lonliest Number...

2008

*Blush
-- salt-fired porcelain cup
*Chocobo Baby
-- oxidation fired porcelain
*Sandstone and Green Water
-- reduction fired 'Lubbock Sand' stoneware
*green and white cup
-- oxidation fired porcelain
*Like Oatmeal
-- oxidation fired porcelain
*red and white cup
-- reduction fired porcelain
*Drop Bottle
-- oxidation fired porcelain

In the Meantime

The Process

*quick-change bat
*speckly mold in B-Mix
*difficult elecrtic kiln

WIP: 4/3/08

*mason stain test tiles
*three blue agateware pieces
*agateware bowl with chopstick rest
*chocobo sketchings

Playing in the Mud Videos

Agateware

Clay Body: B-mix Porcelain
Throwing Time: varied
Dimensions: varied
YouTube links: part 1 | part 2

Fixing Broken

Clay Body: B-mix Porcelain
Assembly Time: 10-15 minutes
Dimensions: ~4" tall
>YouTube link<

Regular Porcelain Cup

Clay Body: B-mix Porcelain
Throwing Time: 7 minutes
Dimensions: ~3" tall
>YouTube link<

Personal Bests

Smallest Piece(s)

various shot glasses
B-Mix Porcelain
less than 1" tall

Largest Piece

Vessel or jar
B-Mix Porcelain
~5-6" diameter x 6-7" tall

Shortest Throwing Time

4 minutes
B-Mix Porcelain
~wobbly cup 3-4 inches tall

Most Pieces

26 in three hours
B-Mix Porcelain
8-9 pieces per hour
~7 minutes per piece