Clay Flambé
Minter of NFPs (non-fungible pots)
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Wood-fired ceramics, mostly
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Mushie pics, in season
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Disobeying in advance
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Here to heckle coup plotters and collaborators
- Currently turning a set of six, make it five, identical bowls . Found that wayward bandaid . #pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #studioceramics #anagama #noborigama #woodfire
- Yet another bottle destined for side-firing in the anagama chamber . #pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #studioceramics #anagama #noborigama #woodfire
- A few pots, drying to bone . #pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #studioceramics #anagama #noborigama #woodfire
- Just another section pot . #pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #studioceramics #anagama #noborigama #woodfire
- Q: Why wheelwork? . A: For sanity . The world is more crazed than a fishscale glaze . The Soviets pathologized dissidents and had them committed, when they weren't labeling them criminals and throwing them in jail or simply murdering them . Call things by their real names . (More in Alt) . #ceramics
- A bottle, stretched upwards further than the last . That one had a more pleasing profile . I got a better lift this time, but squandered it by necking in with too much clay above . Had to cut the finish down . #pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #studioceramics #anagama #noborigama #woodfire
- Mugs got some slip and deco . Handle tunnel just because . #pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #studioceramics #anagama #noborigama #woodfire
- Muggos handled . #pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #studioceramics #anagama #noborigama #woodfire
- Turned/trimmed . Then sprayed with helmer slip . Will side fire on shells . #pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #studioceramics #anagama #noborigama #woodfire
- More mug blanks . The only problem with making mugs: handles . Doing them right takes time . #pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #studioceramics #anagama #noborigama #woodfire
- Gotta bottle up n go . #pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #studioceramics #anagama #noborigama #woodfire
- Proof that clay shrinks a little, when it loses mechanical water . Two small pots, thrown with 3 lbs/1.4 kg each . The one on the left has gone through biscuit . The one on the right came off the wheel a moment ago . #pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #studioceramics #anagama #noborigama #woodfire
- Upgefugged em, pretty much . #pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #studioceramics #anagama #noborigama #woodfire
- Six handles for six mugs . I'll spray slip over them tomorrow . #pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #studioceramics #anagama #noborigama #woodfire
- One nice thing about a straight-walled cylinder . You don't have to spend more than a few moments turning the foot . On to pulling handles . #pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #studioceramics #anagama #noborigama #woodfire
- Caught a candid moment between two fairly weighty pots, as is their conversation . Why is it that they look so much more themselves in the company of other pots . The weighty convo? . Firing regimes, of course . #pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #studioceramics #anagama #noborigama #woodfire
- Turn the feet, then pull handles . Deco after, maybe . #pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #studioceramics #anagama #noborigama #woodfire
- Mugs . KISS method . #pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #studioceramics #anagama #noborigama #woodfire
- Freshly slip-wrapped pot . #pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #studioceramics #anagama #noborigama #woodfire
- Gear shift . Came back from a May Day protest at the state capitol to unload biscuit . Pleased--no cracked plates . #pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #studioceramics #anagama #noborigama #woodfire
- Signs from today's May Day protest at the state capitol in Augusta, ME . Flood the zone with people asserting their rights . #coup #softcoup #selfcoup #itsacoup
- The offensive eyesore on Route 1 in Woolwich, Maine has been improved . Interesting . It's already been like this for weeks, and the Trumpy landowner hasn't taken it down . Change of heart? . You can see that "TRUMP" and "MAGA" have been obliterated . If only . #coup #softcoup #selfcoup #itsacoup
- Decided to add some ridges . Then took most of them off . I'll let it firm up, turn the bottom, then add slip . #pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #studioceramics #anagama #noborigama #woodfire
- Not enough time to finish before going up to the Waldo for a discussion with Ben Carter Hett . Jordan Wood, who is running to unseat Susan Collins, did the intro . "25-Years-w/o-a-Town-Hall" Susan, also invited, didn't show . #pottery #ceramics #studioceramics #woodfire #anagama #noborigama
- Decided to slip the section pot I've been working on . Mainly because the silhouette was meh . Imperfections become hard to see when the eye is drawn away by the slip . Once dry, I'll think about marks and ears . #pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #studioceramics #anagama #noborigama #woodfire
- Now for some ears and a mark or two . #pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #studioceramics #anagama #noborigama #woodfire
- Still have to work on the silhouette, but it's together . #pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #studioceramics #anagama #noborigama #woodfire
- Section pot, before assembly . I'll let them dry some, put them together tonight, if firm enough . If not, in the morning . Normally, the bottom starts out with a flowerpot silhouette . Because sturdier . And-- . #pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #studioceramics #anagama #noborigama #woodfire
- A better look at that small jar I'd like to recreate with at least a 25 lb bag of clay . #pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #studioceramics #anagama #noborigama #woodfire
- You ok? . Got it handled . #pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #studioceramics #anagama #noborigama #woodfire
- Simple silhouettes are usually best . Now to blow it up 10x . #pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #studioceramics #anagama #noborigama #woodfire
- Handled a vase last night . Crtical left eye say: too large by half, and what's with the Modigliani neck . Unimaginative right eye say: make another on the other side, voila, stylized heart . Brain say: shuddup, get some shuteye, wait for morning . #pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery #woodfire
