A few recent pottery gifts (painters set, partial sushi serving set)
I have some family visiting this weekend, and I wanted to take the opportunity to send them home with things rather than risking mailing items to them.
The first is a set for a relative who has recently gotten into painting. I am so happy for her and want to show my support. I made a palette in the style that seems to be popular these days, even if it seems impractical to me 😅.
Next time I will try the more traditional shallow wells, but a few test pieces in that style felt wrong and I ended up recycling them.
I'm realizing it's really foolish to put off getting some powdered glazes for items like this. It's clearly not food safe but that's okay lol.
I also made a cup for water with divots to rest a brush on. I like the way the design turned out. I was going for Mediterranean blue and white country pottery vibes with the set.
The next set is extremely disjointed but it was an attempt at a partial sushi serving set for another relative who has started making sushi at home. I wanted to include plates but I greatly over estimated my capacity. I will try and get them done before the next visitor comes in two months. Even that might be a stretch lol.
The set includes:
- two tea cups (I made another matching set of two but they are HIDEOUS)
- what was supposed to be 4 soy sauce bowls but that I didn't give enough of a depression to, so they can hold wasabi or ginger lol
- set of four totally off theme but cute chop stick rests.
My main lesson learned is that I would like to do some test tiles to refine the glazing technique on the tea cups. The underglaze I used is extremely opaque, but when I mixed it with a white of a different brand to lighten it a bit the brush strokes were more visible (and chaotic) than I wanted.
Clays are all tuckers cone 6 stone ware, a mix of mid white (grogged) for the palette and sushi accessories and either straight up mid smooth stone speckled or whatever my recycle is rn (a mix of all their mid smooth white/stone clays lol).
Underglazes are kiwi and spectrum, and the glaze is spectrum zinc free and mid fire white. Underglaze was applied to greenware.
Bisqued at a slow cone 06 and glazed at medium cone 6, but witness cones show it exceeding cone 6.
(L to R: 7, 6, 5)
The first is a set for a relative who has recently gotten into painting. I am so happy for her and want to show my support. I made a palette in the style that seems to be popular these days, even if it seems impractical to me 😅.
Next time I will try the more traditional shallow wells, but a few test pieces in that style felt wrong and I ended up recycling them.
I'm realizing it's really foolish to put off getting some powdered glazes for items like this. It's clearly not food safe but that's okay lol.
I also made a cup for water with divots to rest a brush on. I like the way the design turned out. I was going for Mediterranean blue and white country pottery vibes with the set.
The next set is extremely disjointed but it was an attempt at a partial sushi serving set for another relative who has started making sushi at home. I wanted to include plates but I greatly over estimated my capacity. I will try and get them done before the next visitor comes in two months. Even that might be a stretch lol.
The set includes:
- two tea cups (I made another matching set of two but they are HIDEOUS)
- what was supposed to be 4 soy sauce bowls but that I didn't give enough of a depression to, so they can hold wasabi or ginger lol
- set of four totally off theme but cute chop stick rests.
My main lesson learned is that I would like to do some test tiles to refine the glazing technique on the tea cups. The underglaze I used is extremely opaque, but when I mixed it with a white of a different brand to lighten it a bit the brush strokes were more visible (and chaotic) than I wanted.
Clays are all tuckers cone 6 stone ware, a mix of mid white (grogged) for the palette and sushi accessories and either straight up mid smooth stone speckled or whatever my recycle is rn (a mix of all their mid smooth white/stone clays lol).
Underglazes are kiwi and spectrum, and the glaze is spectrum zinc free and mid fire white. Underglaze was applied to greenware.
Bisqued at a slow cone 06 and glazed at medium cone 6, but witness cones show it exceeding cone 6.
(L to R: 7, 6, 5)