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Art Pottery Blog – History, Marks, Buying, Selling Art Pottery
As all Ephraim Faience Pottery fans know, this art pottery company still releases its hand thrown and decorated vases and other pottery in limited edition. The photographs you see here just reinforce our appreciation of this modern art pottery line,......
Every couple of weeks, we like to take a look at the new arrivals at Just Art Pottery. You never know what treasures await you - Roseville Pottery, Rookwood Pottery, maybe a hard to find Teco Pottery vase. Greg and......
A Peek Into the Just Art Pottery Bargain Bin
Just before the holidays overwhelmed us all, we announced a fun new way to own American art pottery. The Just Art Pottery Bargain Bin has been a big success and has proven even more fun than we could have anticipated.......
The Cherub Cameo collection has often been attributed to the Roseville pottery; however, there are some collectors who believe the pattern was made by Weller or Owens. It's a beautiful line with a matte fern color base and gold leafs......
As with most American art pottery companies, Fulper Pottery had a wide assortment of wares, each with different shapes, glazes, sizes and values. One of the most significant productions from Fulper Pottery was its collection of lamps. They have remained......
Founded in 1871, Haeger Pottery remains the oldest American art pottery company. Still in business after almost 135 years, there is a rich history associated with this Illinois pottery company. What began as an effort to supply the millions of......
Josie Goes to Pot
Back from a week in Cuba. LOVED every minute though it was quite cold.Magic land. Time stopped soon after 1959.This is a REALLY GOOD Thing. ...
We are taking a little trip to Cuba. We'll be gone a week, adventuring and meeting new family (my daughter Susannah's husband's). I'm planning on taking lots of photos, hoping I get to snap images as beautiful as this (lifted from the wunderground site):Adios....
Time to dust off your fancy dress and P A R T Y... Me? I'll probably be happily tucked into bed by 10:30, dreaming of the new pots I will be making this year. H A P P Y N E ...
While you are wrapping your presents and finishing up your last minute decor you can watch this really cool little piece made by the creator of Gumby - Art Clokey. I found it most inspiring: ...
It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like....
....I'm going to make it! Christmas approaches next week. The tree is up, my presents are made - well almost, tonight is Cookie Making Saturday Eve for my daughter Susannah's cookie party tomorrow. This is fourth & clay's last weekend to be open during the Holiday open...
I had a great time last night at the first ever CAB+ (ceramic arts of Berkeley) event. People came, I sold some work but the best part for me was getting to work with the incredible John Toki, Derik Van Beers and the EB ceramic artists and friends who...
Tracey Broome
My pottery sampler class started today at the Artscenter and I am so excited about my new students. This might just be the most diverse group I have ever taught. I have a tiny little woman from Thailand named Payong who is adorable and the most excited clay student I...
Well, I liked Michael Kline's challenge over at the Sawdust and Dirt blog to make 12 of something today before noon. Wellllllll, here's how that went: I went into my studio around 9am and thought, hmmmm.....those bottles in my window would be so cool saggar fired and I could make...
I picked this book up the other day and have been enjoying it so much. If you love Earthenware it's well worth adding to your library! The photos I shot are kinda sucky, sorry, it's early morning and my house is pretty dark right now!I saw Holly Walker's work when...
Gerry and Wesley sledding again today!...
This is the road in front of our house. We have talked about what a good road it would be for sledding since we moved here five years ago. Finally got a snow worthy of trying it out. Gerry and Wes went sledding yesterday while I made cookies and soup....
Remember him? I would kill for that poncho! We have been watching Clint Eastwood movies all day. Wesley is on a Quentin Tarantino obsession right now and studying the old Clint Eastwood movies. All of them are on today, so with 6-8 inches of snow on the ground, we have...
Mountain House Studios
Here some quick photos of my last glaze testing. I solved the splotchy glaze coverage. You really need at least 3 layers of slip & glaze.The small pitchers have (colored OM4) terra sig & Stroke & Coat highlights. And the final covered jar has been fired twice so far -...
These forms are ready for me to begin their surface treatments. The small soy bottles will get some terra sig on the outer surface. After they are bisqued, I may add some Stroke & Coat color highlights. And I will just pour some clear on the inside & glaze the...
Finally, I'm seeing some evidence for all the work I've been doing in surface treatment testing -- glazes, slips & terra sigs. I've spent so many years learning about form. I am mostly self taught with a few workshops & classes -- but I haven't had much experience learning about...
I spent the morning having my car serviced. It was it's scheduled service time. There aren't many Mini dealerships in this area & it's always crowded even with an appointment. What's funny is they guarantee 90 minutes or less & I've never been there less than 3 hours. I scheduled...
Holidays, birthdays & glaze woes
Tomorrow is my husband's birthday & we started the celebration in Augusta this weekend with friends. Then yesterday my son came home & brought a friend. I glazed all day Thursday & got the kiln loaded & fired but I couldn't unload it until we returned -- boy I hate...
I did get to spend some time in the studio last week. I have a friend whose daughter wants a t-pot for her birthday next month. Since they both live far away I am taking pictures of the t-pots as they progress so they can choose. The small jars are...
A Devonshire Pottery
Well I've been a busy, busy boy, working late into the evenings.Today I got making my favourite thing - 8lb fat jugs. It felt good to be making fat, generous, earthy, country pots with plenty of grit in the clay. I made six, I'll make another six before the firing....
Evening all.A brief post as it's the middle of the night and I've worked a long, long day. I'll post pictures of new things that have been happening in the workshop, later.I've listed some pots on ebay, so please forgive me if tonight's blog post is more like an advertisement....
Tonight the curtain goes down on the pantomime for the last time and life will go back to normal. It's been good fun - a lot of hard work, but a really good giggle and I shall miss the evenings rehearsing across the road at the Methodist Chapel - not...
Well nothing much to show today, just three five pound jugs that I made on Mr Cardew's wheel.I've still some soft reclaim clay to use, so I'm making all my tapered pots first. Bellied pots are better for a bit more 'tooth' in the clay - the texture provided with...
It was another icy one this morning. The ice and snow have wrecked the track that leads to the Hollyford.This is the wintry sky yesterday evening. The light was most peculiar, everything had a lilac tinge to it as the sun went down. The hedgerows are fairly dormant at...
Saturday's panto was much better, things went much more smoothly and a full-house audience, who were up for joining in the fun, got things going with a swing. A rehearsal on Wednesday night to brush up on any mistakes, then two more nights at the weekend. It's a lot of...
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New blog for Patricia Griffin!
I have a new blog address. Please visit me at my new place and see what's new in the studio!PatriciaGriffinStudio.comThanks so much!...
I dropped off some pieces at my photographer's studio a couple of days ago in order to have professional shots of my new work. I'm so excited to see what he does. This is the "before" shot of several of my mugs... Stay tuned for the "after" shot coming soon!...
Urning a living- pots by Matthew Kennedy
Pots by Matthew KennedyI got an email today from clay artist Matthew Kennedy asking me to check out his work.Wow! Impressed with his pots, his process, his output, his marketing. This guy has got it going on!He's got two sites. One is urnnews.com, where he and other artists market their...
As I look around my studio gallery, it becomes pretty clear that I enjoy making my mark on the surface of pots. Carving. Etching. Altering.Here are a couple of little carved pots sitting on top of a case. The restaurant below my studio has an American flag hanging under the...
What a fun day in the studio!It's the last big summer weekend in Cambria and we had lots of happy visitors in town. I had a great day with sales and interesting customers. Among them was a mother and daughter pair, Roberta and Emily Feit. They had similar tastes and...
Itching to get back to the studio... Here's the current pursuit calling my name... Small bowls and vases with etchings from the "Endangered and Indigenous" series focusing on threatened plants of California's central coast....
Brampton Pottery
Today I picked up a wonderful book from the library on aquamanilia. These amazing objects were made from the 12th century through to the 15th century. Although all the vessels in the book are made of metal using the lost wax casting system there would have also been pottery aquamaniles....
Can't quite get blogger to to what I want today!!I returned to the V and A yet again the other day as I was meeting someone for lunch in China Town. It was a Saturday and to my amazement it was even busier than on the previous Sundays. It's beginning...
The snow has really persisted here and even yesterday the children were sent home from school! But never fear Santa made his way to our house! It's unheard of for any post to reach us before lunch time but Santa knocked on the door first thing in the morning. I...
Defeated - by a birds nest! I found this birds' nest in a climbing passion flower right outside our front door. I was so taken with its delicacy and intricacy that I thought I would record it. But it has proved very difficult to capture its complexity.I've also recorded a...
I have been working with the Kent clay again. These jugs are thrown from the clay with out any processing. It's got all sorts of bits in it- some of them quite large. (When they sliced the clay up at Babylon tiles they took out a lizard! That would have...
With all the pots in the ceramics gallery of the V and A I always feel like a child in a toy shop and almost want to run from one glass case to another! But this big pot attracted my attention, partly because Godstone is very near to where I...
NYT > Ceramics and Pottery
A New Jersey State Museum survey of Toshiko Takaezu’s ceramics shows how the focus of her work evolved beyond everyday items....
Humble and Rustic, Ornate and Decorative: Pottery to Ogle
An exhibition spanning 50 years of art pottery at the Newark Museum underlines the notion of ceramics as high art....
New Chinese Buyers Redefine the Market
Even though they may be unfamiliar with the finer nuances of the art they are chasing, new bidders turned recent sales of Chinese art and ceramics into unmitigated triumphs....
Porcelain and Pottery Keep Collectors Spellbound
A Bonhams sale of English pottery and porcelain demonstrated this week that ceramics is one of the few areas of the art market still immune from financial speculation....
Take a Sunrise, Sprinkle It With Dew
It is hard to remain disgruntled in a Jonathan Adler environment. Item No. 1 of his manifesto, printed right on the wall, is, “We believe that your home should make you happy.”...
Otto Heino, Ceramicist Who Elevated the Humble Pot to Art, Is Dead at 94
Mr. Heino, a driven craftsman who was said to produce up to 10,000 pieces a year, was known as a purist in his work with clay....
Bridges Pottery Blog
I was pleased with the few pieces that came out of the kiln - less a sugar bowl lid (it met the floor while I was loading up). I am especially pleased with the 14" shallow honeycomb bowl - I'm keeping this one.I will put these on etsy later, and...
I made a pit stop in the studio, and as it turns out it was highly productive. I had intended to just unload the 2 bisque kilns that I ran the day before. Instead I unloaded one kiln, and half of the other, after discovering a lot of exploded debris...
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Large Serving Dish: Before & After
Glazed and ready to go. Testing the redbrown/black.tex white on the inside of a big bowl. Glazes tend to do different things based on the angle/slope they are on. When they run inward, they tend to pool and be a little thicker so we get a different look.Sometimes it takes...
Dunting sounds like some sort of Lacrosse pass. It's not.I have a large serving dish that days after coming out of the kiln.....it's going PING...and after very careful inspection I see a tiny...
Bridges Pottery Sponsors Girls Basketball Team in Port Washington. The 3rd and 4th grade team received their shirts for the 2010 season. Very exciting. First Game is January 16th. ...
Around and About with Bulldog Pottery
Space is the boundless, three-dimensional extent in which objects and events occur and have relative position and direction.Outer space, inner space, space suit, space shuttle,space ship, space invaders, my-space, space man, space walk, space time, space station, empty space, green space, parking space, spacial distortion, space balls, blank...
Art on A Cup / The Decorated Yunomi
These images are details of Samantha's Yunomis.Searching around for different ways to decorate my pottery is still a fascinating focus that I have enjoyed since I started in clay. These glazes that Bruce and I have been working with recently have kept our attention, interest, and enthusiasm. They...
Marketing Art : Two Workshops at STARworks
I thought I would pass this on to the artists that live nearby here. See you there!There are two marketing workshops scheduled to take place at STARworks in Star, NC.Jan. 21: 6:00 pm Jan Lukens will talk about "Art as Business"Jan. 28: 6:00 pm A panel of artists...
Art on A Cup / The Decorated Yunomi
This past week we shipped our Yunomis to AKAR's Yunmoi Invitational, which opens online on March 26 and continues through April 16, 2010. Around 200 potters have been selected to send 5 Yunomi's each. We find this show always fun to participate in, and we look forward to seeing the...
Happy New Year! Take ride on the ZOOM QUILT.....
Happy New Year from us to you. This is always such an exciting time of the year. Here is a fun art trip for you and your friends to check out. Very Cool, and an exciting colloborative project that we bumped into while surfing the magic cyberspace...
Tis the Season for Extra Scooby Snacks
Seasons Greetings from all of us at Bulldog to everyone out there in cyber space and beyond. We convinced Maxwell that he looks absolutely handsome in his Santa's hat. His Great Aunt Judy supplied him with the red and white hat for the holidays. He is not sure...
Jen Mecca's Pottery Blog
I have to do a quick post. I'm trying to get my tax information in order today so we can get that out of the way.My kiln came out pretty good. I got some good information from the last bit of pots I made with the new big sprigs. Here...
As a child when the grass started peeking through the left over snow I knew that spring was on the way. This was most likely in May but here, well its the first day of February and the snow is going away. Yesturday was sunny and nice. I could hardly...
Weekend weather/splicing elements
I thought I'd start off talking business (even though this weekend has been mostly about fun)!I spent Friday putting in my new elements. While I was pinning everything in, I decided to add a few extras pins to my bottom row that was coming out of the grove. Well..you guessed...
....oh..we are hoping to get some snow this evening! Cross your fingers for us because I'm in need of some white stuff to make my winter complete!The heaters are going and I'm getting ready to go out and start the path back and forth from my studio to the kiln...
Resisting the "girly pots" use to sort of be my M.O. as you'd say. Of course I have never really been able to make a manly pot. I've tried but they always come out...well...just ugly ( I think). I do like manly pots, heavy, salt or wood fired. Of I...
Sounds to me from what I've been reading that we all are in need of a little sunshine in our lives to get us moving in our studio's. Yesterday was just that sort of day and from what I can see outside, today, at least here in the South its...
Clay Club
I would like the opinion of my pottery peers as to the food safety of the following glaze: SATIN BLACK Redart 61.38Neph. Sye. 35.00Whiting 2.76Dolomite 0.611Soda ash 0.247Cobalt carb...
February Opening Reception: "Having trouble viewing this email? Click hereNEW SPINCamille Engel Brent Funderburk Emily ReasonOpening ReceptionFriday, February 56:30-8:00 pmWe invite you to join us at River Gallery for our February Opening Reception to meet featured artists Camille Engel, Brent Funderburk, and Emily Reason.Exhibit Dates: February 1-28, 2010River Galleryart@river-gallery.com400 East...
Taking Gallery & Member submissions now!Contact Susan Filley sfilley@nc.rr.com orBarbara RichGallery Director109 E Franklin StreetChapel Hill, NC 27514919-636-4135brich@frankisart.comfor an applicationsubmissions accepted on an ongoing basis, but next jury convenes this month!Check it out:www.frankisart.com...
Here is a shino tea bowl from the latest firing. It is on Hestia clay from Highwater. This shino is mainly feldspar so don't really know if it qualifies but it does have 4.5% bentonite!HIROSHI SHINOCone 10 Reduction54.00 Nepheline Syenite ...
"Making Through Living—Living Through Making: Studio Pottery in 2010"
Making Through Living—Living Through Making:Studio Pottery in 2010"Preconference for NCECA 2010, PhiladelphiaMarch 29 and 30, Montgomery County Community College, Blue Bell, PACo-hosted by Michael Connelly and Alleghany MeadowsConference qualifies towards ACT 48 Hours.This inaugural conference at Montgomery County Community College will focus on contemporary issues in utilitarian pottery, including sustainability,...
PENN STATE SHINOCone 10 Reduction14.60 Nepheline Syenite 34.00 F-4 Feldspar29.00 Spodumene ...
Lurearts Pottery
I guess I'm not actually going to New Zealand, not really. But some of my work is! A good friend of mine moved to New Zealand and she requested some of my jewelry to leave behind with some new friends she met there. I absolutely love when...
I think that I may have shared this great ceramic blog with you before, but it is time for a reminder. I don't really make New Year's resolutions because I'm a Pisces that tends to just swim in whatever direction suits me at the moment. My mind can never settle...
Yep, It's October already and time to switch from hangin on the beach to hangin in my studio. I've been swamped with the house and studio renos that took up all Sept but I am now ready to go.The best part is that I splurged a little at Tucker's...
It is always exciting when I have clients with great taste and good ideas! Here is a custom order clock perfect for those newlyweds. Whether it is 9 am or 9pm, this clock always gives you a gentle reminder to fill you time with love!...
New Glazes - Need help naming them
So, after a full summer of glaze testing, I have come out with only two new winners and some tweaking to my old favorites. I had a lot of colors look great on those little test tiles but then look terrible once they were on a larger vertical surface....
Labor Day Hot Weekend Deals on Etsy
I am so pleased that marymary chose my shop to feature for Etsy's Labor Day Hot Weekend Deals.Before applying, I went through the whole debate in my mind: Will having a sale devalue my work? Does it make my shop look desperate for a sale, Do I look fat in...
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