By JDZ-Ceramic
There are two main options in how to finish the bottoms of thrown pots after they have been cut off the potter’s wheel. Which finishing technique you will use should be chosen before the pot is thrown.
Finishing the Pot Trimmed During Throwing
Pots that are thrown without excess floor, used to create a foot ring, still need some attention after they are thrown. Once the pot has been formed and trimmed on the wheel, it is cut off then left on the bat to dry until it is leather hard. When the pot can be handled without deforming, it should be lifted from the bat.
Turn the pot upside down. The bottom will show the marks of the cut-off line or wire. Brush away any crumbs of clay left over from trimming. Use either the pad of a finger or a barely moistened sponge and smooth the bottom edges and surface. Smoothing the bottom surfaces will help keep the pot from marring table surfaces that it is placed on after firing.
Finishing Trimmed Feet
Another option is to throw the pot with a deliberately thick bottom, with the intention of trimming away the excess clay when the clay is leather hard. Do as much trimming of the walls as possible while the pot is still on the wheel at the end of throwing, then cut it off. Once it is leather hard, a foot ring can be trimmed. Foot rings are often an elegant solution to the visual bottom of the pot.
How to Trim a Foot Ring
Signing or Marking Your Pot
Most potters want to identify themselves as the makers of the pots they produce. You can make your own potter’s mark from wood or bisqued clay, then impress it in the clay while it is still damp.
Pots can also be signed when they are leather hard, once the trimming and smoothing has been completed. To incise your signature or sign, use a dull pointer tool or dull pencil. Do not use a potter’s needle or other sharp tool, since the sharp cut can encourage cracking. You can also sign your pot with a brush, using stain or slip.
By JDZ-Ceramic
This slab-built pottery mug was created by KLX250
Mug
2009
KLX250 (a Pottery forum member)
Potter’s Statement: [This is] from the last “Christmas” kiln firing. Info on this site has helped to eliminate pitting and crazing issues I was having. The mug is built using a pop can wrapped in paper for a slab form.
Comments by Beth: I love the patterning on the glaze. And the idea to use a paper-wrapped pop can is great! In addition to ease-of-use for making just one mug, it would be easy to make a set of matching mugs that way, too.
By JDZ-Ceramic
Mugs, perhaps more than any other ceramic form, require a potter to fully engage in thinking about the functionality of a piece. Mugs are often in daily use and as such they must be completely comfortable to use. Does the handle fit the form, allow proper room for fingers, and have a comfortable weight and shape in the hand? Is the rim smooth and rounded, thick enough for comfort as it rests against the user’s lips?
By JDZ-Ceramic
18th. Century Chinese Porcelain Pillow With Figural Design - Master Chinese Ceramic Artist
18th. Century Chinese Porcelain Pillow With Figural Design
Master Chinese Ceramic Artist
Ceramic Art - Antique Porcelain Pillow
Price
$1,300.00
Dimensions
13.000 x 18.000 cm.
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By JDZ-Ceramic
Sian is a ceramic artist based near Chichester, West Sussex in an area of outstanding natural beauty at the base of the South Downs, producing hand thrown smoke fired ceramics.
Sian trained at the West Surrey College of Art and Design in the early eighties by Henry Hammond and Sebastian Blackie and visiting tutor Paul Soldner.
After graduating she taught ceramics part time while developing her own work, experimenting with fibres and paper pulp resulting in exhibitions throughout the UK, Hungary, Germany, Spain and North America.
Recent work has been inspired by the Sussex landscape, abstracting nature through drawing and painting, translating these qualities directly through to the work in clay.
The smoke fired ceramic vessels are hand thrown on a wheel, turned, slipped and burnished. Other pieces are hand formed. Raku glazes are applied and a smoke firing is carried out using organic materials. Various oxides are used to bring out colour on the clay surfaces. The smoke firing enhances the form producing a timeless quality. Multiple firing allows further interaction of control and the unpredictability to fuel the creative process. The smoke fired pieces take several weeks to complete due to the nature of the working stages. Each piece is unique.
It is possible to purchase the ceramic pieces directly from Sian - check out her recent and previous work here.
Visitors to studio by appointment only.
By JDZ-Ceramic
Pottery is generally considered to be containers made from clay. “Pot” is a term used for any number of container forms. Both words derive from the Old English potian, “to push”. When we consider how the potter pushes as they throw the clay on the wheel, it is easy to see how the process got its name. The term “pottery” may also be used as an adjective with some objects, such as small figurines.
In industrialized countries, modern pottery can be classified two ways. There is commercial pottery or ceramics which are produced in factories, and there is studio pottery which is produced by individual craftsmen. You may also hear of “art pottery,” which may be either produced commercially or by an individual craftsman.
By JDZ-Ceramic
What are pottery and ceramics? Is there a difference? Is everything that is made out of clay pottery? Are all ceramics made out of clay?
Pottery and ceramics have been an important part of human culture for thousands of years. From prehistoric storage jars to tiles on the space shuttles, pottery and ceramics have played a key role in innumerable human endeavors. But how do we define them?
What Are Ceramics?
Images Courtesy of Quinnums and Bernt Rostad (Flickr) and Beth Peterson
Technically, ceramics are those things made from materials which are permanently changed when heated. For example, clay has chemically-bonded water in it which will cause it to slake down (disintegrate) when a dried clay object is put in water. Once heated (fired) to between 660⁰ and 1470⁰F (350⁰ and 800⁰C), the clay is converted to ceramic and will never dissolve again.
All clay is a ceramic material, but there are other ceramic materials, as well. Glazes are also ceramic materials, because they permanently change during firing. Industrial ceramics include a range of materials such as silica carbide and zirconium oxide.
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The Centre for Visual Arts and the University of KwaZulu-Natal at the Pietermaritzburg Campus is hosting the second African Ceramics Conference September 18th - 27th. The conference will focus not only on ceramic fine arts and craft, but also on ethnology, anthropology, archaeology, and museology.
Papers presented will include “Figurative Forms and Changing Markets,” “Of Dreams, Clay and People: The Artistry of Seni Awa Camara,” “Women Potters of the Folona, Mali,” and “Ritual Vessels Amongst Some Traditional Healers in E. Mpumalanga.”
Also presented will be two films, and at least eleven different workshops, ranging from traditional forming and firing methods to firing in gas kilns. In addition, three different galleries will have ceramics exhibitions which conference attendees will be able to visit.
This sounds like a fascinating and very informative experience! You can get more information about the conference here… Follow the links on the left-hand side of the page.
By JDZ-Ceramic
Cai chaozhou Anyang is a person in charge of ceramic enterprises. In recent months, he clearly felt a lot better than the days.The beginning of this year, export ceramics industry was very concerned about him. Workshop was to start the furnace less than half capacity, the workers work on time, the famous ceramics producing area, many companies have even suspended production.
From the beginning of June, ceramics enter the traditional peak season in the export of Cai anyang workers of enterprises not only have to work overtime every night, weekends are all full of. Despite the orders than in previous years it is with small and scattered, but it has been at the top of the October.
Cai anyang described, they are now the biggest difference is the mentality. 3,4 monthս?ders, regardless of good, single bad one had no choice but to follow what are now the most choice, and this year the export value of around 78 as of previous years, but as a result of increased domestic sales efforts at the same time, it is estimated that the annual performance the same can be achieved.
In fact, the province’s ceramics business is a huge foreign trade enterprises epitome of a small group. Although the first half of Guangdong’s import and export up to 20.7% year-on-year decline in ROC optimistic people, but from a number of industries and foreign trade enterprises of all sorts of positive signs that it shows that the decline in “market” are, in fact, not small “plate” and “stock” has been showing an exciting development.
By JDZ-Ceramic
Desert Dreaming Lake Mungo
Bern Emmerichs
Glazed & painted earthenware plate
41cm diameter
The Getting of Wisdom
Bern Emmerichs
Glazed & painted earthenware plate
41cm diameter
Man about Town
Bern Emmerichs
Glazed & painted earthenware bowl
40×25cm
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