Inspirational Blog

I have been looking through different blogs to find one that was inspiring to me and made me think of more creative things to do with pottery. My favorite one I found was by Emily Murphy. It has tons of posts and a lot of interesting creative ways to glaze also. The blog is http://potteryblog.com/.

Glaze Recipe

Glaze Recipe 

Cushing Base 2 w/ cobalt carbonate: 

feldspar 350g
borate 280g 
silica 180g
barum carbonate 80g
whiting 80g
EPK 80g
Cobalt Carbonate 8g

This was the original cushing base glaze with the addition of 8 grams of cobalt carbonate:

 

Base Glaze Recipe

Glaze Recipe 

Cushing Base 2: 

feldspar 35g
borate 28g 
silica 18g
barum carbonate 8g
whiting 8g
EPK 8g 

This is my clay cup with just the base glaze with no coloring added to it:

 

Teapot sketches

Pottery Wheel

The pottery wheel has been a challenge for me ever since I tried it my sophomore year. I am supposed to make miniature cups and bowls on the pottery wheel. It started off a lot better then it did years ago when I first tried it. I was able to center the clay easily but choosing how much clay I needed was the biggest problem for me. The clay pieces are supposed to be miniature but I started off with to much clay every time. I would make nice looking cups but they would be a lot bigger then they were supposed to be. They would have all the shapes that I sketched but they were more then double the size I was supposed to make them. Overall it went a lot better then it has in the class I just have problems with making my clay pieces the right size.

Minatures sketch

Base Glaze

Glaze Recipe 

Cushing Base 2: 

feldspar 350g
borate 280g 
silica 180g
barum carbonate 80g
whiting 80g
EPK 80g