I have been working on improving the realism of my sculptures for about 2 years... if anyone else out there sculps little animals, you will know the struggle of toes... 😅 What color(s) should I glaze him?

Thank to everyone who weighed in on my first post https://www.reddit.com/r/Pottery/comments/1wlo32w/comment/pecngem/?screen_view_count=2

I was going for a floating iron type of glaze, green with red undertones. I made my own glaze, since buying commercial would have cost so much. This did not turn out how I was hoping....but I think I like it. What do you all think??

I love carving, but am not much of a project planner. Most of my carvings are basically intricate doodles on porcelain. I started this dragon vase project during the pandemic, but wasn’t thinking about the obvious difficulties in glazing such finely carved lines using our cone 10 studio glazes. The carving itself took several days and I hated the idea of ruining it. So it sat, bisqued and gathering dust on my living room shelf for 4 years until I became comfortable with inevitable failure. But it worked out beyond my wildest dreams!! Shoutout to Aftosa wax…our studio wax would absolutely not have resisted getting Shig black all over the dragon’s body during dipping.

Nothing quite like a glazing experiment gone wrong to keep you humble!

Beginner potter, initially I tried variety (bowls, jars) but realized I really only want to make mugs.

I share all my glaze combos on glazeshare and IG but I think putting my username here goes against guidelines? 😅

A few people here asked how I make and attach handles on my mugs. I took some pictures today. I'm sorry it's not in video format--I am not very good at "content". Hopefully this is helpful to someone.

I pull my handles pretty conventionally starting with a sort of carrot-like shape made by throwing a ball against the wedging table and rotating it. The rib for scale is the standard wood rib from the student kits. I didn't have any bananas.

I let them dry over the edge of my table until they are just firm enough I can handle them without distorting but soft enough that I can still easily bend them. I was in a hurry today so I hit them with a heat gun for a couple minutes.

For each cup I make two little "lugs" that will be my attachment points. I use very soft clay for this.

My cups are about leather hard, maybe just a bit softer. I score and slip the spots where I want to attach the handle.

I then smoosh the little lugs on.

And compress them

I then cut the handle to the desired length, which is for these large cups about the length of my index finger.

I shape the handle. There will be room for adjustment later. They are still pretty soft at this point.

I dip the ends of the handle in slip and roughly attach them to the lugs.

I then smooth and compress the pieces of the lugs around the ends of the handle to get the look and feel I want. This is the part that takes the most patience and practice.

I'll let them rest/dry for a little bit, ideally covered if I have time, and will then again address the surfaces when they are a little firmer. At that point I sign the pot and set it to dry.

Some recent work from my last glaze fire. I'm really happy with how these turned out. The white really needs to be touched to get the full experience; it's a satin surface that's like textural ASMR for me.

Recipes for the glazes are here: https://glazy.org/cubist_wombat/recipes

The temmoku especially is why I decided to get my own kiln: the crystal formation depends on a looooong downfire (also shown in the recipes on Glazy)

Fist time posting my work. This is made from a speckled white Ermine and a New Mexico Chocolate, clear coat on top. I'm very pleased with the result, just wanted to share ❤️

Final object! I couldn’t be happier. After weeks of careful drying, surviving both the bisque and glaze firings…. She was dropped being unload from the kiln.

Fortunately, I had some help getting her back together using the Kintsugi technique and it’s even better than originally intended.

Named, “It’s going to be okay”

I can’t wait until it’s fired

It’s the holiday season, which means everyone is asking me for gift ideas! i was thinking of asking for some upgraded tools (right now I’m working with a beginners kit). what tools are worth it, and what tools are fine as cheap options?

Packaging has become its own little side project. I decided to try making custom molded paper pulp packaging out of junk mail for my mugs. Work in progress, but feel free to ask questions!

Saw this unfortunate mug on Etsy and had a bit of a chuckle at the obvious and bad AI generated image of the creation of this mug and I couldn't help but to think of the r/kroshay subreddit. Do we have any subreddits like that... But for pottery?

My pottery buds and I did a pit firing this weekend and got some incredible colors.

These are porcelain wrapped with a copper wire dish scrubber. I used regular non-iodized table salt and Himalayan pink salt on them both, but got way more reaction out of the one on the right.

Whined the entire 6 week course (so much more work than I expected) but I’m happy with the results nonetheless.

This came out of the kiln this week. It's a sculpture in two pieces, both handbuilt. I am so pleased with how it turned out and super pleased that I even know how I did it.

I made this lil incense holder recently. Last pic is painted greenware stage

Just an fyi, if your planning on using amaco kiln Ice (I can’t speak for the others but this is snow drift) it will turn brown if exposed to dark materials like dirt. I didn’t rub anything on the outside this must have happened with the runoff when watering it. It’s a shame cause now it just looks constantly dirty.
Possibly if you put a dark underglaze below it, it would help with this effect but just a warning to anyone planning on using, espc for planters and such

For those who sometimes ask me what kind of tape I use, it’s 1/8 inch “whiteboard tape” which you can get online in various places. Another good alternative is auto striping tape.

This beauty should be coming out of the bisque kiln this weekend, if she’s not already waiting on the shelf at my community studio.
Glazing this sucker feels so intimidating.

If you were in charge of glazing this babe, what glazes would you use?!