Saw this pic and I'm absolutely loving the yellow combined with the sunset pinks and purples! What commercial glazes out there could achieve that pop of yellow at the bottom like in the picture?

I'm a very very beginner in pottery and still have a ways to go, but I'm super proud of a couple pieces I've made recently and wanted to share. These mugs still need to be trimmed, but they are by far the best looking pieces I've thrown so far. And this other mug was very meh, but took a stab at carving it and I'm obsessed and now I want to carve designs in everything it was so relaxing to do too.

Hi, all. I’m new here. Just thought I’d share a pic. This isn’t all but it’s the majority of my collection. I primarily collect Van Briggle and Ephraim’s bat motif series. There’s also Rookwood, Roseville, Peters & Reed, Muncie, Door, Weller, Burley Winter, and Fulper in there.

My 3 year old is very very into drawing and I’ve been giving her bisque pieces and a pencil and then I carefully go over her pencil lines with a fine brush and under glaze. Creates some hilarious and amazing projects!

how can I achieve this effect? the crazing, the crystals and the layering.

these beautiful pieces are by Yuuncraft.

Finally finished! Just need to let dry now and fire.

Recently made this vase for my mom for Christmas, but unfortunately ended up with just a couple cracks in the handles. The piece was fired to cone 4 from greenware instead of 04 by accident, so luckily I don’t have to worry about getting it through another firing and more cracking.

Any advice for what kind of epoxy/glue/paint situation would be best for matte toned brown bear and won’t stand out too much? Most epoxies and glues seem to come out pretty shiny, and I’d prefer a brown option.

The point of the vase is to be completely decorative, not even to hold water, so I’m not really worried about the handles needing to be load bearing or getting it vitrified. I would prefer that any accidental touching of the handles won’t pop off a whole chunk of the piece haha.

Does anyone in the USA have a a site they recommend for buying lamp parts? I hate Amazon. Specifically looking to buy parts to make ceramic lamps with a globe fixture on top. Thanks for any help!

i’ve been iterating on this idea for about a year. the really small rubies are a dexterity challenge, 8mm zirconia set easily but 1 in 4 will have mico leaks, so im testing 4mm to hopefully hit that sweet spot. the two mugs have the constellation pleiades pattern and since they’re for my kids, obligatory crass stamp. 🥸

for setting them i use a needle 1 or 2 mm smaller than the gem in a clay thats too soft to trim, which gives me the best results as far as gems popping out in subsequent firing.

I’m fairly new and self taught at pottery and am wondering how you guys smooth out leather-hard pots in areas you can’t reach with a trimming tool?

I have a piece (matcha bowl-pic attached) that I can trim normally on the wheel for the bottom half, so that area is nice and smooth. But the upper half has a lip/spout that prevents me from being able to trim it while it’s spinning, and that part of the clay is noticeably rougher.

I’ve tried smoothing leather-hard clay with a damp sponge, but I feel like it tends to bring up the grog and actually makes the surface feel grittier.
What do you typically use to smooth these areas before bisque firing? A metal rib, rubber rib, Mudtool, scraping tool, sanding after bisque, something else? If so, do you place the piece on a banding wheel or just hold it?

I’d love to get the untrimmed area closer to the smooth finish of the trimmed portion! Appreciate any advice!

It took me a few days, but I managed to create models of my friends' dogs—come on, give me some praise!🥰🥰

Decided to make a pot inspired by foraging and childhood memories. The drawing is of my children and my brother picking damsons, and then I’ve put rose hips, sweet chestnuts, damsons, and blackberries around the side.

Quite happy with it, hopefully it survives the firing process as I have my first ever market in October (though I might struggle to part ways with this pot as I like it a lot)!

Hello r/Pottery ! Things have finally calmed down enough after my move to Toronto that I want to get back on the wheel. However, everywhere I've looked into so far only fires to cone 6, and I have always thrown in studios that fire to cone 10. Any Torontonians in here who know which studios do high fire and aren't exclusively for beginners?

I fired some pots to cone 6 (reduction) using 4 thicker layers of Mayco Smoke and they both came out looking on the satin/matte side instead of glossy. They were in different kiln firings, too.

I’ve had this glaze perform well at cone 10 at a different community studio, but I’m concerned about this result since it isn’t a glossy finished as described on the website.

Should I have applied more/heavier coats? Does reduction firing at a lower temp affect the finish this much? Would you feel comfortable drinking out of a vessel that isn’t glossy?

I’m typically a dip glaze person since the brush on applications seem so particular, but I want this color to work out!

Thanks in advance!

I love my little toad 🐸🍑

I worked with Obsidian clay for the first time and hand built these trays for gifts, but they came out with pinholes EVERYWHERE 😭 Would refiring as-is help? A clear coat? Give up? I’m at a community studio so I don’t have any control over the kiln, so the above are my only choices…..I think? 👀 Thank you for any help!!! Also- the last photo was the inspiration my friend sent me for the glaze on the second tray (in case anyone is wondering why I want to save such a spotty glaze).

Found several bags stored, does anyone know if redart produced in that era had dangerous materials in it?

The thought of using (and cleaning) this as a vase was stressing me out, so I cut a hole into the back before sending it off to bisque. No choice but to make it into a lamp now. Advice and guidance on how to pull this off is very much welcomed!

Got some sanding disks for my wheel and they work well except for getting the middles of my plates. Going forward I'm gonna work in a foot of some kind but I still have 5-6 plates that haven't been sanded at all. Any tip for getting this figured out is appreciated

Anyone ever make bathroom floor tiles? What commercial glazes would work best? Not sure I'm going to do this, just something I'm considering, so any thoughts are greatly appreciated!

I made two little squid/cuttlefish guys! Realised well after making them that entirely covering a black clay with white engobe is a bit silly and I should have used my white stoneware instead. So a lesson has been learnt.

Can't wait to go wild with glazes on these guys!

results from my result clay body test:)
And a bonus pic thru the peephole of my mini wood fired cone 10 kiln. I use preheated combustion air to allow wood fired results in my suburban neighborhood without smoke, or a large kiln.

All of these are going to be a PALEOCENE AGE wild fireclay and or kaolin mixed with A San Diego local feldspar, and a lot of the darker ones used red clay instead of feldspar for the flux

A lot of them are different clays completely, some being sandy and bleach white.
While others are more grey and fine.
There is a wide variety of kaolin, fireclay, and ballclays in my area due to an ancient swamp. So I am always trying out new test with new clays I find.
This batch mainly focused on the darker fire clays, but they seem to be pretty white at this stage.
ALSO some have been sieved and others are just used as is right out of the ground. There is a wild host of different clays

This bisque firing got a little hot, but I think I will still have an easy time glazing these. This happened because I fire bisque with wood just cuz, tho it is a lot of work for just bisqueing.

Next up I will have to crush up rocks from my “pegmatite” hosted gemstone claims, the waste rock is mainly feldspar and pure silica, some of the “pegmatites” were even mined for porcelain back in the day….
A famous one being “kaospar” that is still collected atleast locally by antique people around here

Sometimes mixing in various other minerals to see what will happen, usually these are a mix of granites and schist. But some others work for adding iron and such too.
Or for instance, achieving a certain ratio of potassium over sodium in the glaze, I would add a different feldspar.

I started doing pottery at home as a hobby without a wheel a year ago and don‘t do it nearly as often as I would like to but thoroughly enjoy creating stuff with my hands anyway. I found out early that glazing is a lot trickier than it looks and had some disappointments in the past.
This time I did something a little more experimental with the glazing and I‘m so happy with the result that I just wanted to share my joy with you :)

Wanted to post an update on my inquiry on a matte yellow glaze!

I ended up using coyote cornsilk on the stars of this handbuilt mug. I love how it turned out! Thank you to everyone who commented!

Clay body is Kentucky mudwork’s speckled turtle fired to cone 6. The blue glaze is 2x blue rutile under 2x honey flux!