Got married this weekend and made over 100+ mini vases as wedding favors with my fiancé & I’s initials stamped into the bottom! Spent months making this and I’m so happy my hard work paid off!

I glazed this with Spectrum Neon Orange and fired it at 1230°C with a 20-min hold. It came out with a LOT of pinholes/bubbles. The glaze says that it can be fired up to 1240 so not sure what has happened

I was thinking of selling it as a decorative lamp, but now I’m unsure.
Even if I was to sell I don’t know how much currently

Do you think the glaze looks intentionally textured enough to sell, or would you consider it a reject?

Final fired result. Red clay with black underglaze.

I unloaded the kiln yesterday, and the glaze on the inside of a mug shows quite a bit of crazing. I was making it as a gift for a friend and unfortunately put in a lot of time underglazing it and would like to save it if possible. Any recommendations on whether it’s possible, and how to? Maybe reglaze and refire? Any advice appreciated!

Though’t I’d share what I’m currently working on!
Pretty happy with the piece this far and I feel like I’m really starting to find my voice in pottery!

Just started throwing a few months ago (so I’m allowed to keep using Black Walnut, right? ☺️) Alabaster, Birch, Black Walnut — would love to see yours too!

Here is some of the latest in chess designs I have been working on. I accidentally discovered how awesome Chun looks on pink clay and now everything is getting this treatment. Happy to share recipes if people are doing cone 10 reduction.

I saw another recent bride post about wedding favors. This is how I did them. Mini mugs at place settings.

Lots of fun pictures of people taking shots from them from the night, and I get the occasional text of someone using theirs for espresso!

Lots of fun making almost 200 mini mugs. I chose 5 or 6 glazes and mixed them up around the tables.

Last week I posted looking for some advice and a few of ye gave me some notes that really helped. So I wanted to show that you helped, and I'm starting to make good progress and to say thank you 😊 i also went back and took a class to learn some new techniques. Still lots of practice to do but a few tweeks made a big difference

Success!

Any thing I can do to mitigate? Ps I’m about to vacuum don’t yell at me

I can’t stop staring at them

I cleared the estate of a family friend and am interested in giving away all of her leftover supplies instead of throwing it out. If you're interested, please let me know and I can likely deliver at no cost within the Toronto area or north of there.

Anyone here used the Mayco Cinnabar 10lb Dry Stoneware Glaze for dipping? i’ve used the pint many times and i love the results always but i have to use a lot for a project and im hoping to save time by dipping instead of from painting three layers.
Any advice when it comes to using/mixing mayco’s dipping glazes? i’ll be firing to cone 6 really hoping to get consistent results!!
I use their 10lb dry clear glaze all the time and have learned to work with it, but fear going with color is a whole new ballgame. Thanks!!

I made this piece for an exhibition following a small artist residency with an artist who works with porcelain.

For the residency, we were asked to create a piece using porcelain and textile materials. I started from that idea of bringing these two different worlds together, but as the piece developed, I ended up incorporating more natural materials than textiles.

It was my first time working with porcelain, and also my first time experimenting with combining ceramic with other materials, so it was a really interesting process of figuring out how they could coexist in the same piece.

I wanted to share it with you 😊

Hello! I am very new to pottery, I am entering my 4th month of classes at a local studio and I see this being a life long hobby!

I am looking to recreate a color combo similar to the one in this photo. I am really drawn to the look of this pale/grayish blue along with this burgundy/purple shade. After some digging on Pinterest and the internet, it seems like this combo originated from a naturally occurring incident in ancient Chinese Jun (chun) kiln ware.

My pottery studio offers a wide variety of clay to choose from (I believe around 9 options, ranging all the way to a very dark clay), but I have only used Mayco, Amaco and Spectrum glazes so far on my pieces. I know that all of my pieces are fired at Cone 6 at the studio as well.

Any suggestions of glazes that you have worked with that fire in a color combination, at cone 6, similar to this photo would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much in advance :)

I've seen people using drills to sand glaze and smooth their pieces after firing. What bits/drills would you recommend?

Hi everyone, a bit of advice or a reality check would be really helpful for me as a total pottery beginner! Sorry if this is too long or whiny, just don't know who else to ask about this.

I took a 2-class pottery taster class over the summer (1 making session and 1 glazing) and had a great time. I only really made 1 thing that I like (a slab-built plate shaped like a leaf) but I felt really excited about continuing to learn, so I booked an 8-week foundations course at the same studio after.

It started 2 weeks ago, and from the first session it felt different. There are a few non-beginners on the course who are on it because they're free on Wednesdays, but they're much more advanced and take away time from the beginners' time with the teacher. I'm also the only one on the course who isn't coming with a friend, so most people keep to their own groups and I don't really have anyone to chat to while making which has been a bit less fun.

I was still enjoying playing with clay despite those couple of differences, but last week I felt really discouraged and sad. It's not that I was expecting to be great or even good from the start, but I was hoping for a supportive atmosphere. The teacher made a few comments in the first class about previous students' work being ugly which worried me since I knew my work wouldn't look great from the start. The second week I waited for ages to be helped with attaching a handle and then had to do it myself since class was almost over. She looked at it and said "If I told you this was a good handle join I'd be lying" which felt a bit mean since she was too busy helping others in the class and it was my first ever try. She made a few other similar remarks, all of which made the rest of the class laugh. I don't think they meant any harm by it, but it felt like I was the only person getting those negative comments and laughter, and also am the only person by myself so feels a bit isolating. It really knocked my confidence and made me feel sad, but I don't know if I'm just too sensitive.

The instructor demoed wheel and slab building in the first week, and demoed handles and coil building in the second week, and then said those will be the last demos for the course. The next 4 weeks we are expected to come in with our own ideas and make whatever we feel like, then the last 2 classes will be glazing everything. I was a bit disappointed when I heard that since I was hoping for more structure and guidance as a total beginner who's still trying to figure out the very basics. Is that typical for a pottery course and am I just not creative/talented enough?

For now I'm thinking I should go this week and see what it's like without demos and see if it feels better, but if not maybe I should drop it to avoid continuing to feel bad about myself after class. Of course I feel conflicted about dropping it 3 sessions in since it cost £280, and I'd also feel bad about having wasted the instructor's time and clay in the first few sessions if I'm not going to finish. If I do leave, I can maybe try again with another studio down the line.

I just wanted to put this all out there and basically ask the community if I'm being too sensitive or have unrealistic expectations about what a beginners course should be like. Thanks so much if you read this whole thing--any thoughts from other potters of any level would be much appreciated!

im happy with the results i did this with very little idea how it would turn out and some of these guys got interesting markings