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Well we are happy to announce that we have completed our latest commission for a resort in Lizard island QLD. But that involves sanding every single base of every single vase. To minimise the risk of them scratching benches. So we decided to invest in some bat sanders from America, which arrived in … Read More “Sanding The Bottoms Of Pottery With Sanding Bats”
I wanted to challenge myself the other day and throw a charger for the first time on the Pottery wheel. Because I’m quite familiar in throwing bowls and vases, The next step was the basically try something new.
Settled on creating a charger, which was a completely different experience to throwing pla… Read More “Sometimes it just doesn’t work for ya”
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Here’s some tips for your own marbled clay creation!
1. Prepare Your Clays: Start by selecting two different clay bodies with similar moisture content for the best results.
2. Lightly Wedge Clays Together: Take… Read More “Try this next time you have some leftover clay hanging around the studio!”
1️⃣ **Choose the Right Clay**: Start with clay that has a fair bit of grog in it. Grog clay is more forgiving when it gets over-saturated with water. Plastic clays can fall apart when too wet, leaving a sloppy mess. Grog clay has more strength and can be quickly returned to a workable state without … Read More “How to Reclaim Clay from a Failed Throw and Make Another Vase!”
Here’s some tips for your own creation!
1. Prepare Your Clays: Start by selecting two different clay bodies. Ensure both clays have similar moisture content for the best results.
2. Lightly Wedge Clays Together: Take equal parts of each clay and place them together. Lightly wedge the clays by pr… Read More “I Love creating these vases!!!”
Today I’ll be walking you through the process on how I trim the bases for our vases, bowls and anything that I do on the wheel!!
Here’s a step-by-step guide to help you master this process:
1. **Secure the Pot**: Place your leather-hard vase or bowl upside down on the wheel. Use small lumps of f… Read More “Tips on trimming your basses”
This was a completely new thing I tried one afternoon while throwing, I was inspired watching Japanese potters manipulate the clay beyond what i thought was possible in wheel throwing. Inspired by there hacking and cutting techniques they used, I decided to give it a try one day and it turned out ve… Read More “This technique has changed the way I glaze ceramics”
This little vase should look good with a nice blue glaze ☺️
Some tips and thoughts on the process below:
1. Prepare Clay: Start by wedging the clay to remove air bubbles and ensure uniform consistency. If you’ve got some clay brand-new from a bag then only wedge into a ball as brand new clay normally … Read More “Peaceful little vase thrown today, using white speckle clay”
This is a large vase that I recently constructed on the wheel that I have finally gotten around to glazing!! This is a new combo that we have been working on that incorporates 4 of our in house glazes on one piece
One of the tricks when applying multiple glazes is to keep the thickness of the g… Read More “Watch me apply 4 glazes in one vase”
Well for a slightly different video today i thought id show. You a little more of the process when wheel throwing!
This is the beautiful Keanes midfire black clay and I’m using roughly about 2kgs of clay for this throw. The clay generally is a very easy clay to throw with a bit of plasticity to it. M… Read More “Throwing Day With Black Clay”