I’m really pleased how my giraffe cat turned out! So much can go wrong at each stage of making ceramics. Bonus tiger cat (love the stripes) and one of my studio cats, Monet - aka Mr. Moon.

My brand new wheel 😍

Hello! I started kinda collage today (just a night ceramics class at the local college to build my portfolio needed for an art degree)

My highschool teacher, who made me fall in love with ceramics, had a night course he really wanted me to enroll in. In high-school I felt like my skills were great! I was super proud of my work.

Well when I walked into class last night I noticed that I was the only Gen z in that room. Quite legit im the youngest person by 30 years. Completely fine! I personally fit in with the older crowd better then peers my age.

Im honestly extremely intimidated. They were popping out vases the first day while I was trying to remember how to center. (Haven't thrown in a few months)

Im extremely grateful for this opportunity and that my teacher thought I was advanced enough for this class. Im happy to work with vets who have been doing it longer then ive been ALIVE.

If anyone has any general tips on how to make my pieces better or to get over the intimidation it would be extremely helpful.

Edit: THANK YOU SO MUCH for all the advice and encouragement. Im very excited to go into class next week and start doing my own thing regardless of what my insecurities tell me. Thank you strangers

Another apple mug from my wife's workshop – this time a yellow and red combination. Red is always the trickiest to fire, you have to find that exact spot in the kiln where it actually stays red instead of turning into something else. Of course, it took some testing to get there.

I got inspired by the #avianaugust prompt list, but daily creativity prompts are a lot more doable for drawing and painting than pottery, so I only got a few done (Vermilion Flycatcher and Painted Bunting shown here. I also have a Motmot mug I'm painting now). I really like how these came out. The background glaze is Mayco's sand and sea, which is quickly becoming a favorite of mine.

Hi all, I am a college student taking some time off to save up to hopefully get to study abroad! I love ceramics and have been throwing for about 4 years now. I know there will always be more to learn and improve on, but I want to see if I could sell some work to help work towards study abroad.

The only problem is, I feel like I have no idea where to start. I have my own wheel and can fire fairly regularly; I definitely don't have enough inventory to do an in-person market, but shipping ceramics safely feels like a beast in itself, and there are so many websites you could sell on!

I would love any advice from anyone who has started to sell; there are so many potential paths I could take that it's overwhelming.

My focus was soda firing to cone 10

I want to get into using glaze bottles when decorating my pieces (those squeeze bottles with the fine metal tip).

does anyone have any tips or tricks for using them? can i put brush-on glazes/underglazes in them? do I still need to do multiple coats?

haven’t made much detailed work for a while but wanted to challenge myself! think i’m going to put a candlestick on it

Hi all, I've been meddling with polymer and air dry clay for a good 15 years now. In the last year, I've been to a couple of pottery sessions and been slab building and throwing on my miniature wheel. I adore how clay feels, and I'm finally biting the bullet and buying my first kiln! I can get my hands on a Kittec kiln, and more specifically looking at the CB 60 Plus or Double:

Now, having said all that... I've never fired a kiln myself (obviously), and I've planned up a pretty insane first project. I want to create a faux hydrangea mosaic as a backsplash of our new bathroom. I've attached what the mosaic will look like and the technical drawing of a single component.

I'm saying "faux" beacuse I'll be 3D printing "cookie-cutters" for the clay tiles - they will create 3-5mm indents to mimic the spaces between the tesserae, and I'll be filling them with grout. I'll also be splitting the technical drawing into 4 so that it fits in my kiln.

I know that I can stack the tiles vertically for the bisque fire (I will underglaze them), but then for the glaze fire, I'll need to put one tile per shelf. Considering that my shelves will be 10 mm thick, and my tiles are also 10 mm; my total kiln height is 460 mm and I'm leaving 15 mm above each tile - would that mean I can stack 13 shelves? I read you have to leave some space at the bottom and top, but 13 shelves sounds wild! I'm worried it would cause warping and cracking.

I know this must sound very naive - please bear in mind I'm a complete beginner. Looking forward to some advice!! :)

This is korea traditional pottery moonjar!

Hi! I’ve been using this glaze combo that I made for about 5 years, on my white stoneware casting slip as well as my buff stoneware (cone 6) and have never had this issue. This is the second time I’ve remade these for a client and it’s happened again.

I think it’s because one of the two layered glazes is too thick. I’ve never used specific gravity for my glazes, I just eye ball it, so I don’t have the information about the glaze thickness I wish I did. I made sure to wipe the piece down for dust ahead of glazing as well. I also It could also be that my ceramics supply store recently changed their formula for the clay I use due to sourcing problems (yall know).

Any ideas about how I can fix this for the next ones (the third ones!) I’m remaking?
Thanks!!!