Armadillo Pot

New pot started today, I will update This post with pictures of it as it grows.
Initial drawing....

One hour later.

3 hours and 40 minutes work...

7 hours


10 hours and 10 minutes. Ready to dry out and be bisque fired now.





18th of July

I spent an hour or so glazing this bad boy. Lots of layers of glazes in different shades of blue. I am sending him into the fire today for his second round with the flames!










26th September 2012. Death of a Pot!

Yuk, that is the first adjective that springs to mind. Melted volcanic glossy poo. No, no and no again, I feel no connection with this pot at all now, it is from another planet.

Just to seal its fate and to offend my even more the glaze ran off the pot and damaged the kiln shelf.

Considering how I felt about this pot when it came out of bisque, I am surprised at how disgusted I feel about it now. Like a deformed part of my own body that I am ashamed of. I made this monstrosity. But that is the nature of ceramics, some you win, many are lost. This one is lost.

What did I learn? There is always a learning point with any cock up. I learnt that dark toned glossy glazed suffocate the forms I have spent years developing. They remove any sense of elegance and femininity, and they do not fit in with my aesthetic. So there.

RIP Armadillo Pot