Green Disc Pot

Initial idea conceived on 11th April 2012...

Born today 30th May 2012 at high noon 12pm.

After 1 hour and 15 minutes.



Completed today (27th June 2012). A total of 5 hours and 20 minutes making. If I charge £25 an hour that works out at around £140. I will probably sell it for around £60.
But I do it for the love!!


26th Sept 2012

These are the pot finished the copper carbonate went brown coloured in the 1260C firing, it kind of resembles animal print. The gold lustre on the top finishes it.

I am not feeling the brown, my husband likes it, maybe it is too masculine for my pots. I love the gold, but I would like to move towards more subtle colours. Animal print is too jazzy for me, it detracts from the form. If I look at the surface in isolation and imagine it was not on my pot but on textured paper, or slowly eroding wall, it would be interesting and attractive. But in the pot it is too much.

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