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Well, it’s been AGES since I posted here. Busy summer, lots of good stuff, a little–um–less than good stuff–life. Here are some pictures of my daughter and a friend making fairy houses. We also made this project with our class of little girls, but kids’ classes being what they are, we were too busy to [...]
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I just finished teaching three separate 6-week pottery classes. One of our favorite projects was these Piggy Banks:
The kids did a spectacular job . . . don’t you think? And some of them were very young. The boring one with the “normal” eyes is mine. I was going to teach the kids to do eyes [...]
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I’ve been doing a lot of talking lately about technical stuff. My next post will be on conducting the final glaze firing using an electric kiln, but I thought you might like to see a few photos of finished pottery for a change–get an idea of what you can expect from that glaze kiln (if [...]
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I’m constantly asked by students (most of them under the age of 12), “Are we going to paint the pottery today?” Cute, and I always hate to disappoint them, but many adults don’t know a lot more about finishing pottery than the kids do.
Pottery can certainly be painted, and many people do that–I do sometimes [...]
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This is a quick and simple idea for dressing up a little pinch pot. Once finished, your little pinch pot with its cute tripod feet can be used to hold seasoned salts or herbs at the table, candies, paper clips . . . you name it! If you make it large enough, you can use [...]
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Hi, Guys
I thought you might enjoy seeing a couple of photos of different pinch pot creations. I don’t have time to photograph steps for another How-To pinch pot post right now–I’ll try to get to it this coming week. If you want to try out any of these projects, you do need to know [...]
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One of the most basic and useful skills you can learn in working with clay is the making of pinch pots. They’re called that because you pinch them into shape. You can pinch them into all sorts of shapes, but we’re going to start out with a basic rounded little pot.
Make it easy on yourself [...]
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