Three bowls of various sizes and heights with narrow feet, brown clay in a leather hard state

23 pounds of white clay wedged into a block

My first works in the studio for 2026:

Threw and trimmed three bowls and reclaimed 23 pounds of studio clay.

Was definitely channeling @floriangadsby.bsky.social in my attempts at making bowls

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3 cylinders pulled from clay

Now that summer craziness is over I'm back in the studio working on pottery. These are 800g and all three were 3 pulls (not pictured 3 failed attempts as well). 800g is 2x the amount of clay I was working with previously this spring when I did a similar 3 pull challenge.

I haven't watched it yet but the setup has me on edge!

Omg I feel like every other thing that comes across my phone is Brown

Rainbow heart coffee in front of a thermos of coffee

Stopped by Amici this morning and they've got some pride themed goodies from from Gem's fairy cakes, almost too pretty to eat but definitely too tasty not to!

Small matcha latte with Trix cereal on top surrounded by various pride themed stickers

Enjoyed a Trix Matcha this morning at Coffee Amici

A drank flight of sodas of different colors

Stopped by Reading Grounds to taste the rainbow, so refreshing! Definitely going to be a repeat as June heats up

You should go give Findlay Pride a follow and come see us next weekend!

SMH

But also then don't elaborate to what it is, or what you'd do, just that you're going to solicite money from strangers online

Nah, should tell them you're going full on only fans

24 pots of various sizes, shapes, and colors laid out in a row on a table

Here is all of my first pottery laid out, 3 classes, 18 weeks, 36 hours and 24 pots

Plaster slab with grey nearly liquid clay on top

Tried my hand at reclaim from the studio bin last night for the first time, checked on it this morning and was able to scrape it into a soft ball for using later, surprised it happened so fast given it was mostly liquid and had to be poured on in layers.

Great thread, also if everyone just passes along jacking the price up, especially on non-luxery/essential items, it just leads to inflation, which spawns it's own compounding issues

Clay cylinder

Clay cylinder

Broken mound of clay on a wheel

Threw pots 4-6 of the 27 tonight. 4 and 5 came out good and 5 was half an inch taller than 4, still sticking with 3 pulls. I thought they were much more even but photo makes them look very crooked so going to have to check them closer but I did keep these to practice trimming on. 6 was a loss.

Collage photo of three clay pots the first collapsed on the bathroom, the second very short, torn on the top with straight walls and last with an uneven top with slightly expanded top

Cross sections of two clay pots

I wasn't able to fit all the wedged clay back into the bucket to store it so started early on my first challenge for myself of just throwing all these balls of clay, giving myself three pills and seeing how I do over time.

I was not very successful for this first go but I'll get better

Collage photo of clay in rough balls and wedged into cylinders

I also spent some time wedging up the first clay I bought for myself (Standard Clay 760). I specifically picked this clay because it contains grog and is a quality I was interested in trying to throw with.

Collage photo of shelving with various pottery making supplies and buckets with the buckets removed in one photo to show what's behind them

I spent the rest of the weekend setting up my studio space; we all get a set number of shelves, fairly happy with my setup but I'm sure as I use it I'll want to change it up

This weekend was my first weekend at the studio and it started with the yearly studio clean which was a nice chance to get to meet the other studio members.

Needed this

Various pots with pale pink rims

Tonight was the last night of pottery class but my first night of being a studio member!

Tonight we did under glazing, only some of my stuff from over the weeks was ready but you can see it here. Ultimately fire with red rims matching other dishware.

Tank a GDR Alum

Merle Great Dane laying on top of its owner

The skills I was practicing tonight were inspired by @floriangadsby.bsky.social whose YouTube videos I've been watching

Two freshly thrown pots a tall pot with a twisted neck and a shorter pot with a narrowed opening

Twist pot from above showing the folds forming a square opening

Pottery class update, didn't keep anything from last week but tonight tried some new skills trying to make water carafe with a cup lid, good practice at the skills just need to get the size, kept one of the practices that collapsed because it ended up looking really neat

I will not be accepting alternatives to this version going forward

Just put it on my calendar!

And if you call birth right citizenship into question it doesn't matter if you even have a US Passport on your person, they could do the same thing to you, these are the thoughts keeping me up at night and it's horrifying to start to see them happening in the daylight