You can't leave me alone for five seconds
.
With a squeeze bottle
.
What could I have been thinking
.
Not much or too much, take your pick
.
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Future salad plates freshly ribbed with Troy slip
.
Also a fired platter of similar design but an even darker body
.
I'd like some flash
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Troy usually does, but it hardly did on the platter, so maybe I'll atomize some Helmer over as well
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Three of a set of six freshly-turned bowls
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Impeachment? Congress is dead
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25th Amendment? There are only self-interested suckups in the executive
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Thanks John Roberts, for putting our very own home-grown war criminal beyond the law
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Debating if the lugs should come off
.
Firmly concluded a knob would be better than a strap for the lid, though
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Still need to trim to fit
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Funny, the proportions look too squat through a camera, just right through the eye
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A couple of pilsner mugs
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Midway through a set of four
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Don't think I'll do these again soon
.
It's hard enough throwing the narrow form
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It's a struggle to get a handle on when getting your fat mitts inside the cylinder isn't possible
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Three-piece jar today
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There are always slight imperfections to revel in
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A little more refining, then I'll throw a lid
.
Handle across the lid
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Trim
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Two lugs
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End the forever wars
.
They break people
.
And the crockery
.
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Coffee makes the world go 'round
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Now bone dry
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Lid and pourover trimmed to fit the coffeepot's gallery
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No great insights today
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Other than monotheism the result of extraordinary violence accompanying the development of the state
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Coffeepot and pourover thrown from "Bruiser"
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Still need to trim the lid and the flange on the pourover to fit the gallery
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But that needs to wait until the clay is hard leather
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You can tell which of these got the zebra treatment first
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Three layers of slip
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Troy porcelain with a rib first, Suze Lindsay black with a needle applicator next, Helmer with an atomizer last
.
More, more layering
.
No dumb Trump wars
.
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Bmix bowls slipped with Troy porcelain
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Done with white clays, gonna move to dark iron-bearing ones for the rest of this throwing cycle
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A bottle vase thrown from 6lbs/2.7kg
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It weighs about ⅔ that now
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Around ½ that after turning
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Should be quite a bit svelter at the waist when the trimming is done
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Probably side fire it, so the ash drips run horizontally
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Cobalt-free black mason stain between atomized layers of stoneware (RJ flashing) and porcelain (Helmer) slips
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Brushwork was uninspired but adequate
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I knew to stop
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There are factors enough
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Leaving room for the kiln and happy accidents
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More lb mugs today
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Handles take too much time
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If I did this for a living I'd starve
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And if we had a true democracy we'd have leaders by sortition or maybe those who wanted to lead would have to be thoroughly scourged first
.
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Handled
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Need to go over the silhouette with a straightedge
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Just a tad bumpy
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A little too narrow at the base, too
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Looks like something the pedopreznit might send to Tehran to distract from his pedopreznitting
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Next one: broader base
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Fourth and final ring on this five-section pot, thrown with 26.5 lbs/12 kg over a few days
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Trying to look past the imperfections and cramped proportions
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Liked the first one better
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Maybe handles would help
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Third section attached
Fourth will have to wait another day or two
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The one thrown last month is up on a high shelf awaiting biscuiting
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That slight bump at the rim?
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Shouldn't be a problem
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Base and first section of a multi-part pot, thrown with eight and five lbs of a white stoneware, Sheffield's Wood Light
The ring section is inverted on top of the base. That's a bubble level on top of the bat holding the ring section, to aid in making sure the parts are joined plumb
Bat is now wired off the clay ring. Uh-oh. If you look carefully at the port side silhouette, you can see some slumpage agoin' on
Back to square one. The pieces were a little too wet to work but I tried to throw them higher anyway. Mistake, obviously. I tried wiring off a few inches, but the problem was really at the join. You can see the wall gets thicker intentionally toward the foot, to insure sufficient support for the weight of future clay above. The extra is trimmed off at a later, drier "leather hard" stage. Not this one, though!
Things don't always go to plan in the studio
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Impatience is an issue
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Going fast = breaking things
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And you're back where you began
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Good thing it's just clay
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Flowers need bees
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Coffee pots need pourovers
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The smaller one still needs a trim to fit the gallery
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Have to wait until it's drier
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Otherwise it'll shrink overmuch, rattle about
.
A tolerance of a mm or two, no more
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Patience, patience
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Easy to look
.
Hard to see
.
Music a balm
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Clay a solace
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Slipped coffee carafes and a water pitcher
.
I could have practiced strokes and enzos a little more before dipping the brush in black slip
.
Anyway
.
SOTU 2nite 4 USians
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Started two coffee carafes and a pitcher/jug
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Thrown with 4, 5 and 6 lbs, respectively
.
Not done with deco on the teapots, but I ran out of colorant for a Ruggles & Rankin green slip
.
Break up DHS
.
Invoke the 25th Amendment already
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I put feet on the squat one to lift it
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Sprayed on helmer
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Next comes RJ flashing
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Might try a black slip for framing, à la Cathi Jefferson
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Tried to show you the stained glass tea leaf filter on the small job
.
Taking too much time
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Not yet happy with the spout, but the strainer between it and the body looks like a hidden stained glass window, so there's that
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Shadow line at the foot is ok, but legs maybe?
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Need to cut down the lid, do some cat licking, then slip deco
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Freshly-handled barrel mugs
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They don't look so good now, but it's just the start
.
They'll be biscuited, then some black brushwork and wax, followed by a VCAA blue or maybe oribe glaze
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Call your senators, tell them to defund ICE and CBP
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Viewed from certain angles it appears ok
.
Just like the Democratic Party
.
But in reality, it's barely acceptable
.
Just like the Democratic Party
.
I'll work with it, hope it improves
.
Just like . . . you know what, by now
.
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Sprayed a flashing slip, added some brushed mason stain (plus finger-swiped porcelain on the beer steins), then blew a different flashing slip over that
.
Say no to turning warehouses into internment camps
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A two-part section pot/moon jar
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Needs to dry some to turn it upside down to trim it, so the foot is only a little wider than the neck
.
Thrown with 13 lbs, it weighs ⅔ that now
.
Kegstand Pete was in Bath today
.
He got properly hooted
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Utensil holders
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One plain, one with doodad, two with handles so they can double as beer steins
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I'll spray them with slips, line the interiors with glaze
.
It feels like we're riding the crest of an historic wave of shit
.
Don't fall
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Future utensil holders
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Think I might pull handles for the two on the right, have them double as beer steins
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Each thrown with about a kilo of Sheffield's Wood Light
.
I used to simply enjoy throwing
.
But it's become a refuge
.
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Probably pour gold shino inside and out, as the iron deco should show through
.
I wish my hand were steadier
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But then ash and flame should make up for what the hand lacks
.
Oh yeah
.
Fuk ICE (and every other goobermint paramilitary)
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