That makes a lot of sense! I’m using Tony Beaver from Kentucky Mudworks. It’s a plastic buff cone 5-7 stoneware that’s got a bit of grog in it and a good absorption rate at cone 6.
Mug photoshoot or an excuse to play in the creek? Two things can be true 😌 #pottery #ceramics #mug #nature #creek
Just finished underglazing a springy gnome mug! 🌸 My eyes may be permanently crossed from the fine details, but I’m really happy with how it’s turned out so far. To the bisque fire we go! #ceramics #pottery #art #gnome #spring #mug
Thanks for the advice!
A greenware teapot with side handle
A greenware teapot with side handle
My very first teapot (inspired by Japanese kyusu)! It’s slowly drying now, but I’m already thinking about how I want to glaze it. #pottery #ceramics #art #teapot
Truly wonderful books!!! ❤️
A ceramic gnome with a brown-brimmed dark blue hat, a metallic gray robe, pink nose, and white beard.
A ceramic gnome with a brown-brimmed dark blue hat, a metallic gray robe, pink nose, and white beard.
A ceramic gnome with a brown-brimmed dark blue hat, a metallic gray robe, pink nose, and white beard.
A gnome for mom for Christmas 🎄 #gnome #pottery #ceramics #art
A bird’s eye view of a greenware jar with two lids
A profile view of a greenware jar.
A profile view of a bisqued jar and lid with a sculpted bird knob.
A glazed lidded jar with a sculpted bird knob. Exterior is glazed in Amaco’s Tangelo.
The life cycle of a lidded jar from greenware to glaze fire! #pottery #ceramics #art
Photo creds to @ari2077.bsky.social ❤️
An arrangement of ceramic pieces on display on a table.
Me standing with my ceramics on display
My second student art show at my local studio! We had a great turnout despite the wintry weather ❄️ #ceramics #pottery #art
Fancy, the studio assistant, weighs in on the creative process 🏺🐾 #pottery #ceramics #art #cats
33.) Davo
3.5/5 ⭐️
A short novella about a social sciences researcher and a miner who likes to wear skirts. Too short for much actual plot and for the reader to really care much about the characters or their relationship, but it was a sizzling read.
#books #gaybooks #gay #booksky📚💙
Gnome alert! #ceramics #pottery #art #gnome
32.) Something Wild & Wonderful
4.75/5 ⭐️
A quiet, gentle, and contemplative gay contemporary romance set on the PCT. If you love hiking, nature, a perfectly paced romance, and fully fleshed out characters with complex feelings and desires, this book is for you.
#gay #gaybook #booksky 📚💙 #hiking
A collection of wheel-thrown ceramic pieces.
My first student art show! Had a great time showing the pieces I made from my intermediate wheel class and being with friends and family. #pottery #ceramics #art
31.) Let Sleeping Foxes Lie
2.5/5 ⭐️
There are promising points in the sequel to Where Foxes Say Goodnight, but the flaws of the first book seem to really stand out more starkly in this one—genre indecision, shallow plot, heavy-handed characterization of the antagonists, etc. #Booksky 📚💙 #gaybooks
A mug with floral sprigs on the body and handle glazed in a mix of studio pink and clear.
A small pitcher glazed in a mix of studio green and white.
A bowl glazed with 2x coats of Amaco’s Textured Amber Brown and then 2x coats of Amaco’s Ironstone.
Another batch of #pottery out of the kiln! This time a mug, a pitcher, and a bowl. I was hoping for the mug to be a bit pinker and the bowl to be a bit more amber and green/blue, but I’m overall pretty pleased with how they turned out. The bowl’s glazes will need some more troubleshooting, though.
An enclosed form and a planter with dish
Three vases
A vase
Interior of a vase
First load of pieces from my intermediate pottery class out of the kiln! Decided to try out the studio’s glazes rather than use my own brush-on glazes for most of the pieces, and the results were interesting! #pottery #ceramics
Two greenware pitchers with handles
The pitcher handles have been handled! Now it’s on to the bisque firing when they dry out enough. #pottery #ceramics
Three bisqued vases.
A bisqued closed form with a pocked texture and a vase.
Two greenware pitchers without handles
An assortment of bisqueware and greenware made in my pottery class! Several vases, a closed form with a pocked texture, and two pitchers (currently without handles). #pottery #ceramics
30.) Where Foxes Say Goodnight
4/5 ⭐️
A cozy paranormal mystery crime romance that was cute but uncertain of what genre it wanted to be. It had ghost grandmas, gay grandsons, and rural estates. The characters were fleshed out but their relationship was insta-love. #Booksky 💙📚 #GayBooks #Gay
A small bowl with an angled foot, a small curvy vase, and a bulbous vase with a long neck
Some green and bisqueware from my intermediate #pottery class! We’ve been focusing on rims and feet and planning when pulling walls—knowing what you want the end result to be and setting that shape in the first few pulls. Much more thought than I’ve put into it than before! #ceramics
So happy to be back in the studio now that our move is done. First thing I did after getting settled was sign up for an intermediate class at a local studio. I clearly have my priorities straight. 😂 #pottery #ceramics
29.) Swordcrossed
3.5/5 ⭐️
A queer fantasy romance full of dueling and wool manufacturing. The setting was Bridgertonesque and the worldbuilding resultantly felt like a half-baked veneer of regency tropes and medievalisms at times. At other times, though, it was quite original! #Booksky 📚💙 #fantasy
28.) Young Men in Love: New Romance
4/5 ⭐️
A good sequel to the the first Young Men in Love! This is a queer romance comic anthology that’s all about (you guessed it!) young men in love. Full of pretty art and diverse stories crafted by queer artists and writers. #Booksky 📚💙 #gay #comics #queer
27.) The Scottish Boy
3/5 ⭐️
A historical gay romance between two knights. Sadly, I just didn’t vibe with it. The plot and pacing need a strong editorial hand, the characters don’t grow much by the end, and it still has a lot of holdovers from when it was fanfic before publication. #Booksky 💙📚
26.) Firelight
5/5 ⭐️
The final piece Le Guin wrote for the #Earthsea series, Firelight is a contemplative trip down memory lane for Ged, the series’ protagonist who is now at the end of his life. An appropriate end for Ged and an appropriate end for the series as a whole. #Booksky 📚💙 #fantasy
A soup mug glazed in Mayco’s Stoned Denim
A soup mug glazed in Mayco’s Stoned Denim
A bowl glazed in Mayco’s Stoned Denim
A bowl glazed in Mayco’s Stoned Denim
Last batch of glazed ware out of the kiln before a little hiatus from pottery as we move! Here’s a bowl and soup mug both glazed in Mayco’s Stoned Denim. #pottery #ceramics
Inside of a bowl glazed with Amaco Obsidian and Amaco Vert Lustre.
Profile of a bowl glazed with Amaco Obsidian and Amaco Vert Lustre.
Inside of a bowl glazed with Amaco Snow and Amaco Chun Plum.
Profile of a bowl glazed with Amaco Snow and Amaco Chun Plum.
Some bowls I got back from the kiln yesterday! I’m especially loving the black and blue one. I was hoping for something a bit more dramatic from Chun Plum on the white one, but live and learn 🤷🏼♂️ #pottery #ceramics
I’m not sure of all the specifics since I use a community kiln, but I do know the kiln is fired to cone 6 in a medium-speed firing. I don’t think they use a special cooling schedule at all, but I do know that the glaze bottle says controlled cooling schedules can help with more crystal growth.
