Some pots for the new gallery

Dale Cochoy wrote:Alexandra,
I just noticed you were from Athens. ... ...

Glad to hear you know capital city of my country, Dale!
Yes, old famous "Zonar's" has been gone just like a lot of old and dear places in Athens, unfortunately.... and of course in other cities, too.
Some of the streets of the neighbourhood below Acropolis, i.e. Plaka, retain the same romantic appearance. Anyway, time goes on and lots of new Cafés, bars etc have overflown the place around.... changing dramaticaly the local accent...
Thanks for your post!

A few pics from my booth at the Asheville, North Carolina show. My last show of the season.

What a display! Now that there's is some scale we can see how big the pots are, they always look smaller in individual photos.

Hi Dale,

This is a very nice presentation of your pots, I hope you have sold the most.
Now you can celebrate Thanksgiving for the pot.

Best regards
Peter
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Here is something not everyone gets to see or even realizes needs to happen.

I'm building a large commissioned oval pot. Here it is about 25" long and roughly 45 pounds of clay at this point. My wife usually helps me flip pots during construction steps but since she had back surgery I had my friend Matt come over today and help me flip it several times during construction. It's close to done here. If you wonder why it's tough to build large pots like this by yourself, try holding 45 pounds on two large pieces of plywood out in front of you and flipping it by yourself!
This MIGHT help answer some of the occasional questions about why potters don't often have tables filled with large handmade pots at shows.

Regards,
Dale

Nice one Dale. Now people can see what us potters have to do when constructing those Big Bad Boys

All the best

Andy

The rim of the pot above

Sealing the bottom of the pot above.

And, almost complete sans the decoration. About 25" long before drying and firing.

Another great one Dale,,,Thanks for sharing

Regards,
Alex

The pot is finished and drying now. Here are some shots of the two sides. There are clay additives that don't show in the photos until fired and it will then also have oxides and an almost clear ash glaze over it with only a slight green tint.

Wow Dale that's quite amazing.....
How long does it have to dry now?

Kind regards
Klaudia

Great one. I was just wondering. I need in the future some of those myself, and I prefer large trees over small ones.
Can I ask what the price of one would be? Dont know if im allowed to ask that here. Could you if so just PM me?
Thanks.

Thanks,

Klaudia,
I guess I will slowly dry it about 3 weeks before I bisque it. Longer if I just don't have the right amounts of the right sized pots to fill the kiln right. You know how that goes!
I'm not much into 'grass pots' ( I think I'm the only one) so I usually wind up with a bunch of wasted space so at the last minute I find myself making 'grass pots' to fill all the wasted spaces.

Storm, I PM'd you.

Dale

Dale Cochoy wrote:Here is a 18" matt granite glazed banded oval
and
a large and small pair of ash glazed scoops.

I love this bowl. please guide me how to purchase and transport these to Vietnam.

Batuluong,
That scoop is long gone now.
The best thing you can is if you see me post something you like, capture the photo and send me a message then.
Regards,
Dale

A few years ago I gave my friend and helper Matt one of those tall, staked-up ProcumbensJunipers. He cut it way back down and put it in a rivet pot I gave him for Christmas last year. He sure likes to pinch!

A couple small DRB shohin pots.
The first is a white clay with green 'cracks'





a bit more fancy with reversed coloring.

I'm FINALLY getting some pots fired that have been sitting a while. Here are a couple styles of larger Land & Water scoop trays I was working on for a particular tree. With these the tree would lean out over the water area and some branches would be very close to the water.



With this one I used a slab instead of a captured 'pond' look. I think this one would look good with either water or moss in the slab.

Hi Dale,
many times I thought about a pot like the last one. I should make some finally.

Thanks tom,
I've been making tiny to large versions of this idea for many years

here is a small one with upper and lower water, and snow!



one with ash glaze


A large one with a lower pot


a bunch of tiny ones

Hi Dale. I love the 'reverse colouring' pot and the 'upper and lower water with snow'. You know me and your snow pots!

Dale Cochoy wrote:How about some RED ?

This shohin white porcelain pot is finished with red and black. It was a refire from a 'leaf' finish I didn't like .
My bonsai teacher always used to say:
"Sometimes the magic just doesn't work"....

but, then maybe....



here's a quick shot of some red grass pots.

Hi Dale, Lovely red grass pots..... was the red glaze one of your own recipes or was it a commercial glaze? And was the pot fired in an electric or gas kiln. I think they're absolutely fabulous. I love the intensity of the red. cheers, Dan

Hi Dan,
A mixture of both types of glaze. I add fire place ash ( and other stuff) to many glazes and I can tell the small one on right end had quite a bit.
All were high fired in gas kiln. I no longer High Fire in electric. I'm trying to hold onto my electric kiln until I can retire!
so now I only bisque in my electric kiln, unless stuff is too big and then I bisque in the gas kiln, which I don't like doing.

Dale

Dale Cochoy wrote:Hi Dan,
A mixture of both types of glaze. I add fire place ash ( and other stuff) to many glazes and I can tell the small one on right end had quite a bit.
All were high fired in gas kiln. I no longer High Fire in electric. I'm trying to hold onto my electric kiln until I can retire!
so now I only bisque in my electric kiln, unless stuff is too big and then I bisque in the gas kiln, which I don't like doing.

Dale

Thanks Dale but I only have an electric kiln so I'm scuppered!!

Cheers,
Dan

Dan

You could always pop some of your pots in my gas kiln

Regards

Andy

Sounds dangerously like a euphemism that, Andy.