Pot piddling

I made acouple of shohin pots last month. Nothing special.

The first one was hand carved from a block of clay.



The second one was from a mold I made several years ago.

I really like the blue piece. The glaze breaks nicely on the edges and really shows off the form. It looks like it could have been made 300 years ago. Nice job!
Also, could you explain your avatar?

Nice pots Rob. I like them.

I'm going to guess that Robs avatar is some sort of golf club testing machine, an auto-driver if you will.
Am I right Rob?

Ed

EdMerc wrote:Nice pots Rob. I like them.

I'm going to guess that Robs avatar is some sort of golf club testing machine, an auto-driver if you will.
Am I right Rob?

Ed

Yep, Iron Byron.

After all I am the bonsai golfer.

BTW can you name a famous bonsai golfer?

Ah, you've got me there. I have no idea, but I hope it's Arnold Palmer. I work for Orlando Health / Arnold Palmer Hospital.

Nice pots Rob.

Does the blue glaze in the second pot have any manganese or ilmenite (granular iron) bleeding through?

Rob A.

Taiko-Earth Pottery Blog

Hi Rob,

a good work your pots, like your website.
Too your first pot, this technique is still used by Japanese potters. It is a hard work if you want to look at the photos. Unfortunately, the text is still in German, but later translated into English.

http://www.bonsaischalen.info/index.php?page=yuzan-fujikake

Technique photos are at the end of the article.

Many greetings

Peter

Rob Addonizio wrote:Nice pots Rob.

Does the blue glaze in the second pot have any manganese or ilmenite (granular iron) bleeding through?

Rob A.

Taiko-Earth Pottery Blog

Rob - I am a pot hacker. The glaze is a commercial glaze so I have no knowledge of the chemical composition.
I just lathered it on thickly. Actually I used two separate glazes but didn't record which - like I said - a hacker.
I leave my surgical precision to the golf course.

peter krebs wrote:Hi Rob,

a good work your pots, like your website.
Too your first pot, this technique is still used by Japanese potters. It is a hard work if you want to look at the photos. Unfortunately, the text is still in German, but later translated into English.

http://www.bonsaischalen.info/index.php?page=yuzan-fujikake

Technique photos are at the end of the article.

Many greetings

Peter

Thanks Peter.
Mr Fujikake's technique is pretty much what I do but he is much more skilled; I'm just a hacker.
I have found that some wood working tools work pretty well for leveling the clay.

I really like the painted scenes. Are the pots bisque fired and then the scenes painted on? I'll have to look into the paints. It would be interesting to try painting some western theme scenes on some pots - like the New York city skyline - one with the World Trade Center and the other side without.

Rob,
Nice pots and interesting process.
Thanks for posting
Rob

Hi Rob,

New York City skyline, World Trade Center, Golden Gate, etc., on pots to paint is a super idea.
Fujikake makes ceramic and porcelain. It's easy for you, first you burning your pots, either ceramic or porcelain. Then once you have a paint-glaze on, then with an airbrush, a transparent glaze on the pan and burn low.


Diameter: 14,2 x 10,3 inch
This is an approximately 100-150 year old porcelain pot from China in the blue-white technology.
This is the highest quality.



This is a copy of the pot of my hand without a mould pottery. (it’s Ceramic not porcelain) with black paint glaze. The picture shows the back of the original pot.

Many greetings

Peter.

peter krebs wrote:Hi Rob,

New York City skyline, World Trade Center, Golden Gate, etc., on pots to paint is a super idea.
Fujikake makes ceramic and porcelain. It's easy for you, first you burning your pots, either ceramic or porcelain. Then once you have a paint-glaze on, then with an airbrush, a transparent glaze on the pan and burn low.


Diameter: 14,2 x 10,3 inch
This is an approximately 100-150 year old porcelain pot from China in the blue-white technology.
This is the highest quality.



This is a copy of the pot of my hand without a mould pottery. (it’s Ceramic not porcelain) with black paint glaze. The picture shows the back of the original pot.

Many greetings

Peter.

Absolutely superb.

Can you show us some of your own design?

Hi Rob,

thanks for the compliment.
Photos of painted pots I have yet to put together, the photos will follow later.

Here is a photo of a painted pot.
Handmade without mould
Theme: Japanese Cock-fight
pot fired at 1230 ° C
Mal-glaze fired at 1050 ° C



Many greetings

Peter