I am excited to be part of the 2012 Easley Farmer’s Market Holiday Market on November 17, 2012 featuring craftsmen, artists, bakers, growers/farmers from the upstate of South Carolina. The market is from 10:00am to 2:00pm in front of Easley City Hall at 205 N 1st St Easley, SC 29640. For more information please visit the Easley Farmer’s Market webpage.
I have listed a few cups, tea bowls, and vases on my etsy shop.
I just finished throwing my first piece of pottery on my new pottery wheel.
I am very excited to be one of thirty artists picked to be part of the Hub Bub’s Holiday Handmade Hoopla, a juried art and crafts market.
Saturday, December 3, 2011
VIP Preview 10am-Noon
General Shopping 12pm-6pm
Bijou Building
147 East Main St.
Downtown Spartanburg
(next to Yogalicious)
More about VIP Preview:
10am-Noon
Beat the crowds!
Get first pick from a plethera of items by 30 amazing, artists and crafters!
We’ll have it all ~ jewelry, fine art, pottery, wooden bowls, clothing and more.
Enjoy live music, mimosas & complimentary delectables from:
Cakehead Bakeshop
Little River Roasting CoffeeBar
Zarza Eclectic Cuisine
(a new restaurant opening soon below HUB-BUB)
VIP Preview tickets available in advance and at the door ~$15
The 16th Bon Dance, a Japanese Buddhist custom to honor the departed, will take place in Greenville, SC on Saturday 88/13/2011 at McAlister Square. During the Bon Dance, there will also be Japanese food and crafts for sale. I will be there selling my Japanese influenced pottery between 12:30 and 4:30.
I developed this glaze recipe during the 2002 school year at Clemson. I have not used it much in the past few years since, my work is mainly fired in atmospheric kilns such as soda or wood kilns now. This glaze really starts to move and drips off the pots if fired in an atmospheric kiln. Clemson Tenmoku comes out very well in cone ten reduction kilns. The glaze isn’t exactly Clemson University’s purple and orange, but close enough that I decided to name it Clemson Tenmoku.
The recipe is percentage by weight when mixing up 1000 grams of dry glaze materials.
Clemson Tenmoku:
Potash 33.0
Whiting 20.0
#6 Tile 15.0
Flint 32.00
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Bentonite 5.0
Red Iron 4.0
Black Iron 3.0
Rutile 5.0
Gerstley Borate 3.0
I’ve added a few more cups, tea bowls, and shot glasses to my etsy store. These new items come from a variety of firings. I have a couple yunomi that were fired in a soda kiln. These came out very good. One was glazed with a chun glaze and the other was glazed with a tenmoko. The tea bowls were all wood fired, glazed with either a shino glaze or a nuka glaze that I made from rice hull ash. The shot glasses were also glazed with a shino glaze.
I am very happy to announce that one of my tea bowls was accepted in the Kansas City Clay Guild’s Juried Teabowl National 2011 show.
Here is my tea bowl that was accepted in the show:
If you can not make it to Kansas City for the show you can view all entire show on the KC Clay Guild’s Facebook page.
Here I am all set up and ready for the Spring Art Mart at the Hub Bub in Spartanburg, SC.
I bought some clay supplies today from my regional clay supply store Highland Clays. I’m going to start firing some of my work as cone 5 oxidation. This will allow me to explore some ideas that I don’t think would work well with wood firing.
