Day 53

Brown planter

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Brown clay

Unfired

Day 49

Cactus pot

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Majolica

Unfired

Day 46

Plant pot

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Brown clay

Unfired

Day 44

Textured plant pot

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Majolica clay

Unfired

Day 43

                                                                 

Hanging pinch pot from the leftovers

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Day 42

Plant pot

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Mixed clay from the leftovers

Unfired

Day 41

Plant pot with cracks 

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Mixed clay from the leftovers

Unfired

Day 40

Plant pot with black pepper and cumin

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Day 39

Plant pot with black pepper

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Burnished surface

Unfired

UPDATE: Fired

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Day 38

Burnished cactus pot

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Unfired

Day 36

Shallow cactus pot

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Majolica clay, white engobe

Unfired

UPDATE: Fired

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Day 35

Pink crack bowl

This is one bigger pot with cracks from pink chamotte clay.

It will probably be for some small succulent garden.

It has simple oval form with lot of cracks.

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Pink chamotte clay

Unfired

Day 34

Meanwhile pot

This one cracked on the back side.

 It doesn't bother me but I hope it won't completely crack in firing.

I am slowly preparing myself for spring planting so I am obsessively

working on pots for cacti, succulents and herbs.
That is the plan for planting. For now.
But I can already see myself  going from the local market with 
a bunch of bags full of unplanned plants.

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 I am looking forward to more relaxed, fresh and sunny spring days!

This year forecast says it is going to be a very sunny spring

so the only thing left to do is to wait. :)

UPDATE: Fired

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Day 29

Little ugly plant pot

You can see that I didn't put much effort in this one.

It's a small, ugly cactus pot but I hope for some pretty cactus in it 

so it will make a balance :)

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Honestly,

 I really don't remember what clay this is because I didn't updated blog

exactly the same day

and I forgot it in the meanwhile.

I think it is the brown clay but we will see after the firing. :)

UPDATE: Fired

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Day 18

Cactus pot

I started by decorating it with engobe. 

Same as yesterday, I will do some mishima.

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It's not finished yet.

UPDATE: Fired pot

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Same as yesterday, no mishima because 

it was difficult for me to sand the surface cause this clay is with chamotte and it started to break on the spots where I carved it. 

Day 17

Carved cactus pot

I carved the surface in a leather hard stage.

I got smarter from the other day when 

I carved it when it dried completely.

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I will probably do a mishima* here.

Basically, it's the inlay technique.

You can find more about mishima here.

*Mishima is a technique of inlaying slip, underglaze,

 or even clay into a contrasting clay body, the main clay body of the pottery piece. Creating a mishima piece basically involves six steps: creating the pot, incising the design, filling the design, removing excess material, drying the piece, and firing. "

UPDATE: Fired pot

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As you can see, I gave up from mishima.

 I like it this way :)

Day 15

Carved pot

I mixed together brown and pink clay and started with some simple shape.

I liked it that way so I left it to dry.

When it almost completely dried

 I decided to do some carving. 

Lucky me. 

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It turned out just fine but I could save some time and effort 

by doing it in a leather hard stage.

It would be soooo much easier. 

UPDATE: Fired pot

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Day 14

Hanging pink cactus pot

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UPDATE: Fired pot

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Day 12

Brown cactus pot

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Heavy texture that reminds me of corals.


UPDATE: Fired pot

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Day 10

Cactus pot

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I used white clay and green engobe on this one.

UPDATED: Fired pot

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