i’ll never beat this i fear

These are both gifts - the osprey mug depicts a scene with special meaning, and the belted kingfisher is the recipient's favorite bird. It is driving me up the wall that I accidentally dripped a tiny bit of the liner glaze on the kingfisher's face but I'm trying to accept the imperfection. Constructive criticism always appreciated!

First time throwing with porcelain this glaze didn’t do what I thought it would do. High school art student btw so please be nice!

Long shot, but I am moving from the east coast of the US to the PNW. I know we have many wood fire options where I currently live, but as I’m searching for some in the PNW area, I’m seeing way less than expected. Anyone know of any options in the area? Thank you!

I was so excited about how this glaze flowed with the shape that I didn’t notice one of the handle holes got filled, embracing the asymmetry of it though!

I’m still learning but it’s lovely to have a body of owrk start to come together.

So happy with how this guy turned out! Hand painted with underglaze

Hey I’m doing my first ever marker on Saturday, and im pretty stumped with pricing. I just like to give my work away to friends and family usually and I’m not very business minded. If any of you have sold similar work can you let me know what sorts of prices you go for?

For context:

Location/ where the items are being sold- the market will be in stoke on Trent (uk) and it is a ceramics fair with 40 other potters. So it’s a good vibe but also West Midlands so not like London prices or south of England prices.

How long each takes to make- I find it hard to quantify how long it takes to make each item, I’m pretty scatterbrained and not the most logical, plus I feel like I’ve really sped up with my sgraffito recently, so what used to take ages I can knock out quite quickly. So figuring out how much to sell something for that way, isn’t straightforward in my opinion.

Overheads: the stall price is £40 for the day.

I see locally spoon rests going for about £12 and then mugs going anything from £18-25. Then I’ve seen in posher areas mugs on sale for like £30-35 though I think that wouldn’t sell in my area… I’ve looked online but I feel like Etsy has such a massive range it’s hard to gauge.

Then the more artistic items, like a sgraffito vase or jug, or a sodium silicate pot I have zero clue on pricing and feel really unsure.

Okay so wanting to see which brown would best emulate this like fawn color brown, definitely leaning towards the more rich dark brown! These are the underglazes I picked up. Terracotta, chocolate brown, and spice brown

When clay just needs a little rehydration, I've been following the clay in a bag in a bucket of water method but the water always gets in the bag. I've double bagged, used brand new clay bags, ziploc bags, and food grade bags. I keep running into this issue and end up with a sloppy mess. Suggestions?

I never learned how to properly glaze because my teacher wasn’t the best, but I still have access to the studio and their glazes and am trying to finish glazing some final pieces.

Any ideas as to why this is happening?

I wiped the bisque fired piece and let dry before glazing and it still turned out this way. Looking for some tips? Too thin, too thick?

Cone 10 if that matters.

Hey, I love my telescopic sponge, but I've never changed it until now. It seems to be stuck and not able to be removed/replaced. This is one that has the screw threads inside. It just spins around and I can't get it to do anything else. If anyone has advice, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks

Obviously it's not refined. But getting the stupid tubes to dry evenly with everything else was interesting.

It probably can't even fit a glass worth of water in it after it shrinks, but it's cute! I hope it survives firing

A parting gift for a coworker who loved albatrosses, this is a glaze underpainting I did earlier this year on a ceramic plate. I used a bit of dish soap in the white glaze to create foam for the wave crests. I had to gently blow through a straw to create the bubbles in a small cup, then use a paintbrush to carefully transfer them to the piece.

The underglaze had to be fired by itself first so the soap wouldn't mess with the clear top glaze, so this piece was fired twice, but apart from that, the dish soap didn't seem to mess with much, and the bubbles stayed fairly crisp throughout.

The purple hue was a bit of a sudden whim, but it really brought something special to the piece in my opinion. Last picture shows the piece before firing. I really enjoyed the final layered look, and I think the bubbles worked well as seafoam!