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#pottery

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Pottery by Osa

Between #gardening and #pottery, I’ve found so much use for free wood scraps. There’s just so much scrap wood out there from felling trees, woodworking and shipping pallets. Just make sure the wood is untreated. I got these scraps from a local woodworker that I’ll use in my outdoor #rocketkiln and for backyard fires. Also got a bag of sawdust which I’ll use to saggar fire pottery and to add carbon to my #compost. 🧵

A small haul of scrap wood in the back of my car.
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Pottery by Osa

I made a #zine sharing my experiments and explorations collecting and using #wildclay to decorate my pottery as a way to encourage others to dabble with free, local materials in an easy, non-technical way. I share process, recipes and insights, letting you into my studio practice. Lots of photos of clay samples & test tiles. Available in print or digital (including a printer spread so you can print and make your own zine.)
potterybyosa.com/collections/c
#ZinesByOsa #pottery #ceramics

The cover of my zine featuring a photo of a pitcher I made decorated wild clay terra sigillata. It is tall and geometrically patterned with carved diamond patterns and raised dots. The pitcher is collaged on top of a photo of clay in situ, gray, yellow and tan colors of Florida earth. The zine title “earthen rainbow” is at the top of the page, all lower case and placed a bit crookedly. The subtitle “working with wild clay terra sigillata at midrange” is lower down beside the pitcher inside a light green circle.
My hand holding three copies of “earthen rainbow” zine fanned out. Held up against a sage green background.
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Mia (web luddite)

Trimmed a bunch of gaiwan lids (I re-threw them yesterday, the first round were small). Clearly made extras - but I wasn't sure what i'd like best.

Started on the teacups, but not happy about the size variation. Need to get better at measuring, or make myself a gauge.

#pottery (in progress)

five white clay gaiwans with a narrow base and flared rim and carved texture. all have lids, and there are four more lids on the ware board between the star of bowls. most lids have a small central hollow cylinder handle, with straight or flared walls. one has a thumb-print knob attached to the top.
five white clay tea cups with angled-out walls and undercut foot, and a sixth slightly smaller black original inspiration cup
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Miah Johnson

Made an important #pottery tool today. shrinkage rulers! Different clay bodies shrink when drying and being fired. So this ruler will shrink and you can use this ruler with a standard ruler and make good estimations about how your project will change.

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Pottery by Osa

Whenever I have new #pottery ready, I send an email to my subscribers. It’s a way for me to communicate with people who want to buy my work and it’s also a place to express myself in more than 500 characters since I like to write. I describe my process, explain the thoughts behind certain pieces, share my inspirations, etc. If you’d like to sign up, visit my website.

A digital sticker of three mugs I made, collaged against a background photo which is a closeup of white and orange clay soil. The mug on the left is dark orange, brown and chartreuse. The middle mug, slightly taller than the first is tan, brown and aqua. The mug on the right, the tallest, is a rusty off-white and chartreuse. Each mug is carved with symmetrical, geometric patterns and painted in the described tones.
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Pottery by Osa

Being a potter means drawing from a vocabulary of tried-and-true forms: mugs, teapots, bowls, pitchers, etc. However, these archetypal forms have European & Asian origins.

I thought it would be interesting to everyone & affirming to other Black ceramicists to reference #African forms in contemporary tableware. The combining of European, Asian and African ceramics traditions goes back to mid-20th century, but that history is omitted from US #ceramic education. See #alttext for details. #pottery

A small jug with a spout, made to reference the iconic form of Nupe storage vessels from Nigeria. The jug is spherical and voluminous at the bottom, narrow at the neck and flares out into a cup shape at the top. It is heavily decorated with carved geometric patterns, painted with orange clay slip from Tennessee, variegated brown clay slip from Lake Ontario and bright chartreuse green glazed accents.
A large storage vessels from the Nupe culture of Nigeria, 20th century. It is dark brown and mostly unglazed except for a few bands of shiny, vitrified slip that have flaked off over the years. It has the same proportions referenced in the piece Osa made, with similar carved geometric patterning. This vessel however does not include a spout and is too large to lift and pour. It was probably mainly used for storage of liquids, grains, seeds, etc.
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Mia (web luddite)

Did some trimming on this guy today, and decided to leave the slight chattering marks from the trimming tool. Looking at the photo I want to touch-up the neck-to-rim transition:

It's a reclaim mix of brown clays, I'll be curious to see how it come out.

high angle of a clay vase, leather hard, witch subtle rhythmic texture - narrow at the foot, sloaping out to wide shoulders, and cutting in quickly to meet the neck at a sharp angle. the neck is straight for and inch, and then arcs back out to a wide lip.
side angle of the same vase, with a curvy mid-section, and more angular neck/flare. the whole thing is about 7 inches tall, 5 wide at the rim, and slightly wider at the shoulders
#pottery#art
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