New post on Pottery Blog

There is new post on Pottery page featuring my clay Golf Shoe and Glove.

Have a look and leave some comments.

My Pottery Page Update

I have finished the Orchid Pots page on The Clay Work blog. All the orchid pots I made in 2008 are there. Also, there are new pieces on Pottery page and later tonight I will start with Sculptures and then it is on to Raku page. I want to complete this project before outdoor gardening season starts and before golf courses will open, which most likely will be in 3 or 4 days.

The Clay Work Page is Being Build!

Finally, I had some time to work on my pottery page. Of course, the first order of business is to take picture of all ceramic pieces that I want to show. Not an easy task, I found out. I have already built a light box last year but with shiny glazes it doesn’t work that well. Only practical solution was to build “light tent” which is basically just a box frame that has a white fabric wrapped on sides, top and back and with free flowing and changeable back curtain. So, off I went to hardware store to get some plastic tubing and fittings and then Wal-Mart to buy some white fabric, cheap desk lamps and light bulbs. But, I’m still having hard time to get rid of sharp and bright highlights on some very round pieces so I guess I will have to fix it in Photoshop.

Here is one jar that gave me fit with those sharp highlights. I'll figure it out, I have to. Looks like there is a Google session on my timetable.

Orchid Collection

This is something that I have absolutely nothing to do with, except on occasion encouraging my wife to buy more. Unfortunately or is it fortunately, space is limited and so is the collection. From what I see, orchids are complicated but beautiful plants. I didn’t know that they don’t like direct sun in general but when you think about it there isn’t too much direct sun close to the jungle floor so it is logical. Orchid and rose gardening are specialty fields, something that I don’t have too much patience for, I am afraid, even though I have done very well with growing heritage Victorian climbing roses from cuttings. I will have a post about them when they start to bloom.

Here is a mini gallery of Marjo’s orchids and I will update as each starts to bloom.

All the orchids that Marjo grows are Phalaenopsis.

I forgot to mention that I have made all of the orchid pots pictured at top. All of them are my original design and hand build with stoneware clay using slab construction and fired and glazed at cone 6.