Kreeger Pottery

Bridgework

I’m playing around with some designs that sourced from bridges. I showed Javi a picture of some of them and he immediately said that they remind him of bridges…does that mean it’s a successful endeavor?

I’m excited to try them out with some decals as well but this first round of work is all getting lines on them. Next week I’ll be starting to make some decalware work for the next firing.

Bisque #1 of the fall was fired on Friday and I’ll start glazing up today and hopefully be firing tomorrow.

It will be nice to have some new pots before I head to the Art of the Pot Workshop out in San Marcos. It’s not too late to sign up…there are a few spots left. Check out the Eye of the Dog Website to signup. It’s only $100 and it will be full of information by all 5 AOTP Hosts.

Posted in art of the pot, design, mixing bowls on 09/14/2010 01:56 pm | Comments Off

Guided by Voices

And Musical Tuesdays continues….

Guided by Voices is coming to Austin soon and I’m about to grab some tickets before it’s too late.

Posted in musical tuesday on 09/14/2010 12:00 pm | 2 Comments

Bridges

Looking through some source material for designs on my new pots. I love the internets and I love all of these bridges.

Posted in design on 09/09/2010 09:17 pm | Comments Off

Handling it

I don’t think I can work without this attachment slip from Matt and Dave’s clay anymore.

Here are a few cappuccino cups/soup cups attached with that magical goodness.

(trying out blogpress for iPhone so we’ll see how it works.)

This was posted with my iPhone including any and all typos.

Posted in Uncategorized on 09/08/2010 03:46 pm | Comments Off

Designing and Making

I’ve started to hit a nice little groove in the studio after struggling to find my skills my first week back. Last week was productive and I got about 50 small pots made. It had been a very long studio layoff while we played, and played, and played on Cape during the summer.

I’m getting ready for a few shows this fall and right now I’m focusing on the waxed/incised/slipped deco. I am planning on getting some decalware made for the shows but I’m really going to focus on 2 forms for that work. Most likely just mugs(or cups) and tumblers. The trouble I ran into in the spring with the decals was that each form required a new template in Photoshop or Illustrator for the decals. With two forms, I’ll only need two templates and I’ll be able to experiment more with each image while not worrying about how they’ll fit on each piece. I think the long term solution is still slipcasting cups for the decalware…I actually can’t wait to start that. But for now, it’s time to keep throwing in the studio to take care of what I do know how to do.

Some basic basketweave patterning on the mugs.

I like this design and I think I’ll keep playing around with it…perhaps there’s some color in all of that open space?

I threw a dozen tall soup bowls this morning.

I thought I would try some larger porcelain bowls(9 pounds).

Some even larger ones may appear on the table tomorrow.

Hurricane Earl whimpered through the Cape last week but today we’re feeling the effects of Tropical Storm Hermine and it’s been absolutely pouring here today and is supposed to continue on through Thursday. Good thing….we need the rain down here.

Posted in bowls, cityscape, decals, design, studio on 09/07/2010 11:00 pm | Comments Off

Musical Tuesday…again?

Why not?

Here’s one from Ratatat’s new album. They’re playing Austin here in a few weeks and I’m looking forward to seeing them again…and there’s some Skidmore pride since they both graduated with a degree in art from my Alma Mater.

Posted in musical tuesday on 09/07/2010 09:48 pm | 2 Comments

Hi Earl

While we’re sitting here in Austin enjoying the heat and humidity, our old stomping ground of the Cape is getting ready for a visit from Earl.

Right now, according to my friend Bruce’s photo, all is normal. (I found a blog that has been updated less than mine)

I’ll get some pics from my folks, who are still on Cape, as the storm rolls through and we’ll see what happens.

Posted in cape cod potters, friends, uh oh on 09/02/2010 11:00 pm | 1 Comment

Great Texas Clay Symposium

I’m excited to be part of the First Annual Great Texas Clay Symposium hosted by the great folks at the Eye of The Dog Art Center in San Marcos, TX.

They have a brand new building and I’ll be there along with my fellow Art of the Pot hosts, Ryan McKerley, Claudia Reese, Chris Campbell and Lisa Orr. We’ll each be demonstrating our varied techniques and having a lively discussion throughout the day.

It’s a full day workshop, 10am-4pm, on September 18th. Check out the EotD Website for more info and to sign up. It’s limited to 40 participants and there’s still a few spaces left. Sign up before it’s too late.

Posted in art of the pot, friends, workshops on 09/02/2010 08:54 pm | Comments Off

Musical Tuesday?

I began last Tuesday by posting a song. Maybe Tuesday becomes a music day here at the blog.

Ryan Takaba, who was one of our guest artists at Art of the Pot last May, posted this on his Facebook page. Since he grew up in Hawaii, I’ll take his word for it that Ohta-San is the real deal.

I liked it anyways and I’m thinking the kids will like it to when I show it to them later.

Pots are being made in the studio…perhaps I’ll blog about that soon.

Posted in art of the pot, friends, music on 08/31/2010 06:44 pm | Comments Off

Color

Kristen Kieffer’s tweet about color and the link to her old post about color came at the exact time that I was sitting looking at my test glazes that I had mixed almost 18 months ago.

I’m not looking for anything fancy but I do think I should add some color back to my work after going without it for the past year.

I do like the simplicity of having one glaze…and it’s even simpler when the one glaze I have mixed up is a clear glaze. All of my decorations have been done while the work is either leather-hard or green which means I don’t need to deal with the static bisqueware using any creative energy at all.

I also think that maybe the reason I’ve stayed away from color this past year is the fear of new. It’s been a lot of changes in the studio but the main thing has been the switch to porcelain and electric firing. I like how Emily has embraced the new materials and kiln going with lots of color right away.

I guess it’s time to add something to the mix. First of all, I’ll need to make some fresh work…and maybe staring at these test-tiles has been just one more form of procrastination as I put off finding out if I can still throw.

Posted in glaze tests on 08/25/2010 05:11 pm | 1 Comment

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