Fine Mess Pottery

I was too lazy to do the whole photo set up, when I just wanted to record a couple of pieces before I (ahem) sell them. The top bowl is the ...

When I was a student, a single really good pot was enough to make me pleased with a firing. By that standard, this was a spectacular firing;...

In my last two firings, one soda, one stoneware, I've been experimenting with glaze-into-glaze trailing (as opposed to glaze-onto raw cl...

It's pretty obvious why I can never get my list finished. Here's what I've got going on today: 1) Mix Old Yellow Glaze 2) Straig...

I've sort of soured on Etsy (more on that later.) I know some people do very well there, but for me it has turned out to be a ton of wor...

Does anyone use bud vases anymore? It's just my luck that I love to make stuff like bud vases and tea bowls that nobody uses. Although I...

Remember how I ranted about Zapplication , which all of the art fairs and other juried art events now use, instead of slides? Okay, that wa...

Some favorite pieces from the last firing: I am especially delighted with the vermiculations ("worm-shapes") on the top casserole....

The first bricks for the new kiln! Doug, inveterate scavenger that he is,  rescued these from the rubble pile at Watershed. They were piled ...

RIP, Patrick.

For some reason I always enjoy waxing day in the studio. It's a sort of mindless task that falls between making and glazing, one which o...

John Britt has a brief, funny post over at Clay Club; one which wryly addresses the question I have been chewing on for the last year, or re...