Succulents and pottery

[Liz M]

Oxides you mix with water and paint on with a fairly fine paint brush. Put it on the pot when it is dried before bisk firing or before glaze firing.

[chilli]

Thanks Liz, all advice appreciated.
cheers Chilli

[Liz M]

Here are a few of my succulents in ceramic pots.

Sedum gypsicola ssp trinacriae

Echeveria derenbergii

Echeveria 'Topsy-turvy'

Pachyphytum oviferum

[chilli]

Obviously you have a good eye to match the colours and textures of plants and your bowls. Looks so much more an item
cheers Chilli

[chilli]

Well, started pottery 3 months ago, bought a kiln and wheel and this week was my first firing.The idea was to get the clay to crack on the surface. it is not cracked glaze. In fact it has no glaze just oxide colouring.
Hope you like the results.

You can follow my progress here http://succulentsandpotterybychilli.blogspot.co.uk/
Cheers all
Chilli

[Tina]

Yes they are SUPER.
Have yo had lessons ?

Well done , so how expensive is it to run the kiln or do we not talk about that ?.

[Geoff Lovell]

Good Luck.
I am envious.
The only thing I did well at school was Pottery!

[chilli]

Hi Tina, many thanks.
My partner and I signed up to a local pottery class about 9 weeks ago but to be honest with 12 other people there, and all at different levels we gave it up as we spent most the time waiting around.
I got a couple of pointers but really it was watching youtube vids that helped me most, that and because the kiln needed re kitting out to get high temp firing I spent a month just throwing pots and then just binning them in a recycle bucket. Interesting and frustrating in equal measure.
My knee was really hurting for the first month as each pot took an age to centre. But it has started to get easier.
Its odd that 12 weeks ago I would never have thought I would be making pots.

costs, well, very small kiln, supposedly about £2-3 a firing.
sweat and blood=very bad rate of exchange!!
cheers
Chilli

[Diane]

Those are superb! And absolutely unique, not mass produced (You'd make a fortune on that well-known auction site... )

[Liz M]

Super pots and you have mastered the wheel well, something I never did.