Tilted pot (heh, bet I got Flyman's attention)
 

My indoor cacti are the most spoiled plants in the clavus household. They have custom homes. I threw these on a wheel. For those of you who care, they are all stoneware, fired at cone 10 (ooo! hot!!!)

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This pot is porcelain. I put some blue slip on it and carved some wild-looking fishies all over it before the first firing. Clear glaze went on for firing #2. Sadly, the long-time resident of this pot did not survive the Winter.

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This pot causes cactus erections. It is also porcelain.

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I went a little crazy with glaze and resists on this one. The effect was not what I thought it would be. But I still think it’s cool.

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Oooo! Pretty colors. The glaze did exactly what I wanted it to do. Huh! What are the odds?

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I carved out Mr. Sun, filled the carving with colored slip, fired it, then glazed it with clear. A lot of work for a marginal effect, but the sedum loves living here.

http://www.mightywombat.com/etc/pots/sunpot.jpg

lol you got my attention too! :-)

those are some nice looking pots too, and quite a nice collection of cacti to go with it!

i used to have a cactus, but it died. :-(

those are sweet.........what kiln did you use?

if only you had pot growin' in the pots........ :D

you are a lucky man with all the artistry that runs through you clavus........:thumbsup:

Great lookin pots man!

Asta!!

Dang, clavus! Your talents are wide ranging. :thumbsup:
What else are you good at?

I like the blue fish one! I used to have some cacti growing here, unfortunately they all died as I am the worst keeper of plants, ever.

That is some fine looking pottery.

Eating pussy. Really!

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Yo, fly. I used a big, brick, gas-fired kiln on campus. Some day I'll have to build my own...after the kids are older and less likely to lock one-another inside it.
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The basic rule of not killing a cactus is to SOAK the soil when you water it. Water the hell out of it every couple of weeks in the Summer. Once a month in the Winter. Lots of cactus novices fear overwatering and end up with a sad cactus.

My thought exactly.

What an interesting hobby you've got there clavus! :D

So... you just color the pots but do not make them all from skratch am I right?

No. I take a lump of wet clay, throw it on a wheel, center it, drop a hole, pull out the sides, raise the walls and shape it. Then I let it dry very slowly (so as not to crack) in a damp-box (an old refridgerator that I built shelves into). Once it is leather-hard, I carve it a little and/or put colored slip on it, and flip it over and put a foot on the base (and put a hole in the bottom for the watter to come out). Then I fire it. Then I glaze it. Then I fire it again.

ta DA! From shapless mound of dirt, to cactus condo!

I do mugs too, but all my best ones I gave to my friends, so I can't post pix of them.

...in other words, I make them from scratch.

Does it take a good while to create one of these?
If it didn't take too long, could you make something for us here on the TFP? :)
Could you create one with the TFP logo on it?

Heh! TFP logo mugs would be awesome. It doesn't take a lot of hands-on time, but the drying and firing and whatnot take a few weeks. But I'm not throwing right now and I don't have access to a kiln anyway. I put my wheel away, and promised myself not to do any more creative things (other than my weekly comic) until I finish the two giant projects I on working on. In other words, June/July...

sweet pots clavus.

i wish i was a cactus.
then i'd have a nice home made by you.

i'm kinda prickly.
does that count?

Whats the difference in Ceramic and Stoneware? Are regular flowerpots Stoneware or Cermaic? Are they not all made from the same materials? I dig your pots, the one in which you said it didn't come out right I thought was one of the better ones. Cool use of colors and shading. Damn I wish I had an eighth of your creative ability. If you need something jury rigged, I'm your man, but if you want something creative and artistic, don't come my way.
*sighs*

wow man, you should really try to sell those, they're unbelievable. I tried doing something similar once, but i just made a mess. nice work!

The thread makes me think of ceramics class in highschool <shivers>.....

But the pots look great! Mine always exploded.... which was also cool.

Stoneware is really frickin hard ceramic. It gets this way by being fired at a very, very high temeperature.

Most regular ol' flowerpots would melt or disintigrate in the kiln if you fired them at cone 10.

There are a zillion kinds of clay, all of which can be fired and made into "ceramics." I THINK that most flowerpots made in Mexico are relatively fragile. They are fired at a very low temperature. Though they look the same, pots made in Italy are made of higer-fire clay, and are much harder.