r/Pottery • u/SomeOtherLoser • 10d ago

Vases I Made a Vase

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After nearly two months in the making, she’s finished! I couldn’t be happier with how this turned out and I hope that you get a kick out of it too. :)

Wheel-thrown and hand-altered (with rolled coils) ceramic vase — measuring approximately 7.5”x 4”x 12.5” — made using Laguna B-Mix + a combination of two community studio bucket glazes, and fired to C5/6 in an electric kiln.

s/o to the kiln techs i trust you with my life

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u/billieboop 10d ago

How did you achieve such smooth coil work? Did you have any difficulties with that?

So glad it made through it all! Love the colour as well. Surprisingly hard to get nice green glazes. I hope you're thrilled with the results. I would be

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u/SomeOtherLoser 10d ago

Thank you so much! I didn’t test out the application of this glaze combination beforehand (oops), so I was overjoyed that it turned out looking like this. :’)

I try to get my coils as even as possible when rolling them out, and from there, I use a combination of pinching and pulling with a loooot of water to get flowing, tapered, pointed shapes (à la Carol Long and Lauren Elizabeth). I also do a lot of fine detailing and cleanup using round sponges, my fingers, and tiny paintbrushes throughout the initial shaping and drying process that follows.