The French Canadian

Have you ever had a London fog? It’s a drink at Starbucks which is English Breakfast tea, steamed milk and vanilla syrup.  At Balzac’s they offer a Parisian mist, which is essentially the same thing but with French Breakfast tea. Well I came up with my own I call “the …

More pottery samples

So I worked on another set of sample tiles.  This time it was bronze, called Lamp’s Bronze.  The recipe is pretty straightforward with nice results but I am having troubles with changing it. The base recipe is Lamp’s Bronze 7 – Ball Clay 86 – Cedar Heights Redart 7 – …

Lessons from pottery

I am learning some very important life lessons since I started throwing pots.  The most obvious to me is patience. Patience is everything in pottery. First in throwing.  If you try to rush a piece and pull to hard your piece will end up lop-sided and uneven.  Since “there is …

Thanks Matt!

  As I continue in my creation of my own glazes I look to other potters as a source of information.  Matt Fiske’s Blog was one of the first sites I hooked into and in short order I read every post.  I highly recommend you check it out.  You can …

St.John’s Black

    I have started making my own glazes. I found a great recipe called St. John’s black. Nepheline Syenite – 25 Alberta Slip/Albany – 75 Cobalt Carbonate – 5% But I wanted something more dense, so I tried working on the recipe by adding other materials. Going from left …

Witch Doctor

A critique on the pseudo health sciences? Great video though. De Staat – Witch Doctor (Official Video) from STUDIO SMACK on Vimeo. Oh little sicky, seems to be the pain? Got all these herbs don’t mean a fucking thing I am the witch, with the magick tricks Mistrust the white …