Maggie Jones on tue 25 sep 07
I remember seeing every color of clay on earth at one end of Martha's
Vineyard from white to black and in between.
would love to go back there, seems there were some tourist swirlware pots
being sold at the top of the cliff.
links to photos of my Myrtle Beach pitcher.
I now see that I had mixed it 50/50 with the stoneware I was using at the
time, Highwater's brownstone. an average 4-6 oxidation stoneware.
photos show a few lime pops since the firing. scrap glaze applied,
some rutile and tin in it.
http://maggiejones.20fr.com/beach1.jpg
http://maggiejones.20fr.com/beach2.jpg
http://maggiejones.20fr.com/beach3.jpg
http://maggiejones.20fr.com/beach4.jpg
I apologize for the blurs and please, no comments on the spout!...after
40 yrs I still struggle with those physics!( and I call myself a
potter..)
have a good day,
Maggie
http://TurtleIslandPottery.com
Maggie and Freeman Jones
828.669.2713
.........next OPEN Sept 29th spread the word!
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:02:52 -0400 Hollis
writes:
> Lisa: Beach clay's pretty common up here on Cape Cod and over on my
> home island of Martha's Vineyard. The geology of a lot of these
> places
> is pretty complex, often involving ancient Ice Age glaciers, and up
> here layers of clay are interspersed with layers of sand and
> pebbles
> and boulders. The clay often shows up in those layers at the bottom
> of
> sand banks above the beach. I've used what is essentially "beach
> clay"
> from Martha's Vineyard to make some funky cone 10 pots. I slaked
> it,
> dried it, wedged it and threw it. Lots of stones and sand, but
> still
> plastic enough to make bowls, teabowls, vases, etc. You run into
> problems with pebbles breaking out of the surface when you go to
> cone
> 10, which means you get leaking or seeping of liquids in the
> finished
> pot. But that risk is what I regard as part of the charm of working
> with this clay. Most of these right-out-of-the-earth clay bodies, I
> should say, seem to melt at stoneware temps, so what I did
> initially
> was put small bits of it into bisqued bowls during a glaze firing.
> Give
> it a try. I found that this high-iron clay worked particularly well
> with some of my shinos. You can see some of these pots on my
> website,
> hatchvillepottery.com.
> Hollis Engley
> Hatchville Pottery
> E. Falmouth, MA
> hatchvillepottery.com
>
>
>
>
> On Sep 23, 2007, at 8:50 PM, Lisa Skeen wrote:
>
> > We are down at Beaufort, NC this weekend and got on the beach at
> > Atlantic Beach this afternoon. On the way down to the beach, I
> saw
> > several large, gray objects, which were the size and shape of
> large
> > stones. I thought they WERE large stones, and picked one up,
> thinking
> > I was gonna bring it home to put in the driveway.
> >
> > I have never heard of clay on the beach before, but I'd swear
> this
> > stuff was clay. Really short clay, but it had that "slickery"
> feel,
> > and I broke one in half and it looked like clay all the way
> through.
> >
> > Think I'm gonna collect some for experimenting at home, if I can
> find
> > some tomorrow, but I thought I'd ask here if anyone has ever heard
> of
> > such an animal.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Lisa with a slight sun burn and eaten alive by mosquitos in
> Beaufort,
> > NC.
> >
> > When I get home on Thursday, I expect to pick up the
> calendars.....and
> > then the delivery fun begins.
> >
> > http://www.living-tree.net/calendar.htm
> >
> >
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