Diana Pancioli on tue 14 oct 03
I am coming in at the end of the Big Pot discussion.
Just wanted to mention to those people who for any reason can't throw
big pots
that you can still MAKE big pots quite easily.
Try building with extruded bands, about 3/8 inch thick and 2 to 2.5
inches wide.
My beginning students make beautiful big pots this way
after only a month's experience in the studio
(up to 32" high AND they are light.)
A hair dryer helps to stiffen the pot as you go.
You will be surprised how fast you can build one.
One of these days I will get a web site up
so I can show you the beginning students' pots.
Diana
Tom Sawyer on tue 14 oct 03
For any of you that haven't participated in a Diana workshop and are
interested in big pots, I would strongly recommend you consider attending.
She did a lovely workshop for us in Orlando a few years ago at a local high
school and after she left several students made some very nice big pots with
her method. I also made a rather large pot probably about 36-40 inches in
height. It remains the lightest large pot I have ever made.
Tom Sawyer
tsawyer@cfl.rr.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Clayart [mailto:CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG]On Behalf Of Diana
Pancioli
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 7:55 AM
To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
Subject: Big Pots-- Not Thrown
I am coming in at the end of the Big Pot discussion.
Just wanted to mention to those people who for any reason can't throw
big pots
that you can still MAKE big pots quite easily.
Try building with extruded bands, about 3/8 inch thick and 2 to 2.5
inches wide.
My beginning students make beautiful big pots this way
after only a month's experience in the studio
(up to 32" high AND they are light.)
A hair dryer helps to stiffen the pot as you go.
You will be surprised how fast you can build one.
One of these days I will get a web site up
so I can show you the beginning students' pots.
Diana
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Darnie Sizemore on tue 14 oct 03
I was one of Diana's Students a few years ago and I built 5 large pots with this method. It was quite fun, and I even sold two of them. With paddles and careful building, you can get excellent shapes. Glazing can be tricky if you don't have a spray booth. But it is fun to build, and they make excellent umbrella holders!!!
Darnie
Diana Pancioli wrote:
I am coming in at the end of the Big Pot discussion.
Just wanted to mention to those people who for any reason can't throw
big pots
that you can still MAKE big pots quite easily.
Try building with extruded bands, about 3/8 inch thick and 2 to 2.5
inches wide.
My beginning students make beautiful big pots this way
after only a month's experience in the studio
(up to 32" high AND they are light.)
A hair dryer helps to stiffen the pot as you go.
You will be surprised how fast you can build one.
One of these days I will get a web site up
so I can show you the beginning students' pots.
Diana
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Malcolm Schosha on tue 14 oct 03
--- In clayart@yahoogroups.com, Diana Pancioli wrote:
> I am coming in at the end of the Big Pot discussion.
>
> Just wanted to mention to those people who for any reason can't
throw
> big pots
> that you can still MAKE big pots quite easily.
>
> Try building with extruded bands, about 3/8 inch thick and 2 to 2.5
> inches wide.
> My beginning students make beautiful big pots this way
> after only a month's experience in the studio
> (up to 32" high AND they are light.)
> A hair dryer helps to stiffen the pot as you go.
> You will be surprised how fast you can build one.
>
> One of these days I will get a web site up
> so I can show you the beginning students' pots.
>
> Diana
>
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Diana,
Throwing does become something of an obsession for those of us who
are involved with it. However, other forming techniques are not only
valid, but are the means of making much of the greatest pottery of
all time. It is important not to forget that.
Thanks.
Malcolm
Lee Love on wed 15 oct 03
> From: Clayart [mailto:CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG]On Behalf Of Diana
> -----Original Message-----
> Try building with extruded bands, about 3/8 inch thick and 2 to 2.5
> inches wide.
Coil is a great traditional technique in coil and throw too. You
don't need an extruder, I just roll my coils out on a wareboard. In coil
& throw, you can make very large coils. I typically, add just 2 or 3 large
coils after I throw the base.
> A hair dryer helps to stiffen the pot as you go.
> You will be surprised how fast you can build one.
I broke my butane torch and reverted to a hair drier for 5 minutes.
Went right out to the hardware and bought a new torch. There are so
many uses for the torch. Sometimes, when you are trimming, the bottom of
the pot is a little soft. I like to trim the Shigaraki really soft
because of the feldspar rocks in it. To keep the area inside the footring
from slumping, I torch the inside bottom to stiffen it.
--
Lee In Mashiko, Japan
http://Mashiko.org
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