Great job! Thanks for sharing :)

Thank you! The Halloween one was fairly difficult to transfer correctly and there's a few smudges on it. But the smudges kinda go with the Halloween theme so it worked out.

My wife did a much better job with the scalloped edges on her Thanksgiving bowl. I ended up just having fun and messing with the edges too much on my Halloween one haha.

These are amazing!

I've never used silkscreened transfers. It looks like a really challenging place to apply them.

I hope everyone who sees this can understand just how finicky slab building is. It's really hard to avoid cracks especially with those scalloped edges. You did an amazing job.

I was so confused but then I lol'd.

Don't drop that or it'll break into peaces!

Just wait until you see the glaze on doughnuts! Jokey joke

I think personally my favorite project was combining brown and white clay to make a teapot; It basically looked like a vanilla chocolate swirl. I guess it's not something you're recommended to do your first class lol

Yeah pretty close! I think it's so cool you looked into it

That's a very interesting choice for a handle.

I was so intrigued yet confused by the shrek ear part but I think I understand that you are talking about something like this?

I have no idea of the history of the two forms and if they are related or independent but I think it's cool as hell that there is a traditional teapot form that has a similar handle:

The japanese ones tend to be a bit more Shrek like than the chinese, in case you are looking to optimize the Shrek-ness.

I think the focus makes it look wonky (as in, not smooth) but the shape was an intentional choice. It is based on an (inaccurate) memory of a mug by Edith Heath, with the handle set low in the mug. I read that the design was to allow the user to hold a cigarette in the same hand more easily. Turns out that's a myth and I don't smoke anyways, but I wanted to experiment with handle shapes and see how it impacted the use of the vessel. In her design, the top of the handle curves downwards:

Her mugs are cast, not sure about the handles but the handles are not cast in place. Mine was thrown, with a pulled handle.

Turns out I posted it earlier . I don't hate the form, I just hate the glaze.

Chili bowls are goated with this texture. Bonus points if there's a Shrek ear on the side so you can hold it with one hand and it keeps your hand warm.

I think the mug looks fantastic but the handle needs a little work unless it’s just perspective.

"Is that a scoring tool in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me?" "No, I am now bleeding from multiple puncture wounds, please fetch the first aid kit."

My sympathies as a fellow thing fiddler who's learnt the hard way not to.

I believe the traditional method is to line the walls.

Where do you put the money?

It's so we can make a bird bath

Okay, I definitely have to hand it to you. Your kiln is a lot bigger than mine. Bravo.

I'm sorry no-one else has pitched-in, on this one: it's an interesting question!

I'm wired fundamentally-differently than you are: for me the fundamental motivation is functional ( I've no means of doing pottery presently, but there was some wonderful, simple, Japanese stoneware I'd love to replicate, & .. OMG, Japanese porcelain can be gorgeous .. )

& the artistic is the inspiration/magic which the finished-work is embodying..

I can kinda understand your partner's "for that someone, that is needed" thing..

but making something for someone else means that one is answering a need in them, so it's .. kinda functional .. emotionally-functional, or something?

It's still got to be "functional", for me to have any motivation to make it, though..

even commenting on stuff: what's worth more than keen insights?

They weigh nothing, you can have scads of the things, & the more people who have good ones, the richer EVERYBODY is, together..

Functional, see?

Making the world happier is functional.

Making the world healthier is functional.

& other people find that making the world more hopeless is what they mean, or more suffering ( actual-sadism is a real force, as this world demonstrates )..

The nature of the motivation and the domain in which the motivation works & the frame-of-reference-of-the-motivation seem to decide it all..

You want a particular distortion-of-sentience, I want a particular distinctly-different distortion-of-sentience, in the ones among the resultant-world..

but it's still an expression of one's meaning, right?

( also, we have to keep in mind that people change: someone can suddenly have had enough of a particular motivation, dropping it & moving-on.. that too is natural )

_ /\ _

Oh shit I got confused because the other reply also had a user name that started with a b 😬

I can see that too!

I should start looking for more butts in the wild.

For me it was the first one - tan coloured with a hint of crack at the base.

Oh, okay! It says "Data Queen" and it's for a data analyst on my team. I will be sure to remark on how it resembles a buttocks when I give it to her!

The roundest/3rd looks the most buttock to me.

I just love how earthy these look:)

Which one?