So appreciate your sharing and vulnerability. Of course as life changes, things come and things go. Proud of you sharing your faith and struggles. Praying God guides you and we know he will. What's that old saying, when one door closes, he opens a window. Keep looking up. As long as your gaining continued happiness from it. You know the sad old adage of the starving artists. If your dependent on this for your livelihood and things aren't going well you may want to consider a change, but if it's more for personal enjoyment. Just let it come to you. Sometimes the struggles are good, stretching us, possibly taking us in new directions 👍🙏🤔 Thanks again for sharing🙏❤️👍👍

Thanks for sharing. My girlfriend is looking into getting a wheel and found this one for sale. Great, great job.

Thanks so much for sharing your review 👍👍

Is the premium gold way shinier than the other gold they offer?

thank you, i've been looking for advice on how to fix pinholes and this is perfect!

Thanking for letting us listen. I don’t thank any artist stays completely comfortably in there work and at some point struggles. The harder the struggle the more spiritual growth we have. Sorry, so cliché. Have full confidence you will be better and look forward to seeing the next artist in you.

It’s good to share and be open when things are transitional, especially as a lot of artists just show the ‘pretty aesthetic’. I don’t know if you’ve read The Artist’s Way, but since doing daily morning pages, I’ve become so much more inspired and motivated by my hectic creative brain, and sitting with my thoughts and ideas and scribbling can really help bring those ideas through. Whether it’s the universe or a god, something is telling you that something is coming, so I’m excited to see where you go. You got this Annie, reach out if you ever just want to sit and chat. You have us any time 🫶

Thanks for sharing the “messy middle”. I love the behind the scenes/ artist process perspective. Sad news about your favorite clay 😢 Glad you are committed to finding a way forward!

Can you do a video to avoid crazing pls. I love your explanation here and seem to be getting crazing specifically with Coyote glaze.

Is it an artistic choice that your glaze is always so thick ? I tend to see this problem with a lot of "young" potters, but you're experienced, so I was wondering.

Hi!! Thank you I'm going to try to refire it again at slow with a 10 min hold. I've never done that but besides the pinhole issue there is another piece where I missed some glaze at the lip so I hope that can help solve that too!

What kiln are you using

Thank you for alleviating my concerns about refiring our pieces haha My daughter and i have just gotten into clay and our glaze application was less than perfect 🤣

Aww that seemed like such fun, intense haha but fun!

Hi! If you use bat systems, does it make it sit above the splash pan? I use a combination of studio pro bats and the dirty girl system. Thank you!

Pottery throw down sounds like fun, hope you have lots of it and sure you will do well. A children’s class! more fun. Your nail polish color would be a nice highlight color on those cups🙂

Beautiful!

Good

Very nice colors used, really like them. Being a potter understand how disappointing it can be to have glaze poor off your pieces. Take joy in the work that did come out.

Glad to hear that the writing will be in smaller steps. Trying to figure out a trilogy with all the facets and depth as you were doing would be overwhelming daunting. A character has many things that surround there life and place in time. And without even thinking about it a clay creation may come to mind. Wish you the best on your journey. Waiting for the next steps.

🥰 Hello and Happy Wednesday to you my friend You are looking very happy these days I want to say you do an amazing job on your channel 🎉 Love your channel and sending Hugs from Florida 🤗🤗💋💋

I love trimming!! I would say its my favorite part, but I really love every part 😂 wedging, throwing, cleaning up, trimming, glazing, all of it brings so much joy!

They turned out so cute, I’ve never tried throwing off the hump, but when I start potting again in spring I’ll have a go, didn’t realise how effective these tiny cups can look! Thanks for sharing, take care xx

These are so sweet!! They turned out beautifully. That light bluish glaze with the yellow speckles is STUNNING!!!

Very nice ! Your mica inclusions into terra sig created a potassium rich sig , so in reduction you got attic black Ancient Greek pots 🤓👍 nice video ! Thanks for sharing

For the difficulties removing the wheelhead, try brushing a little anti-seize grease or "waterproof" bicycle grease or oil on the mounting point for the head. Anti-seize will last a long time between applications, and so will, say, Paul's Waterproof bicycle grease, NFS (Need For Speed) bicycle chain lubricant, and Silca Synergetic and Synerg-e chain lubes. All are made for high tenacity and water resistance, and will prevent corrosion if you clean off any that's already occurred before you apply them. Personally, I'd use anti-seize because it's cheap, available at every hardware store and auto shop, lasts seemingly forever, and is super effective. It won't make it slippery between the metal surfaces, though, so it won't facilitate easier removal like the others. If Skutt advises against the use of lubricants, you might check with them regarding anti-seize. It's formulated specifically not to affect manufacturing tolerances and applied torques.

I would like to ask, if Raku burning process happens when the clay is dry after a week or wet?

Like your pottery and blog. Thank you for sharing

Watching you at the studio is very peaceful (I am sure the audio added to it) Thanks for sharing 😊

To help the wheel head from getting hard to take off Skutt says to use a little grease. I flip the head over and put grease where the pins go and the shaft area. Haven’t had any problems and the wheel is over two years old. Thank you for the review.

Thank you for shown use and the inspiration, have not seen this technique before and looks like lots of possibilities using it. Appreciate the research. Very talented.

A standing ovation for this brilliance!

beautiful, what do you use to burn?

I’m glad for you making this move bringing both your loves/arts together. Looking forward to seeing the creations.

This is Raku ?

So calming watching you work 🥰

How long will a bottle of gold Luster last you? Just curious thanks

I have been asked a lot of questions on this video! This was just a fun video series to show the whole process of the dragon egg mugs. If you want videos on HOW TO LUSTER please check out these videos. Tools you need to luster watch here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/os1pd7Shla-5ZZc.html How to luster: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qpxyfaSJxrivYZ8.html

****Mistake in video!!! It is grams of mica Not Oz!!****

I've found that clays that contain manganese tend to be more prone to pinholes (like your brown clay). In such cases, a drop and hold helps a lot. The manganese will off-gas. Dropping down about 100 degrees from the top temperature stops the volatilization process, and holding at that temperature for 30 - 45 minutes gives the glaze time to heal over. Also with a drop and hold, vs. a hold, you don't have quite the heat work because you're not holding at top temp. Any hold will increase heat work, so firing schedules may need adjusting to account for that. I have not found the higher bisque temperature to help, unless the glaze defect is from too thick of a coat of glaze or the bisqueware absorbing too much water and not drying out. Higher bisque will cause less absorption. Another thing I did in the past was to sub Ferro Frit 3134 for up to half of the Gerstley Borate on certain glazes. That won't help people who use premixed glaze though. Thanks for posting this. I would love to hear your thoughts on this.

Love it! One clarification.. that was oz and not grams of mica?

These are so cool! What kiln do you use??

I love this kiln! Súper! Beautiful results!

I use a kickwheel almost exclusively. In exchange for a tiny bit of exercise, I get a lovely quiet throwing experience.

Is a pottery wheel just foot powered??

There's any tutorial to have this silver glaze effect? I've never seen this before.

absolutely heartbreaking to lose so much data, especially the book! it takes a monumental effort to pick ourselves back up after loss like that; glad to see you were able to bring yourself to start again

Being a flowerpot shop we have a "red clay" station and a "white clay"station ..We have three wheels each with its own station ..If you get a second wheel the Shimpos are very quiet and you will loose less time working at not having cross contamination ...