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| Bulldog Pottery, Seagrove, NC |
Daffie Days is this weekend on April 4-5, 2014. Our Bulldog Pottery shop is located at 3306 US Hwy 220 Alt. Seagrove, NC 27341. We are located 5 miles south from the town of Seagrove's traffic light. Look for the large blue water tower and our driveway is right beside it. Take the gravel driveway to our pottery shop. See you soon!
The exploration of the vase form is fascinating to us, with so many possible nuances. Vases as well as the bottle forms provide us with such a diversity of great silhouettes for our glazes. We enjoy the process of the search, and experimentation involved in looking and testing for new colors and glaze effects. Testing original glaze formulas takes a lot of time, and we have to figure out how to squeeze in a couple of more days to get the test glazing accomplished. Usually when the tests come out there is hopefully at least one that can work, and the others will have to go back to the drawing board. Below is an assortment of some of the glaze tests that we pulled out from the last two kiln firings.
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| Glaze tests, Bulldog Pottery, Seagrove, NC |
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| Samantha and a table full of vases, Bulldog Pottery, Seagrove, NC |
The glazes that we apply to our vases are very fluid and it takes time prepping the rings so they fit just right onto the bottom of the vases. Below Bruce is carving the rings thinner so when cutting the ring off the vase after the glaze firing there is less chance for a mishap.
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| Bruce finishing clay rings for the vases, Bulldog Pottery, Seagrove, NC |
Koi insists on sleeping on Bruce's table while he works. Sometimes this is just fine and we let her but other times she messes with the wet pots and is banned from table sleeping.
Luna Bella has settled right in. She loves to be with us in the studio. She is very active and has been a wonderful puppy. Luna Bella and Koi have a great relationship and we think they will be long time friends. Sometimes Koi will even push objects off of the table just for Luna Bella to chew.
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| Luna Bella, Bulldog Pottery, Seagrove, NC |
We currently have this lovely pink centered daffodil blooming, and the color is enchanting.
1 comment:
never saw a pink centered daffodil before, just lovely
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