Pottery

Some further ideas.

Glaze selection examples? Colors? Finishes?

Do you have the ability to attach smaller pieces to the pottery? for example, the renfaire suviniers, I think have a circular sigil type things attached to them.  Perhaps round sigils attached to goblets etc... that display the mark of the four lands, travance, holy symbols, stuff like that.

Perhaps a religious font?

Just trying to think of ideas to make them desirable in-game as well as out of game.

I will likely order a goblet as a centerpiece for my fireplace mantle... but trying to think of some other cool in-game uses.

My goodness, if theirs one thing I'm glad has come out of all of this it is the number of new ideas you fine folks are flooding to me both here and via pm. So to answer some of your questions James here goes.

Glaze selection- My studio is woefully low on glazes. I do the majority of my glaze work at the home of the potter I'm apprenticed to. His palette is fairly diverse but I could not hope to name them all. One thing a prospective collector could do is request a specific commercial glaze be used, or, something close to it. Amaco and Duncan commercial glazes are typically what I use when the piece calls for commercial glaze. Both companies have extensive lines of glazes available for all different types of pottery. The easiest way to figure out what glaze you think you want would be to google Duncan Glaze or Amaco Glaze and view some test tiles online. Once you find one you like I can see if I have access to it, something close to it, or need to purchase it for the piece. Odds are, If you want the color, then someone else will too so I have no problem purchasing it for future work.

Once I have a larger selection of glazes (Entirely dependent upon whether or not I can sell enough) I will begin firing test tiles with various types of clays to bring to events so that you fine folks can see exactly what it would look like.

Colors- Glaze can create color, but so can other things. Slips and engobes for example, which are colored liquid clay poured or trailed onto a piece, can add depth and color. They also lend themselves to the process of Sgraffito, a style of decoration popular in ancient Greece and Rome as well as early America.

Stains can produce colors directly on clay while not granting it a glossy sheen.

Both stains and engobes can be placed under glazes to produce color layering effect.

At this point in reading you should definitely find some google images for Sgraffito and whats called slip trailing or slip feathering. Really nice effects.

Small pieces attached to the pottery? Appliques? Truth be told I've never done them, but they happen to by my master potters specialty. With the proper tools I could definitely produce some interesting appliques. Metal and rubber stamps, especially metal stamps for tooling leather, work really well when trying to make a neat imprint on something.

I'm sketching a font to Andorra already. Thanks for the idea.

Just bought 100 pounds more clay today, Low fire earthenware red and high fire baldwin, a grey clay that fires to light pink to buff dependent on temp. I'm gonna have some fun these next few weeks.

So, I decided to put some prices up on my Flickr for my work. A number of them have sold already but their ares till a bunch available. Also, bear in mind that for any of you KR types, the offer of *price negotiable* still stands. Christmas is right around the corner for me and I've got 4 dollars to my name, so most offered prices will be accepted prices(within reason of course). Also, winter is the time for commissions folks! A number of you have pm'ed me with ideas and orders and I thank you, but I wish to impress on all others who might be thinking of having something made that the time is nigh. Winter will drive me deep into my studio where I will do little else than throw pots.

Oh, and if any of you stumble upon a cool idea but don't necessarily want to commission it, please feel free to tell me it so I can expand my bank of ideas.

I'm sketching a font to Andorra already. Thanks for the idea.

I'd buy it!
Yeah!

I was having kind of a rough day earlier, and then I saw this.

I'm sketching a font to Andorra already. Thanks for the idea.

I'd buy it!
Yeah!

It wasn't the idea that you'd buy it that made me happy, It was the little movie in my head of your forum picture with that smile getting all excited about a holy water font. How come more people don't get excited about Andorra?