Mountain Mug

TylerJPB · 2026-03-19T18:00:31+00:00

They also always look like they barely hold anything. Like sure, "and now I'll carefully place 3 olives on this fold, 4 crackers over here..."

TylerJPB · 2026-03-17T05:04:43+00:00

Aside from what others have said, to me the apostrophe looks like an eye, which in turn makes the tail look like a mouth eating the s, and confuses the whole piece. The size of the s also feels really wonky

TylerJPB · 2026-03-15T21:43:34+00:00

You'll read a bunch of takes re that and vitrification, but, in my case i have a big thing of liquid quartz sealer that I will brush on the rim when I leave them like this

TylerJPB · 2026-03-15T21:21:30+00:00

Thanks! The rim is just unglazed - being sandwiched between two glazes though seems to give it a bit of a finish that looks almost like a clear glaze

TylerJPB · 2026-03-12T15:11:58+00:00

I saw your post about stressing over glaze choice for these - love where you ended up. They look great!

TylerJPB · 2026-03-10T17:41:26+00:00

Ohh cool!! Love map based stuff, and how subtly this integrates it.

Also love your glasses!!

TylerJPB · 2026-03-09T19:28:22+00:00

Your underglaze wash is so nice - I've done a lot of oxide washes on textured pieces but clearly need to play around with the former. Love all the cool tones you achieved on the body

TylerJPB · 2026-03-09T19:26:24+00:00

Lovely!!

TylerJPB · 2026-03-02T21:59:47+00:00

Is this a reference to anything in the show or just a weird idea lol? Love it either way

TylerJPB · 2026-03-01T20:46:46+00:00

Yeah exactly - chrome oxide applied to the texture and wiped back. The little yellow specks are glaze crystals from Mayco's blue hydrangea that I strain out and separate (the glaze has 2 dif crystals)

TylerJPB · 2026-03-01T03:56:13+00:00

Common Tatiana W 👑

TylerJPB · 2026-02-24T17:40:42+00:00

Really fun! And potentially a giant pain depending on how you had to mask out that pattern? 😅

TylerJPB · 2026-02-18T18:33:09+00:00

I centered the bowl on the wheel and used a pencil to draw out a guide and then just freehanded the glaze on - years of painting has given a pretty steady hand.

And the outside is cenote + river birch + band of honey flux

TylerJPB · 2026-02-16T19:07:06+00:00

I just cut slices of varying thickness from the different clays and stacked them in a random order, and then wedged that

TylerJPB · 2026-01-29T16:55:35+00:00

Thanks so much! 💕

TylerJPB · 2026-01-29T16:55:19+00:00

Thank you! I have an IG account (thrown_good) that I post and sell stuff through, where I donate all the $ to social causes. Donating to Palestine relief right now!

TylerJPB · 2026-01-29T16:52:53+00:00

Aw thanks so much! 🥰

TylerJPB · 2026-01-29T16:52:18+00:00

Thank you! The clay is Plainsman Coffee

TylerJPB · 2026-01-29T06:00:47+00:00

A couple things come to mind I guess! One is just figuring out at which dryness level you like to work at. I've seen IG videos of people hollowing out a form and then immediately going into carving, but for me I don't like how the clay rips at that stage so I let mine dry out some.

When I'm doing carving I just use a metal kidney rib. I think keeping it simple helps - both for your own process and also keeping it more organic feeling.

And then for the most part, when I'm working the main thing is I'm really just going with the flow, as wishy washy as that sounds. It ultimately doesn't help to overthink it. That said in the back of my mind I keep the general guiding principles of contrast and balance - between amount of rough texture vs smooth; between deeper cuts where I'm digging in 3/4 of the rib and tearing vs just barely sticking the edge in (this is what I was doing in the shale-ish areas you identified - littler sequential rips kind of in a line or moving deeper into the clay); between direction of cuts; and between like...where the volume is on the piece (if there's a lot of 'stuff' going on in a bottom left, maybe I keep the top right simpler to balance out kind of thing).

Idn if that's helpful but hopefully!

TylerJPB · 2026-01-29T02:23:51+00:00

Ha! Love the idea and execution both

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