Ron Philbeck Pottery

New Pots. Video.

2012-05-18T13:55:54Z

I'm getting ready for the Joara Pottery Festival which is happening tomorrow in Morganton, NC. I fired a small load of pots to add to my current inventory.

I have been enjoying making the Animal Jars. I thought this Bird Jar turned out great.

I'm working the inventory back up in the Etsy shop. You can click HERE to check it out. I listed several new pots in there this week including a Leaf Tray and a slip trailed Bell.

I've been a bit more active on my Ron Philbeck Pottery Facebook page than I have here lately. Click on over and LIKE me there. I'll be having some special offers for FB Friends on that page in the near future!!!

Thanks for checking in and Have a Good Weekend Everyone!!

Fun Video. Might Make You Dizzy

2012-05-11T12:49:09Z

Yesterday I saw a neat video made by David Chesar. I had to give it a try.

It was fun to make. I give complete credit to David Chesar for coming up with this concept. The camera is mounted to the batt on the wheelhead. I don't have an electric wheel so I had to stand up on the seat of my kick wheel and try and throw a pot. It wasn't easy, especially considering that the camera was whirling around on the side of the batt and I could have easily knocked it at any time. It's not a natural throwing position so I'm pretty happy that I got this simple cylinder made.

A fun thing to try. I hope it doesn't give you motion sickness.

Here's David's video

This is the set up I used to do the filming. Very professional...

Containment III at Crimson Laurel

2012-05-07T14:21:47Z

Containment III opened at Crimson Laurel Gallery in Bakersville, NC over the weekend. Here's the LINK to check out all the great work in the show. (I don't have anything in there, but I do have pots at CLG so go in there and check them out!!)

I really love this salt cellar by Richard Nickel

Plan

2012-05-03T20:46:53Z

I was working on these Animal Jars today. The Turtle gets a bit of a different slip treatment than the others since I like to leave his head and feet bare clay.

My brain was shuffling through the process of whether or not to stick the figure to the lid before or after slipping when I said out loud to myself, "You know Ron sometimes you've gotta plan ahead, otherwised your screwed." And I knew what to do.

I promise I have some nice images from the Thrown Together Sale to put on here. They are on my iPad and I have to move them. So that may happen soon, or later.

It was a very good weekend. Saturday was quite slow and I was worried that it was gonna be a bust but Sunday came and we had loads of folks show up!! Yay! Thanks if you were someone who came out either day. I sold two of my best pots on Sunday, a large jar and a large platter. That sure felt good.

It was our first time having both a Saturday and Sunday Sale. We usually just do Saturday from 10 till 4. I like to do it in one day and get if over with. But this time Sunday saved us all. Does anyone out there have any opinion about 2 day shows? I'm more interested in your thoughts as a customer. If it's only one day do you make a point to go out? or is a second day a good thing b/c then you have more of a choice? maybe the weather is good one day and not the next so you go on the good weather day. ?

Gotta get out and do some drawing. Thanks for reading!

Animal Jars

2012-04-30T23:09:19Z

The Thrown Together Sale went really great this past weekend. I'll put up some images and talk more about that later. For now I just wanted to get these Animal Jars up.

Getting Ready for Thrown Together Sale

2012-04-26T16:51:52Z

Hey folks, It's been a busy week but I feel like I have some breathing space here at the end.

As you can see below I am all packed up and ready to go. Feels good to be a bit ahead of schedule.

The Thrown Together Sale is this weekend
Saturday and Sunday 10 am till 5pm
1225 Dade Street, Charlotte NC

I have some really great work. I hope to see some of you there.

Gotta get Glazing

2012-04-23T11:42:32Z

I'll be glazing today. Here's a short video I made yesterday.

Thrown Together Spring Sale is this weekend
Saturday and Sunday 10 till 4

1225 Dade Street
Charlotte , NC

Works by Ron Philbeck, Julie Wiggins, Jennifer Mecca, Amy Sanders with guests, Jeff Martin, Kerry Gonzalez, and Stepahanie Martin.

Working towards the bisque

2012-04-21T02:17:41Z

Here is a short clip of what I got accomplished today.

Snap. Lost an Ear.

2012-04-20T00:38:19Z

I had jars under plastic that I needed to finish today. They all needed animals/birds so I got those modeled and put on first thing.

I rushed the slipping by a few hours and due to the wet clay and thick slip things got ugly.

So I scalped him, wiped all the slip off his head and did some ear replacement. He'll get a new slip job from the neck up tomorrow.

I went to my first Clay Club meeting last night. The meeting was held at WPCC in Morganton. We had a good turnout and it was fun to hang out with a bunch of my fellow clay people. (you know what I mean)

I had been asked to give a talk on the whole Online/Etsy/Facebook/etc/etc thing and how I use it all in my business. It went really well and there were lots of contributions made by the group. I think everyone had a good night.

I mixed up new test glazes today for the next firing. I'm wanting to start using the amber glaze more often but I'd like to have a couple variations of it, one light and one dark. I'm also testing a new clear glaze based on Ferro Frit 3195. That frit is pretty much a cone 04 glaze all on its own. I'll let you know how these turn out.

Making some Fun pots

2012-04-18T19:39:07Z

This is a film I shot yesterday (Wednesday) along with a few photos of the pots I made after getting inspired by Johannes Peter's work.

I mention George McCauley in the video. You can see George's website HERE and the video of him I mentioned HERE.