Smaller Pots for the November Shows

The San Gabriel Valley Cactus and Succulent Show is November 1 and 2, and the Xiem Clay Center Fall Sale is November 14 and 15.  I'll be at both and have been dividing up pots to decide which pot goes where.  There are about a dozen waiting to be glazed, four drying, but probably missing the San Gabriel Show, and another dozen that need to be finished this week.  I have flats of sale plants ready to go and have more or less picked out the show plants, with three or four to be potted this weekend. I'll photograph these next weekend.

On to recent pots.  Nearly all of these were done in a single working session with 50 pounds of clay turned into 2 1/2 by 5 inch pots.

A Yellow magnesium glaze with brown streaks from iron inclusions.

Same clay with a white glossy glaze spotted without streaks.

This is a first run of something that is bound to be repeated.  A matte green on a dark iron clay.

A different clay body, the darker body does not take stain well.  This is an iron stain on a stoneware body.

A Carbon Trap Shino with great iron spotting, one of my favorites for this clay.

There are other shapes and sizes as well.  There are 4 1/2 by 3 inches, great for conophytum and other miniatures with shallow roots.

Finally a couple of larger pots, the left about 8 inches tall and 4 inches in diameter, light stoneware with iron stain.  The right a mix of light a dark clays.