I know it’s just bad lighting, but I like how this bowl glows in the first picture. it brings to mind a choir of angels. The weight and shape is pretty great, so I guess that’s appropriate. Hello, I am John Mallon, a ceramicist, and I get excited about bowls. If you went back in time 3 years and told me this was how things would be I would have thought you were messing with me.
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I know it’s just bad lighting, but I like how this bowl glows in the first picture. it brings to mind a choir of angels. The weight and shape is pretty great, so I guess that’s appropriate. Hello, I am John Mallon, a ceramicist, and I get excited about bowls. If you went back in time 3 years and told me this was how things would be I would have thought you were messing with me.
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I know it’s just bad lighting, but I like how this bowl glows in the first picture. it brings to mind a choir of angels. The weight and shape is pretty great, so I guess that’s appropriate. Hello, I am John Mallon, a ceramicist, and I get excited about bowls. If you went back in time 3 years and told me this was how things would be I would have thought you were messing with me.
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I know it’s just bad lighting, but I like how this bowl glows in the first picture. it brings to mind a choir of angels. The weight and shape is pretty great, so I guess that’s appropriate.

Hello, I am John Mallon, a ceramicist, and I get excited about bowls. If you went back in time 3 years and told me this was how things would be I would have thought you were messing with me.

It’s a fancy modified bowl! The top picture looks like it’s been put through some instagram filter. It’s pretty weird. The technique is similar to the faceted bowls I posted earlier, except I screwed up and did the cutting parallel to the direction I stretched it in. Instead of distorting and widening the facets, it stretches along the lines, and they get stressed and break up, a bit like a sodium silicate pot. Still a neat effect, especially when filled with black slip.
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It’s a fancy modified bowl! The top picture looks like it’s been put through some instagram filter. It’s pretty weird. The technique is similar to the faceted bowls I posted earlier, except I screwed up and did the cutting parallel to the direction I stretched it in. Instead of distorting and widening the facets, it stretches along the lines, and they get stressed and break up, a bit like a sodium silicate pot. Still a neat effect, especially when filled with black slip.
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It’s a fancy modified bowl! The top picture looks like it’s been put through some instagram filter. It’s pretty weird. The technique is similar to the faceted bowls I posted earlier, except I screwed up and did the cutting parallel to the direction I stretched it in. Instead of distorting and widening the facets, it stretches along the lines, and they get stressed and break up, a bit like a sodium silicate pot. Still a neat effect, especially when filled with black slip.
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It’s a fancy modified bowl! The top picture looks like it’s been put through some instagram filter. It’s pretty weird. The technique is similar to the faceted bowls I posted earlier, except I screwed up and did the cutting parallel to the direction I stretched it in. Instead of distorting and widening the facets, it stretches along the lines, and they get stressed and break up, a bit like a sodium silicate pot.


Still a neat effect, especially when filled with black slip.

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It’s my birthday, and I can post off topic content if I want to, because I am the birthday king.

Sorry I haven’t been updating much the past week.

I haven’t been making a lot of finished work lately. Too much time spent preparing what I do have to be shown and sold, and I need an order of clay to arrive before I can do any new work. I see I have a few new followers (I’m very near to 150 now.) and I just wanted to say hi, and point you in the direction of The Archives.

Maybe we can get some of those oldies-but-goldies back in circulation. In the mean time, hang tight; Beanman updates are forthcoming. Maybe shoot me an ask? Those are always fun.

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Q:How did you get into pottery? What goals do you have for it?

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It was my second year in community college. I was in a transfer program to study engineering at UVA, slowly becoming burnt out from the workload and realizing I had no passion for what I was doing. My friend, who was looking to transfer to VCU’s dental hygiene program needed a hands on art elective, and she asked me if I was interested in taking it too. I always enjoyed working with clay when I got the chance to, but I hadn’t had a proper art class since middle school. (I spent four years of high school taking drafting classes, if that counts for anything.)

So I took the class, and it really clicked. Fast forward two years and I’m still taking a 1 credit independent study class every semester. I switched to a general studies AS because I decided I wanted to study horticultural science, and now I wish I’d switched into the art program. I’m sure I’ll change my mind again, because that’s what I do.

Spring art festival at school yesterday. I spent about 6-7 hours doing demonstrations on the potter’s wheel. It was very fun. I think I captured the imaginations of a lot of young minds, and that makes me feel cool. Pictured above is a table of mostly my own work, with a few other students jumbled in. We were in such a hurry we didn’t get much time to scramble the work. Works out for picture taking purposes, though. In general noone seemed to be interested in mugs yesterday. Cheap or expensive. I had a friend who had a dozen matching mugs all for less than 10 dollars, and he sold maybe 3. When people would ask where my stuff was, I’d gesture at the table and they’d invariably pick up one of the 5 pieces on the table by someone else.
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Spring art festival at school yesterday. I spent about 6-7 hours doing demonstrations on the potter’s wheel. It was very fun. I think I captured the imaginations of a lot of young minds, and that makes me feel cool. Pictured above is a table of mostly my own work, with a few other students jumbled in. We were in such a hurry we didn’t get much time to scramble the work. Works out for picture taking purposes, though. In general noone seemed to be interested in mugs yesterday. Cheap or expensive. I had a friend who had a dozen matching mugs all for less than 10 dollars, and he sold maybe 3. When people would ask where my stuff was, I’d gesture at the table and they’d invariably pick up one of the 5 pieces on the table by someone else.
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Spring art festival at school yesterday. I spent about 6-7 hours doing demonstrations on the potter’s wheel. It was very fun. I think I captured the imaginations of a lot of young minds, and that makes me feel cool. Pictured above is a table of mostly my own work, with a few other students jumbled in. We were in such a hurry we didn’t get much time to scramble the work. Works out for picture taking purposes, though. In general noone seemed to be interested in mugs yesterday. Cheap or expensive. I had a friend who had a dozen matching mugs all for less than 10 dollars, and he sold maybe 3. When people would ask where my stuff was, I’d gesture at the table and they’d invariably pick up one of the 5 pieces on the table by someone else.
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Spring art festival at school yesterday. I spent about 6-7 hours doing demonstrations on the potter’s wheel. It was very fun. I think I captured the imaginations of a lot of young minds, and that makes me feel cool. Pictured above is a table of mostly my own work, with a few other students jumbled in. We were in such a hurry we didn’t get much time to scramble the work. Works out for picture taking purposes, though.


In general noone seemed to be interested in mugs yesterday. Cheap or expensive. I had a friend who had a dozen matching mugs all for less than 10 dollars, and he sold maybe 3.


When people would ask where my stuff was, I’d gesture at the table and they’d invariably pick up one of the 5 pieces on the table by someone else.