MB Pottery

MB Pottery

@mb-pottery.com

👋 I'm Magdalena. 🔥 I've started pottery as a hobby a couple years back and I want to make it my life ;) ✈️ I've recently moved from the USA to Portugal and I'm slowly figuring out how to live here. 🛍️ https://mb-pottery.com 🗺️ Aveiro, Portugal

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MB Pottery
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#throwback This summer I tried raku for the first time, which is a very hot and violent firing process! 🔥🔥🔥 I attended a two-part workshop led by Portuguese artists Maria João Cravo (hand building class) and Yola Vale (raku glazing and firing). They are great! #pottery

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My most recent favorite coffee cup ♥️ I miss it so much as it sits in a storage container waiting on me to be done with travels and to complete my move to Europe. #handmade #pottery

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One of the last items I made before closing my studio. It's the biggest thing I made, it covered the whole 12in bat and I had to fire it directly on the bottom bricks in my kiln. I was pretty lucky that it fit in, as I didn't measure the kiln beforehand and I forgot the thermocouple sticks out 🤦‍♀️

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It's handbuilt (not thrown on a wheel) from speckled Laguna B-mix clay that was sitting abandoned in my studio for 2 years. I think this clay was a really good match for this project :) #handmade #pottery

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These are the screen grabs of probably the last newsletter email I've sent for a long while. I'm moving across the ocean and I have no idea if and when I'll be able to re-establish a pottery studio. mb-pottery.com #pottery #handmade #sale #lastchance

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In the meantime, I will practice lower effort art forms, like drawing (just notebook and a pencil, no mud melting devices). I'm just unsure if I should post my future bad art trials on the pottery account. What do you think?

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Week 2 of the Moving Sale! The discount is now 20%! mb-pottery.com #handmade #pottery #sale

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I'm moving - please take ceramics off of my shelves! As I'm moving across the pond, I'll be closing my store indefinitely. I have no idea when I'll be able to re-establish a pottery studio. mb-pottery.com/collections/... #handmade #pottery #sale

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1/ Hand-building and glaze-making 2-in-1. These two were waiting for glazing for months. I was really afraid of ruining the forms with some random glazes, and so we waited. #pottery #handbuilding #glazemaking #potteryglaze

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2/ I decided to wait until I encounter a glaze that I like AND that I tested on some bud vases (to have basic understanding of how it might behave). I like the outcome! And I'm so glad I was able to unstuck myself over artistic fears :)

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It's today! It's now! #makersmarket #market #sale #seattle #yesler

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1/2 ~ my first market ~ Dear friends and Seattleites, this coming Sat I'm participating in my first market! Please, come say hi and lend some emotional support ❤️ and check out other vendors at the outdoor courtyard at Yesler & Broadway, 11am-3pm, Sep 20th. #handmade #ceramics #market #makersmarket

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Leslie Siebert
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I carved this sea urchin- inspired piece the other day. (Not sure why I can’t post the video) Excited to get it out of the bisque so I can glaze. I’m thinking red iron oxide on the outside, and a blue glaze inside 🪼 #pottery #art #carving #seaurchin #bowl

MB Pottery
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1/2 ~ my first market ~ Dear friends and Seattleites, this coming Sat I'm participating in my first market! Please, come say hi and lend some emotional support ❤️ and check out other vendors at the outdoor courtyard at Yesler & Broadway, 11am-3pm, Sep 20th. #handmade #ceramics #market #makersmarket

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Ashley Austin
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And here’s the companion to the devil! Couldn’t make a demon without an angel counterpart 😳 #pottery #ceramics #sculpture #doll #dollhead #artist #art #ceramicsculpture #clay

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Store update coming Sunday, Sep 14th @ 2pm PT 📢 Many Squiggly Wiggly Mugs and several Doodle Mugs will be available, see examples below ~~~ #handmade #pottery

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Fox and Forge Farm
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Rustic, handmade & wildly colourful. Rainbow lorikeets in brushstrokes — on platters + a serving bowl that feels like summer. Made with love in Australia. 🌈🖐️✨ Which bird should land next? #Ceramics #Handmade #RainbowLorikeet #Pottery #ArtForTheTable #BlueSkyCeramics #BirdArt #RusticVibes #SlowMade

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I'll have a couple unique doodle mugs in the next store update. They turn out really cute but recently I'm more in the mood for glaze experimentation. I think I'm kind of winding down mug making for the year and getting "back to basics" - practice & experiment. #pottery #handmade

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A cute transparent green and a less cute transparent green: V.C. Transparent Green 3 and Steve's Gloss Green - both page 108 from Britt's △6 book. I like tile #614 the most where the bubbles in the glaze are locked in and cast shadows. #pottery #potteryglaze #britt6

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I keep playing with the Robin's Egg glaze. Here is a comparison: - by itself - under a clear gloss - on top of clear gloss #pottery #potteryglaze #britt6

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Robin's Egg - Britt's △6 book p/108 This is my bestest discovery in Britt's book so far! It motivates me to make some more bud vases, as it's definitely not food safe 🥲 glazy.org/materials/59... #potteryglaze #britt6

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Phase separation study I thought I needed titanium dioxide (or rutile) to get a variegated glaze look. Not really! TiO2 facilitates phase separation but it's not strictly necessary. Details in the thread. #pottery #potteryglaze

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With little alumina and lots of silica, the glaze becomes opaque white (no color response) and it's very fluid. As more alumina is added, we see stronger color response (the tiles become light blue), less fluidity, and more transparency (no phase separation).

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Nice phase separation (variegated glaze with white streaks in transparent glaze) happened around tile #562. In the future I'd like to "zoom in" around that tile and create glazes between #562 and #566 or #562 and #563. Interestingly, bottom left glaze shows some opalescence.

MB Pottery
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Phase separation study I thought I needed titanium dioxide (or rutile) to get a variegated glaze look. Not really! TiO2 facilitates phase separation but it's not strictly necessary. Details in the thread. #pottery #potteryglaze

MB Pottery
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This is a classic silica vs alumina grid: up = more alumina, right = more silica. Other glaze ingredients don't change, including a little bit of blue mason stain to show color response. This recipe has no TiO2 or other classic opacifiers, yet gets pretty opaque as more silica is added.

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Long time no see 👋 I'm thinking about a store update in August but who knows. I'm taking things easy. I'd rather go too slow than burnout! 🤞 #pottery #handmade

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John's Jade I - Britt's △6 book p/108 Interesting surface with a mix of glossy and matte (slow cooled) which shifts the color toward turquoise. I wouldn't use it on functional pieces due to: high R2O:RO ratio, high copper content, crazing. Details: glazy.org/recipes/592947 #potteryglaze #britt6