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Blue Starr Gallery

http://www.bluestarrgallery.blogspot.com/

Sharing my clay discoveries in functional and sculptural ceramics and pottery, and ceramic beads.

• Added on: Mar 31st, 2008
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Author: Blue Starr Gallery
• Listed in: Ceramics Photography
• Tags: Photography sculpture jewelry pottery ceramics ceramic beads

Recent Posts

• Easy Hump Mold

  Posted on Friday December 4th, 2009 at 21:57 in blue starr gallery, easy hump mold, linda starr, paper plate hump mold

  Red Textured Bowl by Linda Starrslab built, 1.25 x 6 inches, cone 10 reductionSeveral years ago I made this red bowl with an easy hump mold. I used half and half clay, textured the slab, and scalloped the edges. I decided to try using paper bowls as ...

• Crazy for Clay

  Posted on Thursday December 3rd, 2009 at 21:25 in linda starr, blue starr gallery, pinch bowls, cassius basaltic clay, texas white clay, crazy for clay

  cassius basaltic clay pinch bowl, 4 x 9 inchesQuite by accident, one of my glazes formed a unique surface on a very black clay, cassius basaltic. I called the surface moon craters. Ever since then I've been thinking of how I could use the moon crater...

• Mooney Grove Museum

  Posted on Wednesday December 2nd, 2009 at 09:19 in linda starr, blue starr gallery, mooney grove museum

  Now that I'm no longer a farmer I had time to visit Mooney Grove Museum in Visalia. As I walked through the museum I was impressed with how self sufficient and creative early Native Americans were, making use of the natural elements available to them...

• Bird Man

  Posted on Monday November 30th, 2009 at 12:24 in lola, jose, wichita lineman, kama, linda starr, blue starr gallery, glenn campbell, pottery mound, ancient pueblo people

  The much anticipated Bird Man appeared briefly the other day. Luckily I was able to capture a quick photo just before he had to leave. His bird is a young African Grey Parrot. Parrots have been kept as pets for over 4000 years, being depicted in hier...

• Nerikome

  Posted on Saturday November 28th, 2009 at 21:16 in robin hopper, linda starr, blue starr gallery, black mountain clay, nerikome, faith rahill, neriage, b mix clay

  Nerikome Plate by Linda Starrslab built, 6 x 6 inches, cone 10 reductionA few months ago I experimented by inlaying thin strips of B Mix clay into Black Mountain clay. I wasn't sure if this would work and didn't know this is an ancient technique call...

• Cathedral Window Bowl

  Posted on Tuesday November 24th, 2009 at 10:22 in art, craft, umber, linda starr, ochre, blue starr gallery, cathedral window bowl

  Cathedral Window Bowl by Linda Starr1.5 x 12 x 12 incheshandbuilt, slip, glaze, cone 10 reductionWhen I was about 12 years old my grandmother tried to teach me a paper piecing method to make a Cathedral Window quilt. At the time the method seemed too...

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Sami Haddad

excellent blog. will be back to read more of your blog

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