Kelly Averill Savino

Category: Pottery

  • Make 22: mug demos for my guild class.

    Demonstrated slip trailing (the bumpy one), agate wear (two colors at once, the green one) and a handbuilt textured slab mug printed with one of those long dogtag chains..

  • Make Seven: two more clay stoneware rattles.

    I worked at Hands On Studio today and taught at Toledo Potters Guild tonight — started more projects and demos — but finished these two small rattles. The one on the right is still wet clay.

  • Make Unlucky 13: The I’m-sick-and-I-wanna-go-home demo.

    My college ceramics class is doing a box from hard-leatherhard slabs with mitered edges. My demo has a drawer. I’m crabby and sick and I don’t want to be here today. Do you think it shows?

  • Make 9: Butter dish.

    Tonight’s slab project demo. Textured slab laid over a rolling pin for the cover… ends cut to fit. Textured slab base.  I just got home from mopping up after the evening class — but it isn’t midnight yet, so it’s still today! I was starting to worry. I painted half the bathroom today and started…

  • Make 8: Ceramics class demos

    Today’s Owens College demos: a tall cylinder form using a textured slab (pillow lid with rattly-balls inside) – on my clearly labeled shelf.  Also, I made some demo examples of signature chops, bisqued and ready to test.  I’m grateful that my work day involves making stuff, so I don’t have to miss a day of making things…

  • Make 6: Pinch pot demo.

                              This was a demo for pinch pots and burnishing for my Owens class. The photo is crooked and it makes me a little woozy.

  • Three days from zero to kiln arch: my soda kiln project at Wolf Lake, Labor Day weekend,

    This is the arch that Kelly built.

  • Soda Kiln Project

    This is the kiln form, on loan from a friend that holds up the walls til the keystone is in it sits up on wedges, to drop and be pulled as the test of the arch that Kelly built.

  • Soda Kiln Base

    This is the nice triple layer of brick on top of the cinderblocks,  heavy and thick with firebrick on top and low temp bricks beneath and a sheet of aluminum foil in between it’s the floor for the arch that Kelly built.

  • Kiln Bricks

    This is the trailer where Kelly lined bricks in their rows of 2000’s, 23s and 26 the three kinds of arch bricks, in rows new and used while the slab of cement had a chance to firm up as the base of the arch that Kelly built.

  • Kiln Grandma

    This is the grandma at ninety and four with a Michigan license who rode to the store and rented the mixer for pouring the slab as the base for the arch that Kelly built.

  • Kiln foundation

    This is the hole that was dug for the slab for the base of the arch that Kelly built

  • Kiln build site

    This is the clearing up north by the lake by the cottage of parents who said it was great  as the spot for the arch that Kelly built.

  • Lobster Casserole (the clay kind)

    (The casserole I made for my mom for mother’s day) Jeff and the kids headed for the lake yesterday, but I had to teach at the guild last night. I’m rattling around the house today beginning projects, trying to stick to my list, hoping to get to the lake by suppertime. Today’s synchronicity appears to…