Luke Whitmore

Hand-built ceramic vessels. Form, surface, repetition.

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05 February 2026 Tagged: greenware, materials, process

Porcelain paper clay. First construction.

I'd started this the night before and worked too quickly (and built too high). While the clay seems to have a fair amount of heft to it, the weight (and gravity) worked against me.

Current approach; base is cut, thicker based coils, thinner for the walls .. doubled up some of the thinner to create graduation.

Main intention is to get a fairly even distribution of clay.

Hatching is to help knit coils .. quite like the similarity to knitted garment. Was asked if I was going to lean into texture. Definitely not yet.

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