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J.VanO.Ceramics
@jvanoceramics.com
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Spending my days playing with clay!
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Recently my family took a trip to Costa Rica. We had the opportunity to take a class in Chorotega. It was so fun learning about the traditional way they make their pottery and giving it a try.
A woman sitting at a hand turned pottery wheel made from gears and other parts throwing a small bowl.
July 30, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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This background is painted with underglaze referencing a photo taken on my phone. I think my children love riding with me at sunset. Anytime I think the sky is notably interesting, I have them take photos of it. Sometimes more than once as we drive along and the sky changes.
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May 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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This mug reminds me of countryside drives.
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A mug with a relief ribbon that separates a sunset scene with the silhouette of a farm on the bottom and a black glaze with purple layered in on top. Another view of the mug showing the relief ribbon as it slants from top to bottom. The top half is a black glaze with purple layered in. The bottom half shows the silhouette of a tree that was part of a sunset scene of a farm.
May 20, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Celebrating contrast: glossy vs. matte and black vs. light purple.

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A tall black mug with three relief ribbons sectioning off two waves of lighter purples. The top section is a glossy light purple with slight variations of color; this wave of color is much thicker at the top where it reaches to about 3/4 of the way up and then swoops down to the bottom quarter of the cup where it thins out. There is a matte light purple wave of color beneath the glossy section.
May 5, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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The final result of the last post. I just pulled it from the kiln on Friday!

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This mug that has a relief ribbon that separates the top portion from the bottom portion. The top portion is a flowing blend of black, blue and green glaze colors. The bottom portion is a hand painted orca swimming through sunlit water. This is a slightly turned view of the same mug that has a relief a ribbon that separates the top portion from the bottom portion. The top portion is a flowing blend of black, blue and green glaze colors. The bottom portion is the hand painted orca with its calf swimming in front of it swimming. This view shows the same mug that has a relief ribbon separating the top portion from the bottom portion. The ribbon has swooped to a much lower position on this side of the mug. The top portion is a flowing blend of black, blue and green glaze colors. However, from this view one can only really see the orca calf swimming through blue waters on the bottom portion. This is the back of the mug that has a relief ribbon that separates the top portion from the bottom portion at about three fourths of the way down. The top portion is a flowing blend of black, blue and green glaze colors. The bottom portion shows the blue of the ocean waters.
April 29, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Enjoying the process of painting in the background for this mug while listening to a little Jack Johnson.

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April 29, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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I was able to pull a few nice pieces from my last kiln firing! It has been a slow spring, so I’m excited to have some new pieces to share.
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This is a flyer announcing items being added to my pottery website. In the lower left is a photo of a black/blue tumbler with silhouettes of dolphins. Above that is a light blue tumbler with colorful (blue/purple/teal) dots on the side. Along the top are three photos of bowls that are faded from dark blue to light blue on the inside with silhouettes. The first one has a shark, the next has 2 manta rays and the last one has three dolphins. Along the right side is a photo of a black mug with a sunset painted on the bottom and a silhouette of an eagle catching a fish. My logo is in the bottom right corner.
April 28, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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A downside of going out to the studio this morning… leaving my tracks in this pristine snow from the weekend.
A small tan building with a full layer of untouched snow all around it. The background is filled with bare winter trees. A small tan building with a full layer of snow all around it and a set of fresh footprints leading to and from the doors. The background is filled with bare winter trees.
February 17, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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20 pots/ceramics pieces for 20 days in no particular order

Day 20

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A light colored bowl with a gray rim. Fall leaves are painted onto the side in yellows, oranges and browns.
February 16, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Day 19

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A tumbler with small divets of various sizes carved randomly along a diagonal line from the lower left to the upper right. Glazes slowly blend from a light blue to a lavender to a gray from top to bottom.
February 15, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Day 18
Happy Valentine’s Day!

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Two tumblers on a table with a bottle of wine behind them and seven red or silver Hershey’s kisses in front of them. The tumblers have three relief ribbons that look like soft waves around them. Each section between the ribbons is glazed differently going from a super light pink in the top section to a maroon color on the bottom.
February 14, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Day 17
My son is a Star Wars fan, so he asked me to do a sculpture of him frozen in carbonite. (Corrected from previous post…oops)

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An unfired clay relief sculpture of a boy’s face and hands protruding from a rough surface. A close up of a sculpted boy’s face protruding halfway from a somewhat textured flat surface. A silvery painted clay relief sculpture of a boy’s face and hands protruding from a rough surface. The sculpture is framed in with flat smooth silvery painted wood pieces. There is a somewhat visible gadget panel along the right side of frame. Mounted on the wall are two lightsabers on either side of the sculpture.
February 13, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Day 16

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Two tumblers with the same design of two relief ribbons separating yellow glaze on top, yellow-orange in the middle and orange glaze along the bottom. The top ribbon simply creates a wave from about 2/3 of the way to the top and down to 2/3 of the way to the bottom and back. The second ribbon creates a gentle wave with a bit of a soft zigzag in the larger spaces created by the top ribbon.
February 12, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Day 15

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A mug being held up to show the left side. (Left of the handle) A mountain range is underglazed with a sun setting behind it. The colors of the sunset reflect on a body of water in front of the mountains. The silhouette of an elk is shown on the very bottom as a contrast to the bright colors reflecting off the water. There is a relief ribbon that separates this scene from the simple dark blues/grays glaze of the rest of the mug.
February 11, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Day 14

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A fruit/veggie strainer with relief ribbons to separate colors and create a bit of a handle. The very top section is a light blue color. The section under that is a very pale blue, followed by a light pink section and then a small dark purple section.
February 10, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Day 13

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An orange mug with a single relief ribbon that separates the mug into two sections. The ribbon is closer to the rim on the front side of the mug and closer to the base on the back side. Beneath the ribbon is a safari sunset of yellows, oranges and reds with the silhouette of a mama and baby giraffe near an acacia tree.
February 9, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Day 12

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A light pinkish mug with a somewhat abstract sunflower imprint on the side. The mug is filled with coffee and held in front of a brick wall.
February 8, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Day 11

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Tumbler with 2 relief ribbons that flow horizontally from about half way from the top to close to the bottom. The very top of the tumbler is glazed a blue/gray/brown type color. The section between the two ribbons is glazed a tan color. The area under the bottom ribbon shows the impressions of fall leaves that have been filled with watercolor underglazes. Tumbler with 2 relief ribbons that flow horizontally from about half way from the top to close to the bottom. The very top of the tumbler is glazed a blue/gray/brown type color. The section between the two ribbons is glazed a tan color. The area under the bottom ribbon shows the impressions of fall leaves that have been filled with watercolor underglazes.
February 7, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Day 10

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Tumbler with relief swirls. A single relief wave separates the top and bottom. In the area below the wave there are more relief lines making a swirl similar to a wave crashing. The top area is a light blue-purple color. The bottom area is a blue/gray/green glaze.
February 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Day 9

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A bowl with simple line buildings along the bottom and textured waves of purples, blues and white for the sky. This photo has a orange and brown building next to a dark blue building that has only one light on. A bowl with simple line buildings along the bottom and textured waves of purples, blues and white for the sky. This photo has the edge of a dark blue building with a pink building next to it. The pink building has a silhouette of a cat sitting in one of the two windows. A bowl with simple line buildings along the bottom and textured waves of purples, blues and white for the sky. This photo has a blue and brown building next to a tower with a clock. On the other side of the tower is a green building. A bowl with simple line buildings along the bottom and textured waves of purples, blues and white for the sky. This photo has a tower with a clock next to a green building and a blue build on the other side.
February 5, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Day 8

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The top photo is the inside of a bowl. Gray glaze covers the inside all except a palm sized circle, which is white with a simple smiley face licking its lips. The bottom photo is the outside of the same bowl. It is glazed black on the bottom with purple glaze flowing down 2/3 of the way from the top.
February 4, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Day 7
Opposite sides of the same bowl.

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February 3, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Day 6
Opposite sides of the same bowl.

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A red bowl with a black relief ribbon that flows from near top to near bottom of the bowl. In the space beneath the black ribbon is a yellow, orange and red sunset with the silhouette of a t-rex. A red bowl with a black relief ribbon that flows from near top to near bottom of the bowl and back. In the space beneath the black ribbon is an orange, red, pink and purple sunset with the silhouette of a triceratops.
February 2, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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I used tools like these:
Varied sizes of tools that make holes in clay.
February 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Day 5

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Strainer with three slightly wavy bands of color: yellow-green on top, blue-green, and then blue on the bottom portion. Straining holes are randomly scattered within the middle blue-green band.
February 1, 2025 at 3:18 PM