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Tingaringy Pottery @tingaringy-pottery.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

New glaze ingredient. I cleared the dead leaves away from the wollemi tree in our garden. I got about 300ml of ash from all those leaves.

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Tingaringy Pottery @tingaringy-pottery.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hematite glaze with 7% bone ash added. Got some tiny red crystals. I'll try putting this glaze through the community kiln to get a much slower cooling, but the titanium content might mean it won't ever work as an iron saturate glaze. #pottery

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Tingaringy Pottery @tingaringy-pottery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Yellow celadon mini bowl, with a glaze made from local rock (with frit 3134). #pottery

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Tingaringy Pottery @tingaringy-pottery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Iron saturate glaze made with hematite, on mini bottles made of wild clay from two different locations. The glaze looks black under low light, and is a mottled red-brown with blue spots in sunlight. #pottery

Two clay bottles with very dark red glaze

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Tingaringy Pottery @tingaringy-pottery.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Tiny bits of tumbled jasper and quartz from Bredbo, NSW.

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Tingaringy Pottery @tingaringy-pottery.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Male honeybee I found under the wild hive in our garden. Poor thing couldn't fly anymore. He looks very cuddly.

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Tingaringy Pottery @tingaringy-pottery.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Mookaite for #mineralmonday. A form of radiolarite from Western Australia. I got these pieces off the lapidary club's giveaway table.

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Tingaringy Pottery @tingaringy-pottery.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Three crinoid inspired mini pots with yellow celadon glaze made from granite and limestone (and frit 3134 to get it to melt at cone 6) I've made versions of these for the gas kiln that are waiting to be fired. #pottery

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Tingaringy Pottery @tingaringy-pottery.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Close up of the high-titanium hematite glaze on a mini bowl. #pottery

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Tingaringy Pottery @tingaringy-pottery.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This was supposed to be a red iron saturate glaze, but the hematite I used seems to contain a lot of titanium. #pottery

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Tingaringy Pottery @tingaringy-pottery.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Raku firing at Canberra Potters. Not my stuff, I just happened to be there when the firing was happening.

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Tingaringy Pottery @tingaringy-pottery.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Clinozoisite slab for this week's #mineralmonday. The pink and brown colours are from manganese.

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Tingaringy Pottery @tingaringy-pottery.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

First forget-me-not in the garden this spring.

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Tingaringy Pottery @tingaringy-pottery.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

These little birds will soon be off to Sydney for the Birdweek exhibition. www.birdweekaustralia.com

Three ceramic wrens with tiny suitcases and a camera

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Tingaringy Pottery @tingaringy-pottery.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Ginninderra red granite after the clay has been washed off it. It is going to be the base ingredient for the next batch of celadon.

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Tingaringy Pottery @tingaringy-pottery.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Calcite for #mineralmonday Highly pure source of calcium carbonate, it is an extremely common ingredient in ceramic glaze recipes.

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Tingaringy Pottery @tingaringy-pottery.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Feral pig jaw. It is going to be turned into bone ash for the next set of glazes.

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Tingaringy Pottery @tingaringy-pottery.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This week's #mineralmonday is plagioclase. Melts really well, but tend to cause crazing in glaze.

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Tingaringy Pottery @tingaringy-pottery.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Red azollas at Strathnairn. Contains a lot of potassium and other flux minerals, so is definitely on the list of glaze ingredients I want to try someday.

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Tingaringy Pottery @tingaringy-pottery.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Pyrophyllite for #mineralmonday Commonly used in both glazes and clay bodies

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Tingaringy Pottery @tingaringy-pottery.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Two more test minis from the gas kiln. This celadon did not contain kaolin, just ~2% local bentonite. It went on thinner and ended up more transparent.

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Tingaringy Pottery @tingaringy-pottery.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

It's wing cracked in the bisque, so now it is going to be garden decoration. #pottery

Terracotta bird surrounded by clover and grass

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Tingaringy Pottery @tingaringy-pottery.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Slightly late #mineralmonday Pyrolusite from Bredbo, NSW. It is softer than the other sample I have, so easier to make paint and glaze from.

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Tingaringy Pottery @tingaringy-pottery.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Big weathered chunk of siderite from near Broken Hill. It is mostly iron carbonate with a few other impurities. I might try roasting a bit in the kiln to see how the colour compares to other iron sources I use. #mineralmonday.

Brown and yellow rock with a few sharp crystals

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Tingaringy Pottery @tingaringy-pottery.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Two different bits of old bottle glass fired to 850C. The greenish one only slightly melted while the blue one completely melted.

Two bits of glass after being in the kiln. Left one partially melted, right one fully melted.

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Tingaringy Pottery @tingaringy-pottery.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Close up of some nice rocks I saw today.

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Tingaringy Pottery @tingaringy-pottery.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Recycled glass dots and pebbles. Heated to 850C. The transparent glass worked perfectly, but the white glass seems to have devitrified.

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Tingaringy Pottery @tingaringy-pottery.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

For anyone in Canberra wants to try pottery, or just enjoy some mulled wine and live music.

Fired Up! Winter festival. Saturday 15 August 3pm-8pm

Ceramics markets. Demonstrations. Have-a-go activities. Open studios. Food. Live music

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Tingaringy Pottery @tingaringy-pottery.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Swan on Lake Ginninderra. The colour of the water is similar to some of my celadon glazes.

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Tingaringy Pottery @tingaringy-pottery.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Seaweed ash glazed bottle, with kaolin and extra feldspar this time. I need to sieve some of the sand out of the seaweed ash, but otherwise it worked perfectly. #pottery

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Tingaringy Pottery @tingaringy-pottery.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Sticky Canberra clay painted onto high firing stoneware clay, fired in the gas kiln.

tiny bottle with dark red, cracked glaze

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Tingaringy Pottery @tingaringy-pottery.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Obsidian melted in a tiny bowl in the gas kiln (with celadon glaze underneath) Has an interesting red tinge to it, and it bubbled a bit. I might try melting it over a pot next time. #pottery

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Tingaringy Pottery @tingaringy-pottery.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Seaweed ash glazed pot from the gas firing. The glaze looks a lot like the seaweed it was made from. #pottery

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Tingaringy Pottery @tingaringy-pottery.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Shino glaze recipe using syenite from Tilba (left) and Cooma (right). Neither quite worked, but the Cooma syenite made for a nice glaze anyway. #pottery

Two mini tumblers, one with pale speckled glaze, and the other with brown glaze

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Tingaringy Pottery @tingaringy-pottery.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Tiny vase glazed with celadon made from Ginninderra red granite and limestone from Yass. A slab of limestone fossil is underneath. The glaze sort of worked, though I'm going to try other calcium sources to see if I can get a lighter coloured glaze. #pottery

Tiny vase with mottled green glaze, on a piece of limestone full of fossils

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Tingaringy Pottery @tingaringy-pottery.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Wood ash and silty clay glazed bowl, fired in the gas kiln to cone 10. #pottery

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Tingaringy Pottery @tingaringy-pottery.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I've got to try making this when I have the time. #pottery

Terracotta vase in the shape of a cockerel

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Tingaringy Pottery @tingaringy-pottery.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I have several pieces in the gas kiln. Waiting till Tuesday night to see the results. #pottery

Fire coming out of a viewing port on a kiln door.

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