Hello! My name is Joanne O’Leary of Dollface Pottery & Jewellery. I am based in St. Johms, Newfoundland and Labrador on the most easterly province of Canada. I handbuild all pieces with a few basic tools and without the use of a pottery wheel. Most of my mugs are made from my own hand drawn texture rollers or commercial texture rollers and all designs are based on themes found in nature in our province such as our flora and fauna.
Wow! Love your solar storm northern lights technique! And the breaching whale mugs are pretty nice as well. Actually, it was really all very good! 😊 Thanks so much for sharing! 💜
I am so jelly I wish I could be king and seeing these views as well. You have the perfect life, reminds me a lot of Cape Cod up near Eastham. Love the colors and do the platters sell well, I know you said there for friends and fam but still curious.
they're beautiful! When you do a celadon like storm or rainforest and then seaweed at the top, do you coat the whole cup with the celadon glaze and then seaweed over it? Do you brush or dip the glaze? Thanks.
Wow wow wow. Stunning glazing techniques. You live in a gorgeous part of the world. Which provides you with so much inspiration. I am impressed with hand built mugs. I'll have to scroll through your content to see if you have any how to make videos. Look forward to more from you. Happy glazing and keep those hand's dirty. PS the refire pls tell me the reason why and did you add more glaze second time around.
Please don’t be offended but if you just wipe your lids and bottles so there is no glaze to solidify you will find it easy to take the tops off your glazes. Loved the video, thank you.
Wow all so pretty and I always love your whale cups could look at those all day! The mussel shell is great your plan for the next one sounds good too. I love the outside combo on that one, looks so realistic! And the tails!🐋💙
I’m not sure why I’m just finding your videos! Love you and your work!! I have a question about the starry night combo. Do you coat the entire mug and then layer the blue hydrangea on top of it or do you do each separately? How many coats of each? Thank you
Lovely pieces Joanne! The mussel bowl is stunning. Can’t wait to see it with mother of pearl 😊. I think it would be interesting to see it without the green next time. Btw your hair looks awesome 😊 thanks for sharing
Love them. That muscle shell is stunning! Great results. Do you have a video on making the whale and baby mugs? I have lots of time to watch videos, lol. Loving yours as I grew up spending sooo much time on the coast of Alaska. I wish I could make more marine style pottery, but being landlocked in Utah, it doesn't go over as well. ❤
Yes for sure, I do have videos on my channel regarding carving using Mishima technique and Meditation Monday videos that you may benefit from while healing
Great that you are visiting this summer. In the summer, my work can be found at the Craft Council Shop and Pantry, 155 Water Street, St JOHNS, or at the Baccaliu Gallery in Hearts Content, or at The Colony of the Avalon in Ferryland. Both Hearts Content and Ferryland are about an hour’s drive from St JOHNS in case you venture further afield.
Thanks for sharing 👍. Helpful hint for opening stuck glaze lids...dip the bottle upside down in water and let it sit for a bit. Also reduces dust as you open.
I love this kiln opening - such wonderful glaze combos on lovely hand built work. I love wasabi and sky mixed. I just did a 50/50 mix and fell in love. will try your ratio next time. Thank you Joanne
Satin patina doesn't run on its own but in combination it definitely does! Especially at cone 7! Love your whale mugs, storm celadon is one of my favorites too, and your florida celadon is so florida keys, pretty!!!
Thank you so much, the only glaze I’m missing is lustrous jade. Any suggestions on how to replace it or should I pick it up next time I go pottery shopping?
I would experiment on a test tile with something else you have, maybe textured turquoise, or emerald falls, or vert lustre, or iron lustre, just to see what effects you get from one of those first.
Thanks for sharing, Joanna! I really like the way YOUR Northern lights turns out. Maybe it's partly due to that lustrous Jade, which I will have to buy! Way over here in Vancouver, we have Orcas! Happy Creating and thanks again!
Joanne, loved the intro. So nice to see pics of your home province. Those planters are beautiful! And your mugs as always, so inspiring. Thanks for sharing!
