dead flowers

Being past their prime does not mean there is no interest or beauty.  This is a white camellia that has suffered in the freeze of last week.

Latest sale

This set was delivered last night to a great family who have bought some of my best work. They commissioned me to make 6 cups for Scotch spirits, ea about 3-4 oz. I threw in the tray.
Lots of TLC here. All hand built slab construction with heavy grog home clay mixtures and the outside slab a special textured root and home clay terra sig, burnished and bisk fired then layers of iron and copper oxides outside and rubbed mostly off. White glaze inside and on the lip. I just can not get that outside finish with glazes.

A real honor

I was asked by my pastor if I would consider making a Baptismal bowl/shell for my Church. I took the task as an artistic and symbolic effort to tell a story. The results I think turned out nicely.

Some new ceramics pieces

Still continuing with some texture plates and small cups. Plates are combination of white and black slip and green mason stains and added native clays.

Cups are brushed and fingered with white slip and clear glaze on the inside and lip. Outside is stained with oxides over the slip.

A few photo posts today

This week has been an interesting early morning walk time, cell phone picture.

And a few of my abstracts, first of a red maple along the walk to the office and the second a fuzzy weed outside the pottery studio.

Weekend and this weeks clayventures

This weekend was a slow day of sales but had a good time with potter friends. I had a couple of tables.

And this week finished 3 new wall disks and hung them in my office to see how it would look.

And a photo of my new "clay family" of creatures for sculptural fun : )

Great Firing today

Got some new stuff today. Big new textures and direction.
Working on disk fired with black glaze and white porcelian and local field clays. Will be a part of four wall pieces

And a new textures for a vase, texture from the root of a wisteria.

And a clay family of texture guys.

and a Vase with light brushed black and white slip over brown body clay.