Catherine Cheek

This cup is out of porcelain, and because it dried before I could impress designs around the rim, I decided to do a solid color instead of a clear one.  Unfortunately, this red turns clear unless it’s reduced (denied oxygen), so it’s only red on the inside.

This is one of a series of porcelain bowls I made, after I noticed that the children always ran out of cereal bowls.  I tried to make them all the same, and some of them were wet enough during trimming that I was able to embellish them with the stamps I made.

Of the series of porcelain bowls I made, this one is so far my favorite.  The caramel glaze runs, so I used it over shino, which doesn’t.  I love the depth of color, as well as the sheen. It’s impressed with stamps I made: hexagons on the bottom, triangles on the top.

  I had a cookie jar from CostCo, that came with biscotti in it, but while I was gone last summer the kids broke it. I decided to make a replacement for it. I had the shape of what I wanted in my head, based off of a talavera jar I bought in Mexico.  I …

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I disliked the glaze on this bowl, but other found it the best of the series. This bowl cracked during bisque firing–porcelain can be extremely temperamental–but I was able to salvage it with paperclay.  The stamps on the side are an oak leaf and a dragonfly.