Mar 30
This is a picture of my front yard. We used to have a lawn, but I killed it because I hate Bermuda grass with a furious passionate loathing. In the summer, I let it go dead, but in the winter, I have a vegetable garden and I overseed with flowers. Last year I threw down …
Mar 27
I made this core-formed vessel especially shallow so that I could have something completely vitreous to use as an inkwell. I like how the turquoise and ivory colored glass work with each other. The inside still has rust from the steel wool used as the form, and I haven’t been able to clean it all …
Mar 24
This is a technique that I came up with to provide a raised surface design without the fuss of jacquard bottles and slip. First I used a linoblock and cut a fish into it, trying to make it a simple line drawing as much as possible. Then I rolled out a slap about a quarter …
Mar 21
This was another experiment with the Duncan “French Impressions” glaze that I just bought. I’m not very proud of it, as one of the birds looks deformed. Thought I’d post it anyway, as a…as a warning or something. Maybe it will look fine from a distance.
Mar 17
This is another one of my tarot tiles. I have almost a dozen that aren’t yet glazed, but I’d made them just before my old kiln went on strike so the bisqueware is sitting in my cabinets. They take quite a while to glaze, as you have to have three or in some cases four …
