Raku Woman

This is a piece I did in high school.  It’s raku fired, which accounts for the carbon trappings.  The piece is merely a cylinder of clay, altered to make it interesting, with a loop like a handle on top.  I really love this piece, and tried to duplicate it in 2003 without much success.  I …

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White Slip Weed Cup 2

This is the largest of all six of this series, and can hold maybe sixteen ounces.  It has a couple dots of blue glaze that got on there by mistake, but it’s still one of my favorite drinking vessels now.

White Slip Weed Cup 1

For the second set of weed cups, I first tried to scratch in the design and then fill it with white slip, using a metal rib tool to scrape it off. That didn’t work at all. My fellow ceramicists suggested that perhaps I had done it with the clay too wet (It was leather hard …

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Smiley Ball 13

Another smiley-ball filler piece until I get a chance to finish my new books and photograph them.

Weed Cup 2

This has a slightly narrower shape, and is smaller than the other weed cup.