Category: Art

Green Chicken-Cooker

This is a dish made for a specific recipe, in which you fill the center part with beer, and rest a chicken on top of it.  I like to shove herb-butter under the skin and put seasoned salt on the outside.  It’s quite delicious.  You can also do it with a beer can, but the …

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Flowerpot One

This flowerpot is thrown in Soldate 60.  I wanted to decorate the outside with sprigging of grape leaves, but the sprigg mold didn’t cure in time.  The glaze is “Kurt’s Klear” over “Plume”.  The dimensions are 7 inches in diameter and 4 1/4 inches tall.

Leaf Designs

I’ve been thinking about ways to use 2-D art in my collage that involves neither stealing others’ art nor drawing.  Because, let’s face it.  I’ve been doing strictly 3-D art for so long that my drawing skills ain’t what they used to be. I have a scanner and a garden. I also have Microsoft Photo …

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Porcelain Teabowls-unfinished

These tea bowls are thrown from coleman’s porcelain. I wanted to make a series of teabowls and then chinapaint surreal images on them.  Unfortunately, I forgot that you shouldn’t throw composite pieces in the summer, as they dry too quickly.  Even painting wax on the joints and wrapping it tightly wasn’t enough to keep the …

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Flat Blue Bowl

This bowl is also thrown in Soldate 60, a groggy durable clay.  It’s fired to cone 10 with “Oasis Blue” overglaze.  In this photo, it’s been tipped up to display the inside better. It is ten inches in diameter and three inches in height.