Feb 01
These are the beads I did after lunch, figuring that now I could try a different technique using different colors. I didn’t make as many after lunch. For this I mostly used dots and masking. My dots are not placed very well, because I don’t have the muscle control sufficient to hold my hands in …
Jan 28
I took a beadmaking class in December, and got my beads back recently. We were working on stringer techniques, so I tried to use the same simple techniques with the same colors figuring that it was A. good practice and B. might make enough beads for a piece of jewelry. I rarely string my beads, …
Jan 24
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 …
Jan 16
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.
Jan 12
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 …
