When I was in Japan, I used to do cobalt underglaze on porcelain more than anything else. It was a style born out of the fact that I can’t read glaze colors in Japanese. There are a lot of traditional designs and motifs, usually used on fabric, which lend themselves well to the concave surface …
Category: Pottery
Dec 13
Cobalt-Fish Scale Porcelain Bowl
This is my favorite of the traditional Japanese designs I use on pottery. Because of the way that the design has to change in order to fit inside the bowl, it never turns out the same way twice. I love hex-based designs as well, but when you do hexagonal designs on a curved surface, it …
Dec 07
Un-Red bowl
Dec 02
Varnish Emu Cup
Gabrielle Koza and Daphne Azzi, two of my fellow students at the Tempe Arts Center, created new glazes this session. When they tested them, we all voted on the favorites, and these glazes were two of the winners. The yellowish one was named “Desert Varnish” and the other was named “Emu”. Gabrielle wanted to know …
Nov 29