Sep 21
For ten years, I wore a carved oak leaf made out of antler as a pendant around my neck. I wore through at least one cord, and eventually the pendant itself wore through. I was heartbroken. I loved that pendant, but my attempts to fix it proved insufficient. I decided to make a new pendant …
Jul 24
This was one of the cups I threw with my share of the batch of porcelain that some of our classmates mixed up. I had some of Kurt Weiser’s cobalt underglaze that Bridget Harper (my ceramics teacher and friend) cadged for me. I’ve done underglaze or stain on porcelain many, many times. This is a …
Jul 21
This was one of a series I made from my share of the batch of porcelain we mixed up. I tend to throw 1/4 of an inch walls on my pottery, and I’ve gotten out of the habit of trimming down to 1/8 or 1/16 of an inch walls, which is really what this porcelain …
Jul 18
I made this using the porcelain that Bridget Harper formulated for us. One thing that I discovered about this clay is that it does not like to be thick. I made a set of twelve small trays like this (only smaller) using the same technique (slab rolled, then formed inside a styrofoam meat tray). All …
May 30
. One might wonder why I used a non-transparent glaze here. I was hoping that if I did it thin enough and feathered it light by rubbing it with my finger, I’d get a bright color and not lose the design. Almost worked. Our only translucent glazes at the Tempe Arts Center are clear and …
