Tag: Pottery

Blue Pitcher

I got my pieces from the last firing this week.  I had made a series of four bowls and two tumblers with the same glaze combination, so when it came time to glaze my pitchers, I decided to use the same combination on one of them, this one, so I could have a set.  It …

Continue reading

Smiley Ball 16

Haven’t seen one of these for a while!

Ill-Fated Mixing Bowl

I wanted to make a set of three mixing bowls for my brother and his wife, as a belated wedding gift.  I decided to use a technique involving a large wooden paddle that fellow student Michael Voda made.  If it works, you can smoothly throw a large bowl with graceful sides. Unfortunately, you have to …

Continue reading

Blue-Green Flower Grid bowl

Florentine-Cobalt Porcelain Cup

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 …

Continue reading