Archive for the ‘General Pottery’ Category

A Tour of My Studio!

Thursday, July 12th, 2007

Finally got my own clay studio set up at home. My former living room has turned into the sculpture and handbuilding area (figure 1). There used to be a couch here, but now it’s just two work tables and a few shelving units. Sometimes, late at night, these half finished clay heads would feel as if they were alive…

(Update 2010-03-30: I don’t live here anymore, though I still keep a studio in the back as well as the kiln room pictured below. Apologies to all those of you who had seen this site before coming to my new home, expecting to find a working studio there. Nah… I’ve become a normal person — no more clay and dirt and mess where I live. :-))

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figure 1: sculpture studio is my former living room

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More Funny Ware

Thursday, October 5th, 2006

These are proud happy guys driving their hard earned Mercedes. Funerary ware, reduction fired to cone 6 in a gas kiln. One is about 3 inches tall, the other 3 and 1/2. Perfect memento to remind yourself of your achievements in this world as you journey into the next one…

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La Condition Humane

Thursday, October 5th, 2006

Okay, I’m too busy to post something more useful or meaningful for the moment, so here are just a handful of funny figurines grouped together under a fancy title (in French, no less) for your amusement. :-) They were all made by pinching, stand between 2 to 4 inches tall; some were saggar fired, others are just plain bisque ware.

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More Mechanical Rats

Saturday, August 19th, 2006
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Or whatever they are…

Greenware. Still drying on my shelves…

Mutant Teapots Masquerading as Mechanical Rats

Saturday, August 19th, 2006

Yeah, I know, the title doesn’t make much sense; neither does the photo — or these two whatever-you-call-’em (animals? things?) in the photo. But who says everything has to make sense?

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Or maybe they are rats pretending to be teapots?

Greenware, work-in-progress. Photo taken a week ago, the pieces now have been bisqued, and will probably go into the soda kiln next week. Who knows, they may turn out nice. Maybe even nice enough to be submitted to a teapot show… But will other teapots object? And why would they?

Mystery Pots

Thursday, June 8th, 2006

Sometimes it’s good to look at pieces without thinking about the technical details. So here are a couple pics for your amusement. I’ll write more about them later.

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Susan’s Raku Firing Video

Thursday, May 18th, 2006

Here is another video of pottery making — in this case a very smoothly executed Raku firing with excellent team work by Susan (with the tongs) and Sandy (with the lids.) Enjoy!