Blooper Reel: pasty little sauce dish

A set of small bowls.

Half purple, half clear porcelain bowl

I really liked the simplicity of this vessel. I gave this (and a nice smelling candle I think) to my Nephews mom Eila.

Festive porcelain bowl

I loved this and the matching bowl in blue terra siglata. I gave this one to my brother Mike (I think) and the other to my sister Tanya (or I could have it the otherway around.) I think I sent nice smelling candles to fit as well. This one is bright and alive with color featuring crystal blue, texturizers and gold rust.

A blue terra siglatta porcelain bowl

I love this piece. This is the first complete terra siglata pieces I have ever executed. (The bowl is not blue nor is the glaze... instead a thin layer of blue clay was painted on.) texturizers and shadow green round out the cool aquatic look for this piece. I sent this and it's festive sibling to my bother and sister Mike and Tanya.

A set of mugs

Dark textured porcelain mug

This is my personal mug and I couldn't be more proud of it. For the first week I had it drank all my liquids from it (including wine and water.) This is texturized white porcelain with crystal blue and shadow green and molasses brown.

nicely handled textured porcelain mug

I love this dainty little cup! It hold maybe 8 ounces of coffee on a good day and I dressed it with crystal blue, purple and texturizers. I gave this one to my Sister-in-law Aileen.

light porcelain mug with patchy blue rim

This is a nicely shaped mug that had too much glaze on the rim. I stripped it off and clear glazed it to seal but the patchyness of the rim leads me to consider reglazing it.

Blooper Reel: Wonky short textured mug

Midsized interesting shapes recap.

I am really proud of these 3. They all have a definate shape and have interest without being gaudy.

Tri-colored fruit bowl

This is one of my best most simple pieces. This tri-colored fruit bowl is a gently curved porcelain bowl. Until my next batch gets fired, this is my largest object sucessfully thrown. I think the reddish color is burgundy under shadow green.

A ruffled edged bowl in 6 colors

I threw this wide based cylinder too thin and drew the walls out at too steep an increase, instead of letting the walls flop over, I created several undulations that strengthened the walls. This had to be trimmed by hand except for the base which I trimmed on the bat. The colors are purple, speckled ivory, shadow green, burgundy and speckled rust. There is also texturizer. Karen and I gave this to her cousin and husband Vanessa and Todd.

Small funnel shaped flower vase

This pleasant object is purple, peacock green, and something like speckled rust with texturizer. I accidentally left a small piece unglazed that actually looks kind of cool. Karen and I gave this to her wacky uncle Ron.

Tri-colored short pitcher

This pitcher is part of a set of handled objects I made in this batch. The handle is a little too big and feels weird in the hand. The spout was simplicity itself except that is kept me from trimming the object on the wheel because of the heigh distortion of the rim. So step 1 to making a pitcher is throw a perfect thin cylinder that doesn't need trimming (except on the foot. Then trim the pitcher on the bat so you don't need to rely on the irregular top edge.

Two soup bowls.

These two are just a glimpse of what's to come. This batch came out really well except for the exterior texturizer peeling off. Except for maybe 1 or 2, there is basically nothing tragic for my blooper reel!

Multi-hued soup bowl

This multi-hued soup bowl has purple, speckled ivory, hazelnut, and texturizers. I think it is porcelain.

A new batch (part2)

This is the underside of that last bowl showing the shape and exterior glaze. I think the brown is hazelnut with TX-2 applied as an overglaze. I applied TX-1 to the interior of most of the pieces in this batch and TX-2 to the exterior. Unfortunately the TX-2 peeled away in places leaving very sharp ribbons of knife-edged glass. After chipping off the larger slivers, I will need to dremel smooth the rest. I would also like to dremel down the feet of my pieces.

A new batch!

This is a soup bowl shaped piece with a crystal blue rim and a speckled ivory and shadow green interior. I love the little flecks in the speckled ivory. There is TX-1 texturizer applied as an overglaze using a syringe to create a droplet stream. I think this was thrown CKK-6 grogged porcelain.

Unicorn Chaser

Here is a recap of my very first work. This was my untrained product and I couldn't be more pleased (especially about the blue rimmed bowl.) These pieces are my best glazes and the red bowl is my best form. I have several new pieces coming up including mugs, bowls and even a pitcher. They were all good forms in their way and I have my fingers crossed for the glaze... Still they can't ever compare to these two intuitive objects.

Blooper reel: Post Mortem

Here is another look at the blooper reel. I have another batch whipped up in the kiln and I am hoping that the last minute glaze job I did doesn't have too many more of these. I have an idea for a repeatable aesthetic for modest bowls: One earth (Black, brown, grey,) One focus (red, blue, green, orange) one accent (celladon, shadow green, sand.) I of course did all my glazing before coming up with this... so I am sure the blooper reel is going to get some new blood. I will also be testing out some texturizing overglazes. I can't wait!

Blooper reel: This bowl is a painted whore.

I deeply regret the paint job I put on this one. the bowl is a good internal shape (but is supported by a teeny little foot.) The glaze is orange, tomato red, with drops of crystal blue. Maybe the drops are peacock green and the dollop on the right is crystal blue. Let's say that this bowl is just a tad *fabulous* for my sensibilities.

Blooper reel: ruffled edge bowl

This bowl was a failed shallow cylinder that got too thin and wide in the walls. Instead of scrapping it, I decided to use it for some weirdness practice. It was hard to trim and sand since it does not have a symmetrical profile for turning. I had to hand sand the delicate ruffling edges and belive me, when I had finished, this failed pot looked awesome. Then I put orange and black strokes on it and I just don't like the combo. I love the shape but unlike most of my pieces, this one looks better full. :)

An oil lamp?

This is the tri-colored bowl with the small dish with a hole in it... the green colors line up (I think it's speckled Ivory with shadow green layered over it. Karen thinks that together these pieces make a pretty interesting oil lamp

Small black and green dish with hole

This small dish is about as big around as a KrispyKreme doughnut. It was the remnants of a failed pot and I accidentally broke through the foot when I was detailing it. I was going to use it as a sauce dish... now it's just a cute object.

Tri-colored black-stroked bowl (profile)

Here is the tri-colored bowl side on. You can see the wide lip and the straight sides narrowing to a pedestal ring foot.

Tri-colored black-stroked bowl

This is a wide almost plate-like bowl made from alpine white (I think.) The colors are speckled Ivory and some kind of red... there is a purple highlight and everything is dipped in shadow green I think. There are black or brown accent strokes made with a long floppy thin brush.

A trio of bowls

A trio of my first bowls. All done (I think) with my first 25 lbs of alpine white. These guys give me an urge to make a set of rice bowls but I am throwing bigger and better things these days! :)

grey green alpine bowl

This bowl is similar in shape to my early purple bowl. it is much lighter and much less conical. I forget what it is made of. It's probably alpine white. It is half stormy grey and half peacock green. (I am only guessing at this point.)

This is a picture of my kittie bix and the light lopsided bowl. This is a picture of my wonderful life.

Lopsided orange and purple bowl.

This is a wonderfully light lopsided bowl I threw from alpine white. This was the first thing I threw thin with almost no trimming (except the foot.) The lower half is purple and the inside is orange. The orange glaze smells like amonia and rotten eggs.

Purple bowl

This is the first bowl I made after instruction. the base (not shown) is a thick pedestal with a shallow ring for a foot. The glaze is simply purple. I love the glossy uneven quality that gives this one glaze so much texture. This is made from alpine white (a heavily grogged white clay.)

Red shallow pot

This is the second of the objects I made prior to my first class. The clay is also Klamath Red which is well grogged (it is laden with a sand made out of fired clay.) The interior glaze is shadow green and the rim is crystal blue. I forget what the exterior glaze is....it's a buff matte of some sort. This pot was thick enough to resist the stress cracks of my previous item. I gave this one to my brother Sean who is also earthy and cool.

First red pot

This is the profile of my first piece. You can barely make out stress cracks in the lower portion of the vessel. In the previous post you can see an S-crack in the bottom of the vessel that happened because I didn't compress the bottom and I carved out the foot a little too deeply. The crack is along the line of my signature in the base of the vessel

My first post

This is the first post of my make blog. I have just recently taken up pottery at a community center near my home. Here is the first pot I made as adult. I made it from a dense red clay called Kalamata red. I formed this with no instruction on the wheel prior to my first class. The glaze is predominantly shadow green and i forget what the accents are... turquoise maybe?