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?