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.

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.

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.

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.)

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