all my bisque fired stuff

so to start my ceramics 4, i tried something new. I started to square off my pots and add lids to them. This keeps the functional goal in mind and also adds a little spice to it. I learned that i can't get things as square as i would like but thats just life. Also, i made them into a set and EVERYTHING looks better in a set, fact. I plan on keeping these glazed pretty neutral, most likely will gas fire them at the edina art center.

This next piece of mine was just a simple vase that I wanted to get very light. I have a new technique of doing this which takes a lot of trimming skills. I threw it on a bat, but left it really thick, this way i can get any shape i want with out it collapsing. Once it is a little drier i just trim the crap out of it, i think i got it to about 1 and a half pounds, thats pretty dank'ums. I wanna do this glaze I saw at the edina art center called Opal Blue, similar to WOO BLUE< maybe i'll do a collaborations of the WOO and the Opal and it will just be verry berry blue. It has a mildly attractive curve to it, yes it does, dont deny it, it does.











SOOOOOOOOOO, my last first project was just a simply set of mugs. They are functional like i like things to be, but also they are in a set! and sets are just fantastic! I think i'm gonna stick to a neutral green glaze to it, or maybe red. or maybe once again i'll hit up a collaboration of the green and red and bring christmas back, the same way justin timberlake brough sexy back...YUP>

3 artists that inspire me

The first artist that intrigues me is the Mad Potter of Biloxi. He wasn't very well known, but what he was known for was making very strange pots. They would be like ribbons, and I want to "spice up" my pots like that.


















The next thing that want to incorporate into my art is in the glazing. Once spring comes around, leaves will fall and I want to put leaves on to my pots. That way that there would be a picture of leaves in the glazes. Just like this picture












The last thing that I am incorporating into my art is making it more functional. The first thing I am going to do is make mugs that are insulated. I throw two separate mugs, leave a gap between the two, and add a lid.

This is one of my pitcher assignments, it has an eye in it. For a glaze i'm gonna do Demin and Iron red stripes and maybe do some crackle glaze for a tear from the eye.

My next project after the mugs was to make 10 different bowls. I got a little carried away with the normal shaped round bowls and decided to purposely misform them. I plan to glaze the bowls by they shape, so if they match in shape, they will match in glaze.








These are all the bowls I made, in the end I have some 22 bowls.

10 mugs

For the first project of this year i decided to make ten mugs that were not matching. The first few mugs matched through the throwing lines that I left in them, I than got bored of the lines and decided to deform my mugs by indenting four of them .



I have not yet came up with a glaze for the mugs but I think I'm going to make four of them match, and the rest just experiment with glazing after that.