Pottery doings...

[wayfaringwordhack]

Here is a sampling of some of the things I have been making.

Sadly, a lot of the plates shown in this first photo didn't survive (don't know about the yellow one, yet) because they broke during transportation to the pottery studio, which is why I am not happy about our teacher moving downtown. Greenware (unfired pottery) is soooooo fragile.

Also, I did not make the teapot in the center, back row. I bought it bisque-fired from a Lebanese potter who sells the clay he collects on his land; I wanted to test some high-fire glazes on it since we bought 50kg of clay from him. Unfortunately, the piece got too hot and the glaze went practically black instead of the greens and blues, etc. that I had applied.  The water pitcher on the right got broken at Sara's studio; someone touched it and snapped the handle in several pieces.😒

These two teapots ARE mine, and the water pitcher, too, which has that oddly beautiful surface because of burnishing.  The finish won't survive the first firing, though, which is too bad.  It is so sensuous to the touch.

Here is one of the only finished pieces that I felt kind of OK about. It is not bad, but it did not turn out at all like I expected:

 

Exterior

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Interior

And to finish, a little screenshot from a book I just started reading by Gabriel Kline that captures just the way I felt upon getting my pieces back:

But! It is a process, as the wise have reminded me, and I can definitely learn how to do things better and make the glazing as enchanting as the throwing and trimming.

Comments

[wayfaringwordhack]

Thank you, dear. I love making them.