Callie Beller Diesel

Woke up at 3AM, have had this cup in my head since then. Finally sketched it just to get it out of my thoughts.

Top part is unglazed with my black crackle slip, sprayed with wood ash mixture lightly to sheen versus too rough of dry feeling to the lips, but still will be tactile so that you know what you are drinking from.
Inside glaze is a high iron glaze like an oilspot, but slightly oversaturated and crystallized as it cools, sheen but satin not to take or distract the eyes from the eruption of the cylinder.
Bottom half of the cup is a cracking pinholing glaze, sort of like my surface experiments but safe in the hands, tactile but not sharp coning into the surface of the black cylinder.
raw  clay foot allowing the pinholes and cracks in the white glaze to match so that it isn't flawless design but purpose.

Raku results!

More results from the first raku firing n

In process.

More results from the first raku firing n

More results from the first raku firing n

More results from the first raku firing n

More results from the first raku firing n

More results from the first raku firing n

Apparantly if you change the scale of everything drastically, I can't throw worth beans.

The final result of my first animal head sculpture. I'm quite pleased with how this turned out--as you can imagine, I was sweating when this piece was in the kiln!! My fella, its intended and current owner, was extremely happy when he got it for Christmas. <3
 
Sculpted from Clay Art Center (of Tacoma)'s Xtra White lowfire earthenware, painted with Amaco, Mayco, Duncan, and Clay Art Center underglaze, fired to ^03.