rayaldridge
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From the album: newer work
This is a dry pipe using a steampunk motif with wheels instead of legs. The glaze is white with pink and lavender pooling glaze overdipped. -
From the album: newer work
This little bowl developed a spectacular glaze, with a crystalline formation floating in the center that has a very strangely evocative pattern. -
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This is a dry pipe in the form of a fat catfish. -
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This piece was dipped in a dark blue slip and combed lightly. It's designed to serve maple syrup with less drippage than a conventional little pitcher. -
From the album: newer work
This little bowl was carved with a radial pattern of squiggly lines and dipped in a white glaze. The high-iron glaze I sprayed over that defined the pattern in a subtle way that I like. -
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I like this piece for its quiet looks. -
From the album: newer work
I like the pale clear rose color under the ridge. One of the two most beautiful mugs I've made this year. -
From the album: newer work
This bowl did some weird stuff, which I like. The white glaze flashed pink under the rim and turned purple over a blue-green glaze, sunning down to form a pool in the center. -
From the album: newer work
Simple teapot, with a silky white glaze over a blue slip. -
From the album: newer work
The glaze is the standard silky white crystalline glaze I've been using a lot lately. The center of the bowl was sprayed with a pale green crystalline glaze to define the texture of the fluted pattern carved lightly into the porcelain. For unknown reasons, this sprayed on glaze fumed the white rim of the bowl to an almost fluorescent pink, and crystallized pink flowed down and collected in the center of the bowl -
From the album: newer work
A sake set of white-glazed porcelain. A light spray of iron glaze helps to define the flutes carved into the forms. -
From the album: newer work
This is a one-piece hanging planter, a form I made in the hundreds, back in the day. The water catcher is thrown onto the bottom of the planter as a part of the trimming process. It's planted with aloe, and is a gift to my son the chef, who sometimes collects burns in the course of working. -
Thanks, Babs. Yes, I've always liked to work with slips and glazes, and there was even a time long ago when I used stoneware clay dug directly from the ground. The narrative pieces showing precise outlines of images (the cats in these pieces) were done using resists cut from thin plastic and smoothed onto the leatherhard piece. Then the piece was either dipped in slip for the negative images, or covered with cold resist, peeled off, and then slipped, for the positive ones. Lately I seem to be reverting to more abstract surface treatments. I've only recently come to appreciate the idea of cups without handles. Our oldest son is a tea aficionado, is about to graduate from the Culinary Institute of America, and that's the reason I started making yunomis. I'm really liking the possibilities of the form. -
From the album: newer work
Another piece with sprayed-on slip and satin white. -
Yunomi with combed blue and green slips
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From the album: newer work
This yunomi was dipped in both green and blue slips and then quickly combed to expose both. It may be excessively bright, but I like it because it's lively. Same white satin glaze. -
From the album: newer work
My second favorite piece from the last firing, This was sprayed with a green vitreous slip, and glazed with white satin matte, followed by a spray of blue ash glaze. -
From the album: newer work
This is probably my favorite piece from the last firing. The yunomi was sprayed with a vitreous green slip and then a more refractory lavender slip. It was glazed in my current favorite glaze, a titanium satin matte. Somehow this treatment resulted in a soft gray with tiny flecks of many colors, green, blue, lavender... and with a mysterious pink flush on one side. -
Thanks, Babs Yes, I've seen his blog. Very good potter and very good writer. I wish we'd had the web when I was a young potter. I'm naturally an extreme hermit, and it would have done me a lot of good to see how much beautiful work is being done. -
From the album: newer work
These have no actual granite in them, but the glaze has a granite-like quality, with green specks on a blue background, a smooth matte surface, and a micaceous sparkle in the sun. -
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From the album: newer work
These three porcelain mise en place bowls are glazed with a clear deep blue and oversprayed with an active rutile glaze. I like these because they remind me a little of salt-glazed work. -
From the album: newer work
These porcelain yunomis are fluted and glazed with a pale green ash glaze on the exterior, and a clear glaze on the interior, overlaid with ash glaze a distance down from the rim. -
From the album: newer work
Five mise en place bowls, celadonish glaze, in porcelain, fired to Cone 8. Approximately 5 inches in diameter and 2 inches tall. -
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From the album: narrative work
