GiselleNo5

Some little fun guinea pig beads and one hedgehog.

Some little fun guinea pig beads and one hedgehog.

8.5x11
Ink and watercolor.
Approx. 30 hours.

Three wheel thrown pieces made with Speckled Buff clay. The interiors are then painted with white stoneware slip and the outside is carved with grass and flowers. Then underglaze is applied to the grass and white engobe to the flowers so the colors will show true.

Having a mad and intense slip trailing session. I'm making these mugs specially as gifts for my husband's coworkers.

Another view of my wildflower batter bowl, with several of my tiny wildflower teaspoon rests. I have a whole bouquet of them to put in my Etsy shop!

This is a special pie plate made with two tones of casting slip. I then decorated it with leaves and swirling vines in slip and sgraffito carving on the inside.

This was a mug body that got way too thin and started to ripple, so I went with it. I really like the result and plan to make something like this again only on purpose this time.

Translucent porcelain:wheel thrown,altered and carved. Interior glazed. Electric fired to cone 10. Southern Ice.

Translucent porcelain:wheel thrown,altered and carved. Interior glazed. Electric fired to cone 10. Southern Ice.

These cube stamps are great space savers. Six in one.

Handbuilt bell peppers (and one jalapeno for extra flavor)

I don't even want to talk about how long this took to make ... more a work of art than a production piece. But I enjoyed making it so much and this is the first piece I've ever made that came out even better than I imagined. I love everything about it (this never happens to me).
 
I used white slip on the inside of the bowl and white engobe on the flowers so the colors would show true. It worked very well, but some of the little speckles showed through anyway, which I found completely charming.

Thrown and altered White earthenware. Underglazes & transparent glaze. Exterior unglazed. 5" tall.

Another view of my wildflower batter bowl, with several of my tiny wildflower teaspoon rests. I have a whole bouquet of them to put in my Etsy shop!

I don't even want to talk about how long this took to make ... more a work of art than a production piece. But I enjoyed making it so much and this is the first piece I've ever made that came out even better than I imagined. I love everything about it (this never happens to me).
 
I used white slip on the inside of the bowl and white engobe on the flowers so the colors would show true. It worked very well, but some of the little speckles showed through anyway, which I found completely charming.

Amaterasu Omikamisama.
Redart with white slip and underglaze, ^03.

slab pots made spring, 2015 in fl. after drying, i rub off that high spot showing around the biggest leaf in the nearest pot so it does not form a sharp edge after glazing. it could cut your finger if you leave it. middle pot is done with ferns that insist on growing through the fence. handles made from strips with fork drawn grooves. dragonfly in foreground shows the "holes" made for stringing the metal jewelry piece i modified. they have since been removed.

Handbuilt bell peppers (and one jalapeno for extra flavor)

Table centerpiece

Some little fun guinea pig beads and one hedgehog.