Pyewackette

I had forgotten about this bowl, it was one of my first larger bowls thus a little heavy. I love the flecks that Flambe blue makes. Sometimes it is red, sometimes blue, sometimes purple depending on where in the kiln it is.

These two are my favorites out of the set of mugs I have just created.

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.

Morning!
Started grabbing pots but Callie stopped me to take pictures.

Kevin's flashing slip and Gail Nichols soda slips and who knows what else- I have to start keeping better records. clay mix of H550 stoneware that fires white and H440 brown high temp. stoneware.

The bit of pink flashing at the top was from some oribe in the kiln. Some mix of flashing slips??? The taco debris looks like a mineral depost of tuffa or something from a black smoker!

Fits my hand, light grey clay 25% fine grog, coloured with engobes, bisque fired, then transparent glaze.

I make an assortment of custom ribs. This round padauk rib is perfect for getting that sweet round curve in your bowls with style.

new birds will have longer branches to stand on. this design was for a much smaller tray.
 
well, the bad news is that i smashed this by dropping one end of a shelf as i was putting it away. the good news is that i don't have to figure out a way of getting it back to wv.

ES10 Stoneware Cone 9 (electric)

This is my favorite piece I have made to date. I sold it about a year ago but haven't made another one yet. It's wheel thrown with applied colored engobes. It's hand carved and textured with pulled handles and commercial glazes. Fired to ^6 electric.

I do a lot of this nautical wave pattern on my pieces. this was the first cup I stacked 2 of the patterns on top of each other. I actually meant to glaze the interior with a different liner but I really liked the combination anyway after it was fired. applied engobe, with sgraffito, commercial glazes. Fired ^6 electric.

This vase is about 6 square. I threw it then carved grooves in the top and bottom. The grooved sections get a couple coats of black engobe because I like the way the glaze looks over the black. The middle is black engobe with paper branches then blue engobe then the paper is peeled off. It has commercial glazes and was fired to cone 6 in my electric kiln. I tried to get fancy with the picture.

Wheel thrown with underglaze decoration, paper resist, and sgraffito. Carved texture and pulled handle.

Wheel thrown with commercial underglaze, and glazes. Decorated using paper resist, sgraffito, and carving. Fired to cone 6 in an electric kiln.

I have carved some floral designs onto some of my parian vases. I think they would make lovely candle holders or lamp shades. New direction possible.

Fired to ^6, Bee mix 5, 4.75x7", Amoco Celadon C-53, Base glaze from Mastering ^6 with 10% Zircopax. I call it Precious White.

Dark brown clay body. Cone 6. Driftwood attached via hemp

Muhly grass top weaved with natural sinew.

I'm obsessed with organic textures, this glaze finish was inspired by actual tree bark, from a tree outside my studio.