Hulk

https://sculptober.com/ provides prompts for each day of the month in October, and my partner thought it would be a wonderful way of getting me back into sculpting in general. I have decided to only use ceramic clay versus doing pieces in ceramic or polymer clay to give myself more of a challenge. 

Copper Red, Kai Porcelain, Cone 10R

My crystalline pottery using my custom schedule and many of my own glazes (influenced by @glazenerd)
 
 

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.

These images are pots that I have made since retiring from teaching in 2009

The Hidden Mask Series (HMS) is about enduring and surviving recurring physical and emotional trauma. Rooted in multiple unrelated real-life experiences over time, each mask is a physical yet metaphorical "selfie". Collectively, the masks symbolize resilience, illustrating the journey from functional impairment to healing and the restoration of a healthy self-identity. The exception is HMS No. 3, titled "Secrets," which is a memorial piece following a friend’s suicide.

Local clay from my area. Porous at cone 04, vitreous at 03, slumping and bloating at 02. Glazed on the inside, the exterior is bare clay with terra sigillata (made from the same clay). The darker pieces are reduction cooled. Blacks are from reduced iron, not carbon or smoke. 

BISCUIT AND HIGH GLAZED FIRED FIGURATIVE AND ANIMALIER SCULPTURES.

most of these pots were re-fired to intensify the green glaze color.  spraying glaze on bisque is much harder than spraying glaze on greenware.     the wide open background is very difficult to cover evenly and without a mark to mar it.  so, the need to refire.  i am very fortunate, everything came out well this time.  

experiments in alternative firing techniques,
foil saggar firing, Obvara firing, ceramic saggar firing