I should have been at work ages ago, but here I am blogging instead. I'm tired today, Marky Mark came up last night and we worked late. Here's what's been going on.
I've been busily making domestic wares for the exhibitions in Tokyo. These are some basins, which I'll be slipping today. I haven't made pots for food in a long time. I'm missing making big jugs - that'll be next week's task.
These are drinking bowls that I made yesterday. I'll go through them today and eliminate the dodgy ones. It was fun making these as they were thrown 'off the hump', rather than weighing out individual lumps of clay, which is how I usually work. I will be sending mugs to Tokyo too, but somebody told me a while ago that my mugs will be too big for general use in Japanese daily life and although I'll make some smaller ones, it seems relevant to me to be sending some drinking bowls. I wouldn't go so far as to us the 'c' word with all it's connotations - these are simply little bowls that can be used for drinking from.
Here are dishes, decorated in a sloppy slippy fashion with green, white and orange slip, over a black slip ground. The orange is made from the clay from the stream near the workshop an looks great on a black background. My trailing style is unashamedly squirty. I find the broken line more interesting that a continuous one - when it comes to circular stuff, nothing quite joins up, so you have a line with a beginning, a middle and an end - three for the price of one!
The dishes in the foreground will have white slip fingerwiped decoration today.
I've been busily making domestic wares for the exhibitions in Tokyo. These are some basins, which I'll be slipping today. I haven't made pots for food in a long time. I'm missing making big jugs - that'll be next week's task.
These are drinking bowls that I made yesterday. I'll go through them today and eliminate the dodgy ones. It was fun making these as they were thrown 'off the hump', rather than weighing out individual lumps of clay, which is how I usually work. I will be sending mugs to Tokyo too, but somebody told me a while ago that my mugs will be too big for general use in Japanese daily life and although I'll make some smaller ones, it seems relevant to me to be sending some drinking bowls. I wouldn't go so far as to us the 'c' word with all it's connotations - these are simply little bowls that can be used for drinking from.
Here are dishes, decorated in a sloppy slippy fashion with green, white and orange slip, over a black slip ground. The orange is made from the clay from the stream near the workshop an looks great on a black background. My trailing style is unashamedly squirty. I find the broken line more interesting that a continuous one - when it comes to circular stuff, nothing quite joins up, so you have a line with a beginning, a middle and an end - three for the price of one!
The dishes in the foreground will have white slip fingerwiped decoration today.And here's the moving version.
I need to go to work, bye for now
7 comments:
I like pictures since I can not get video down in the bat cave, checking out the video later.
I sure do like the shapes on the bowls; drinking and otherwise.
Not going to the 'C' word link I thought you meant a 'ciddush cup '.Which is a cup given to the marmitzvah boys,to be used every Sabbath.Actually I cheated a bit it begins with a K.Love the hump bowls can't wait to see how you decorate.
Tim
Hehe I love the bit with you dancing at the end of the video! Fun in the Workshop- is what it's all about...
Sitting in Coffee Obsession right now, Doug, and enjoying your post. "Drinking cups" is a good way of getting around the issue. Wish we could see the Tokyo show. You'll shem a thing or two.
That should be "show them a thing or two."
Wow, you are knocking them out! Great production. Even the ones that you are going to say you are dissatisfied with are going to be great...
Beatiful decoration. I appreciate the "broken line" and it is really nice that you can use your local clay for decoration...
Cheers all, thank you for your kind words. Hollis, I wish I was there in Coffee Obsession, sipping a nice cup of tea - that just brought back some sweet memories :)
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