Huge Pitcher



Wheel thrown about 20lbs, 14 inches I think.











Mail order porcelain.

Received some clay and slip from Matt and Dave's clay a while back, going to use it soon :).

organic menorah?

Here is an attempt at a menorah. Carved out of a block of stoneware. Kinda turned into a motorcycle.

work from early 2011



Two bottles on the right were donated to the Baltimore Clayworks
wood kiln rebuild Fundraiser sale





business card holder





This turned out nice in the glaze firing, I'll post a pic of it
when I take one.



Sadly the handle broke off during cooldown of glaze firing.
I was not really impressed by the glaze either
so I'm not super sad about it breaking. 



new vessel designs

one vessel above, alternate angle

Tall and Short Handleless Pitchers

New design I've been working on.



 Finished, fired cone 10 gas. Phoenix stoneware



 



Small Root Pitcher

Geometric vessel

NorthStar of Lititz Pa emerging artist show

Tree lookin' thing.

I was playing around and made this. It's hollow. I made holes in branch areas so after it is glazed I should be able to make spun wire extensions. Looks good in my head :).

Jellyfish Bottles

Another bisqued bottle group.

Pitcher

Photo of pitcher still with mostly solid base and then of it carved.

I'm going to add my backlogged images gradually on here every other day or something. Here are some more. This is one bottle, a picture of each side. I spent a little more time plotting and drawing the jellyfish/octopus images before carving on this, definitely shows a lot more detail. I still have to coat this one in porcelain engobe, I'll retake images of this after that.

the long winter..................................................

You'd think being cooped up all winter I'd post more, guess again lol. So here is part one of some of the things I've been working on. Also for my fellow doctor who fans that have been waiting patiently for me to post about my painting, I have about 1/10th left to paint of version 2 which I will put up for sale soon (not 6 months again I swear...). :)

New photos of new pots and a couple old ones.

Most out of my most recent wood firing. :) this link will also be in my portfolio section.

Art on The Farm 2010, November: Sat. 6th & Sun. 7th

Art on the Farm 2010


Chiques Creek Farm

2995 Shenck Road Manheim PA 17545

Saturday November 6 : 12-8p
Sunday November 7: 12-5p
Free Admission

Most likely will be in the basement in Lancaster Clay Studio area.

jellyfish bottle carvings

Not quite done carving yet, got some detail cleaning up and adding more porcelain. Here's my progress so far, there are only 4 bottles but I have carving on both sides. Hope you aren't confused looking at the two images of either side. Now I'm not really sure what the contrast is going to be when they are fired but I'm hoping that the b-mix shown will be darker than the porcelain on top.

bottle bottle bottle..... vase?

Been working on some bottles I started making with b-mix. Some from last week, and some from this. The plan is to coat these in a layer of porcelain and carve in some images I've been drawing. These aren't thrown, I've been hand building recently. . . enjoy.

works in progress this week

Using B-mix. These are the blanks I made a post ago with some carving done.

B-mix and a lot of carving

    Started with a new clay, it's called B-mix. It is a lot less gritty than the clay I was using before, it has a lot more options in terms of glazes and carving should be somewhat more precise. These were some forms I had sitting around in my sketchbook, they will look completely different after I am done carving them. I like it so far, I plan on making some bottles out of it later this week. Spent the weekend working on surface designs in my sketchbook, they lean heavily in the Art Nouveau. Alphons Mucha was definitely a large influence.

even more bottles

     I made these forms before I went to michigan but did the carving when I came back. It's a little different than what I've been making previous, but it doesn't hurt to try something new. I spent a lot of time in the hospital room wishing I was making pottery, about all I could do was draw. So now my sketch book is filled with many designs and ideas for future projects. I'm still procrastinating doing glazing but I glazed and fired a bunch of test pieces in the electric kiln a while ago but I still have a ways to go in finding the right combination for my bigger pieces. The pictures of these aren't so great, I'll try to take better ones when they are bisqued.

more bottles

Here are some more bottles I was working on before I left for Michigan for most of July.