db

I spent a few hours at the studio this evening. I actually got quite a bit done. I glazed a bowl and a small sculpture that I made a few days ago. I worked on a vase that I handbuilt last night. I finished painting a bowl and a plate, and I started painting a new platter. I put the finishing touches on three test tiles and sent them off to be electric fired.

This was my desk at the end of the night. Normally I try to tidy up before I leave. (Well, as tidy as anything gets in the studio, which is not very tidy at all.) I hate walking in and having to tidy up before I begin. It's actually quite nice to have my own little workspace because when I look at the communal spaces I know for sure that having to clean up someone else's mess before I could start to work would make me despise humanity more than I already do. This way, it's me in my own little rat's nest and I don't have to clean up anything if I don't want to.

Here's some work, new work, still in the greenware stage:

 

My pulpo bowl, iron oxide painted on greenware.

This is another sampler plate, an octopus, a cat, and a flaming heart (the flame is washed out in this photo).

This is a plate at the bisque stage, with a wash of iron oxide:

This plate and the one above are actually more platter sized than plate sized.

Hmmm. What else can I show you? Oh, here's part of my glaze collection:

 

There's a few underglazes in there, too. Some of them are marked with the mark that Dave and I share, db. We've taken a Lennon/McCartney approach to our pottery making since the late '90s, so everything that either of us makes is marked with db (d for David and b for Brenda obviously). Doesn't matter that our work no longer overlaps (it once did), we still sign the same way.