This is actually a bowl, fairly shallow. It's still green (as are all the other pieces in these photos), but ready to go out to the bisque kiln.
This is a very blurry photo of a small plate. I'm messing around with adding some dimensional elements to my carved work. These are too big, yes, and too thick by far, but I like the feel of them. Glazing them is going to be a pain in the ass though.
This is the kind of design I end up with when the "blank" gets to be leather hard. Lots of people prefer to carve at this stage, but I am not one of them. I like my blanks to be really, really soft, so that I can push the clay around with my fingers.
This is a strange little plate, done just for the sheer practice of doing something different. It's a rhinoceros beetle larva in a little cocoon.
So...the studio. Remember how I wrote earlier that we were planning on leaving. Well, the threat of that was enough to prompt the studio director to act. Now we are not leaving, but the guy that everyone hates, the thief, is leaving. Good riddance to bad rubbish, no?
2 comments:
love those, chica! unfired, leather hard, red clay is maybe the most beautiful thing on earth, no? I always wish I could suspend my work at that stage. looking forward to seekng where you go with them, glaze-wise. xo
Yes! I love red clay. To me, it's elemental. People in the studio are always so wistful about it when they see me working with it, but it's almost like they don't feel brave enough--?--to work with it themselves.
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