I made this colander bowl and separate plate while at Shady Nook (Thousand Islands) in August and decorated and glazed them in the community studio at home. They have been in the community center display case ever since and have just been liberated. They are now in my refrigerator, the bowl filled with blueberries. Looking forward to strawberry season.
Here we have a class project that involved “throwing off the hump,” a process whereby you center a big batch of clay, then create small pots from the top, one after the other. These are a couple of the results from that project. Part of the project was to also create multiple lids for egg poachers. One of my lids didn’t make it, supporting the notion that it’s better to make more than one since the best time to get a good fit for a lid is when the clay wetness of the top and bottom are the same–and you might lose one. The egg poacher works well! I poached and ate a tasty egg I prepared in this little pot in the microwave. The bowl is just a small bowl.
I threw this rather large, intentionally thick-walled cylinder, then decided that it, too, should become a mug. You know, for those who enjoy a robust cup of coffee in the morning, or a substantial cup of tea in the afternoon. A smoothie? No! It’s not that large!
Big surprise, I was also experimenting. Again. I rolled out some of the same white clay to an eight of an inch thick and cut out some random designs to affix to the outside of the mug. I also dappled the non-slabbed portions of the mug with thick slip of the same clay to give it some texture in those areas. I dipped the entire thing in black glaze, then wiped it off the raised areas, leaving the glaze in the impressions. And then I wiped some teal blue glaze onto the raised areas and wiped some off (leaving a thin coat). Here is the result. The blue is very subtle. The textured areas came through as…well, interesting and not totally unexpected. Getting more control!
This mug is heavy. Could be used for drinking a beverage on a windy porch. Or as a defense weapon.
I had fun with this one. It’s a sturdy LARGE brown clay mug that feels good in the hand and makes coffee taste better. I used 1/8 in. and 1/16 in. strips of black tape to create thin stripes of non-glazed area. Then I painted on glaze: randy’s red and variegated slate blue, topped off with frosty matte. I of course pulled off the tape before baking. The handle looks a bit wonky from this angle, but it actually came out pretty good!
Ceramiclectia 