I went a little wild with the color palette this time. But why not? I like to drink from colorful, fun cups and assume others like to do that, too.
Fried eggs anyone? Designed with no handle for warming up hands on a cold day. Or perhaps the preference is for a cuerda seca smear mingled with greens and red-browns. The white and blue with zinc crawl is for bigger thirsts and the pink and green and brown is for happy making and maybe some mint tea.
I like orchids. And that’s why I make orchid pots. Orchids like to be watered thoroughly, but they don’t like to sit in water. They also like to breath. So that’s why I leave them in a plain plastic pot so that I can easily soak them really well once a week and let them drain into the sink. The outer dressing with breathing holes is the orchid pot, which the plastic pot with its orchid sits in most of the time. Here we have a small one for a smallish orchid and a large one for a much larger plant.
These pots are rough to the touch as I used soldate-60 clay that has a lot of sandy grog in it. They were intended for raku, but the larger one didn’t make it into the last raku firing I was involved in and the smaller one didn’t work out they way I wanted as a raku piece. I went to work with other glazes and a cone 6 firing. The larger pot also has some opal faux metallic paint, watercolor style, on the outside. Why not? It’s not going in the dishwasher!
Here is another one of my small vases wearing my tin-based white glaze and underglazes painted on to impersonate lemons, or in the vernacular of the ceramicist, a majolica creation. The nice thing about this white glaze I developed is that the underglazed lines and shapes applied on top of it not only retain their intended clarity, but the underglaze also appears glossy, as if I had used a glossy clear glaze as a top finish.
This wall and this clock have become my favorite backdrop for photographing eye-catching flower arrangements I want to remember. In this case, I was saying goodbye to one of my little “shape” vases before I lovingly sent it off to a new home, with flowers. I discovered that Trader Joes has has the perfect mini bouquets to fit my small vases.
Ceramiclectia 