Cream and Sugar Prototypes

So today I played around with tweaking

cream and sugar templates

I had previously made...

This pitcher is slightly larger than 

the original with more

slope to the back of it.

I never really finished the sugar bowl

design with the previous pitcher.

I like this sugar bowl design but feel

it has to be shorter.

Right now it looks like it could be

a tea caddy.

Now there's a thought...

Tumbled Pottery Shard Pendants

Each one of these pottery shards

is a piece of someone’s vision.

They are an imagined bowl, cup or platter

headed for the Holiday table

or that special pitcher for the Maple syrup

served on Sunday mornings.

But somewhere en route

to their continued existence,

they met with an insurmountable hurdle.

This in no way lessens their value 

as a symbol of a dream.

Each smooth tactile piece of clay

embodies the process it took to ‘become’

 and to wear one

is to share in this inexplicable experience!

(Each shard may be worn with either side out.)

Getting a Handle (or two) on Your Cereal Bowl

Everyone should spend the morning

enjoying their favorite cereal

in a splendiferous bowl...

And a handle helps to keep that bowl

from slipping from one's grasp...

Even the big part of a spoon is the handle;

how else would we pick it up?

So it's great to have handles on both

your spoon AND bowl.

These also work well for soup...

Look for my bowls at the

Community Arts Center in

Wallingford, PA 

during their Empty Bowl Sale

this year.

The Incomparable Cup

Discover how to construct a drinking vessel 

of true aesthetic force and great beauty – 

From mugs to steins to jorums and tea bowls, 

uncover the basic character and sensuality

 of any vessel 

intended to be caressed by human lips.

Don't miss this upcoming workshop on

C U P S

at the Community Arts Center

Wallingford, PA

7/11/2015

CREATING CLAY FABRICS

When I first started to hand build clay,

I used plain or textured clay slabs to construct my pots;

something I have come to call Clay Muslin.

I had no idea just how disconnected I would feel

from these pots once they got out of the bisque kiln!

Then I discovered I could go past this clay muslin stage

​and make Clay Fabrics from the slabs.

This process allows me to see how my pieces will LOOK

before I even know what they will be. 

Building from these clay fabrics 

makes dealing with the bisque fired pieces a breeze. ​

Too bad you missed the workshop on this technique
at the Community Arts Center.