Spikefruit

This is a fruit I thought of. The basic shape is coil-built, and then I added on the spines. The glazes are “fig” and “red 5″ (which has a lot of copper, hence the silvery edge to it).

Textured Porcelain Vase

Porcelain vase with green celadon glaze.

Spross Cups

Little espresso cups made for my best espresso-loving friends <3

Sgraffito Vase

Curly Bowl

A decorative curly bowl for snacks, with amber celadon glaze.

Cactus/Celery Vases

Picture6 001 A pair of vases with celadon green glaze. The color reminds me of celery, except against this orange background they look like ribbed cacti.
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Mossy

Picture6 028 Little cups with “tea dust” glaze.

Spines & Shino

Picture5 105 I made this ambiguous spiny vessel out of brown stoneware, with a shino glaze. I sprayed it liberally with water siphoned off the top of the glaze to give it more carbon-trapping powers. And trap it did! I really love how each little spine got way oxidized, and how it ended up with a perfect smoky rim. I also love how each spine has red around the edges from the raw stoneware. It usually doesn’t turn out that red. More views:
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Tiles

Picture6 013 These are decorative wall tiles with some crazy undersea shapes on top. The glaze is of an unnamed color, but it’s got these subtle silver starry splashes that I really like. Maybe you can imagine these glimmering by a benthal vent.

Milky Pitcher

2010-07 pitcher Birthday present for my mom, who loves pitchers, vases, and the color yellow. I am taking a super great ceramics class at the Hyde Park Art Center, and this is my first completed piece. The pitcher is slab-built, and the glaze is “mamo yellow”. I’m looking forward to improving my technique, but this is not too shabby for now. It certainly beats the time I gave my mom a rock with ice cream sprinkles glued to it.