Cereal bowls and milk pitcher? or ice cream bowls and hot fudge pourer? You decide.
These pieces are in porcelain, rather sturdy instead of paper-thin, glazed in a barely-blue celadon. There are actually six bowls in the set.
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The blue ash glaze (recipe from Briscoe) looks accidental and random, earthy.
But apart from the sky (often) and water (sometimes), why is there not so much blue in nature? The blue berry, blue bird, and blue butterfly are absolutely attention-getting.
Created for the recent District Clay open house. Each visitor picked a cup. First come, first served.
In Berkeley Springs, the obsolete chimney has a hole, these birds need a nest. To be continued…
Later in life, still enjoying the outdoors.
Earlier this month, potter friends Carolyn and Holly and I drove down to Floyd, Virginia, for the open studios of the 16 Hands potters, looking for inspiration. We visited the studios of eight potters (do the math) plus a a few of their invited artist friends.
This piece is by Elisa Di Feo, who works with her potter partner in a fantastic little place. This cup got to me after I walked away a few times. The blue underglaze crayon scratches are childish, but the fine etched lines are very grown up. A fine edge separates matte and shiny surfaces, both white.
Floyd is worth the trip for the rolling Blue Ridge mountain landscape, the steady sounds of local music, the fertile creativity with clay.
An industrial accident. Just kidding.
This Saturday, 7 May, District Clay will have an open house and pottery sale. The first 100 people in the door will receive a free cup, made by a variety of us. These are some of mine.
This blood-red glaze (Pinnell’s red-orange, it’s called) is a rich, true red. I use it inside all of my covered vessels, whatever the outside glaze, likening the piece to a human body, which is also red on the inside, if you’ve ever looked. An exception is that it is a steely gray when applied thinly, as on those two pourers. I like that too.
A small baker with oceanic traces, glazed in celadon and opal blue, with unglazed handles. The provenance of the shell is Assateague Island, not that it matters.
Lots of little bowls, for garlic, cinnamon, curry, mahlab, zaatar. Whatever you’ve got.
Various glazes. Photo by me December 2015.
These and pieces like these will be for sale at the Upshur Street Craft Market on Saturday.
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