A covered bowl with stylized leaf handle to grip. The Laura’s green glaze looks a little black when fired higher in the gas kiln. The inside is shiny red.
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.
Three vessels in Laura’s green, three feet each. Do the math.
These three bowls nest well. I have donated them to the DC Sierra Club as a silent auction item for the annual party tomorrow evening, December 9, in Brookland. See the website. Come.
Loading the bisque kiln — a new thing for me — is like loading a dishwasher without shelves. Where the dishes can break if you pick them up wrong.
It’s firing now, up to about 1,200 deg. F., then cooling off tomorrow.
And no, I don’t know what that blue thing is either.
for Pottery Shows and Sales
Saturday 5 December
10 to 5
at
District Clay in the fabulous Off the Beaten Track warehouse art space
2414 Douglas St. NE
two blocks south of Rhode Island Avenue NE
Sunday 6 December
12 to 5
at a private home at 623 Upshur St. NW
Saturday 12 December
11 to 4
Upshur Street Craft Market (10th annual!)
800 block of Upshur St. NW
Food and drink will be available at all.
This Instagram file shows products from my studio, District Clay, within the very cool and inspiring “Off the Beaten Track” warehouse at 2414 Douglas St. NE, in Washington, DC. That’s a little south of Rhode Island Avenue at 24th St. NE.
https://www.instagram.com/districtclay/
Watershed Clayworks 