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on May 09, 2009

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A medium sized shohin with grayish blue glaze and an arched bottom profile.

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A Few Photos

Yep, I'm a slacker. Been too busy to keep up with my blog and I must say it is rather embarrassing. Oh well, at least things are going good so I won't complain. In my busy summer schedule I thought I could at least share some of my photography. These photos are really fun for me. I love taking my stock pictures and spicing them up a bit. I get my inspiration from fashion magazine covers...go figure. I absolutely love the arrangement of color and mood that I see in the fashion world. Very dynamic. This fun, yet limited venture keeps me in a good place with my pottery. It forces me to 'rethink' about glazes and matching them to feminine or masculine pots. The hard part is looking back at what I have done in the past. I can see lots of pieces, especially earlier ones, that were rather mismatched. Oh well, I will just have to chalk it up to progress! Thanks for reading....

Just for the taste of it...

For those of us who like to experiment in pottery, I can think of nothing more alluring than that which can be created by textural effects. Gouges, cracks and crevices, filled with colored oxide washes, can really add a lot of character to a bonsai container. But it is not this alone that I am happy with, rather, the way in which it is done... If you like the natural, unbridled use of the patterning in the example below, you may know what I am eluding to. There is a lot of subtle color variation in this pot. Some repeated patterning, but nothing too fussy. Here is the other side: I don't feel as if I have mastered this technique. Instead, I consider myself inspired to keep looking for nuances to exemplify, patterns to express. This smaller example has a some intentional marks added on the right side of the pot that I placed to in increase the wabi sabi look... There are several tree species that have this pot. For my taste, bucida spinosa (dwar

Maiden Firing of a Gas Giant

Wow, finally time to fire up the big guy from Olympic. This is my new gas kiln that I purchased this past December. It has taken quite a lot of time to get to this point, being that I had to build a structure/shed for the kiln and have a gas pipeline put in. It took quite a lot of time to get ready and read up on how to operate a fully manual kiln. This is quite an awesome kiln, capable of achieving 280,000 btu's of propane induced heating. Needless to say, firing it for the first time was quite eye opening! Here are some before shots of some greenware and inside the kiln during loading. First level of shelves holds some small pots and test tiles. The next level holds more of the same, with the addition of some small and medium ovals and a fun primitive soft rectangle pot. Here in the photo below you can see that I placed the larger pots closer to the top. I nestled the bonsai pots inside each other to save space. The cone pack is placed in front of the side port for viewin

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