Apr 22
To make the surface decoration on this cup, I trailed slip made out of the same clay body. It came in handy that I had drawn several flocks of birds in my comic, coopdegrace.com, because I could draw them again without a reference. This cup, alas, is unuseable, because it has a longitudinal crack inside. …
Jan 16
This is the largest of all six of this series, and can hold maybe sixteen ounces. It has a couple dots of blue glaze that got on there by mistake, but it’s still one of my favorite drinking vessels now.
Jan 12
For the second set of weed cups, I first tried to scratch in the design and then fill it with white slip, using a metal rib tool to scrape it off. That didn’t work at all. My fellow ceramicists suggested that perhaps I had done it with the clay too wet (It was leather hard …
Dec 17
This is the same dark brown clay I used in the “dark smiley” piece. I like the color of the clay body, but it’s rather porous and soaks up glaze. I needed something waxy and opaque to compete with it, and as I learned from the momiji cups, only white satin would do what I …
