Jun 16
I made these cups for my friend, originally planning to put a very snarky thing on it, but I decided at the last minute to use this glaze combination instead. It’s a combination of black satin and oasis glazes. I like its subtlety, and it has a good weight.
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 13
This was the sister cup to Momiji 1. I was experimenting with glaze techniques, so I used a different one on this cup. For this cup, I used white satin glaze plus a shino. Shinos can be a great way to bring out detail, especially details of depth. While it’s interesting, it’s not quite what …
Dec 10
I got the idea for this series of pieces from a link my friend showed me of an intricate ballpoint drawing on the outside of a styrofoam cup. I wanted to do the same thing, but in ceramic. For the design, I took about a hundred photos of plants while I was visiting a friend …
