219 - Tea Bowls - Fish The Technique: How I did this awesomeness! Combining a slab-building and Pinch-pot method to make the actual bowl, I worked it wet and fast. While still wet, I stuck on some asphalt pieces, then I set it aside to dry slowly under paper and plastic, before sending it to … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #219 – Tea Bowls – Fish
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #218 – Tea Bowls – Cheetahs
218 - Tea Bowls - Cheetahs The Technique: How I did this awesomeness! Combining a slab-building and Pinch-pot method to make the actual bowl, I worked it wet and fast. While still wet, I stuck on pieces of asphalt, then I set it aside to dry slowly under paper and plastic, before sending it to … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #218 – Tea Bowls – Cheetahs
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #217 – Tea #13
Tea #13 The Technique: How I did this awesomeness! Combining a slab-building and Pinch-pot method to make the actual bowl, I worked it wet and fast. While still wet, I scored the outside with a fork and dabbed on some grog mixed with brown stain, then I set it aside to dry slowly under paper … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #217 – Tea #13
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #216 – Tea #11
Tea #11 The Technique: How I did this awesomeness! Combining a slab-building and Pinch-pot method to make the actual bowl, I worked it wet and fast. While still wet, I used a fork to score the texture, painted into it some red glaze, painted the outer and inner base with a dark brown engobe, then … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #216 – Tea #11
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #215 – Tea #10
Tea #10 The Technique: How I did this awesomeness! Combining a slab-building and Pinch-pot method to make the actual bowl, I worked it wet and fast. While still wet, I painted the base in a dark brown engobe, the outer sides with a pale pink underglaze, the smashed on a big glob of manganese infused … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #215 – Tea #10
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #213 – Tea #6
Tea #6: The Technique: How I did this awesomeness! Combining a slab-building and Pinch-pot method to make the actual bowl, I worked it wet and fast. While still wet, I hit the clay with the end of a small stick to make the texture, then I set it aside to dry slowly under paper and … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #213 – Tea #6
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #212 – Tea #4
Tea #4: The Technique: How I did this awesomeness! Combining a Pinch-pot and stick-tap-forming method to make the actual bowl, I worked it wet and fast. While still wet, I painted on some black engobe and dabbed on some grog mixed with manganese stain, then I set it aside to dry slowly under paper and … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #212 – Tea #4
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #211 – Tea #3:
Tea #3: The Technique: How I did this awesomeness! Combining a slab-building and Pinch-pot method to make the actual bowl, I worked it wet and fast. While still wet, I rolled it in broken porcelain crumbs left over in my recuperation bin and dabbed on some grog mixed with manganese stain, then I set it … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #211 – Tea #3:
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity – Part 8 – Exploring Wabi-Sabi
Part 8 - Exploring Wabi-Sabi The Wikipedia description fits best for this period of play I call My Wabi-Sabi. I embarked on a creative journey of seeking beauty in the imperfect. It’s here that the study of kiln errors, firing mistakes, Raku finishes, and breaking the rules came together the most. These are all done … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity – Part 8 – Exploring Wabi-Sabi
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #194 – Paper-Thin 09-001
Paper-Thin 09-001: The History: Share what you see and continue the story. This series was a challenge I gave myself to see how thin I could make the clay before it cracked... It was a great learning experience with various materials. How to slow-dry the clay, when to add engobes, how to handle it before … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #194 – Paper-Thin 09-001
The New Renaissance Mindset 