Smiling Ceramics with optional Adornment

This hand built ceramic smile-r  is made for top changes in terms of adornment. Took the photo when sun going down, so better light would add some vibrancy to that topnotch.  Will play with others - knot-less netting, ribbons, etc.  See a series coming here, different expressions. The other hand built taught me how to make this guy faster and more perhaps shapely than would have had not put myself through the prior exercise. Again need to find glazes that I like -- more "organic" in fired result, less shiny. 

I remember that shop in Soho where I bought that feather "necklace" -- many many years ago.

He doesn't get to keep it -- is mine for adventures!

   

           

Hand built, mid range fire

Was experiment, and taught me something in building.  It will be an outdoor pot, as aesthetically not hitting my buttons, but there is something in there that taught me something for future.  Still need to find glazes I like..more natural, more blended to my mind when making the pot. 

Today's Walk

Took a walk on nearby hill ...beauty all around, with city far out in the distance. So nice to have clear skies after weeks of smoke from the fires a couple hundred miles away

What you can do if you are not cooking!

Sure it is a shot that has been taken many many times (a shot at love?!).  Walking down the Embarcadero after seeing show (art) up from a friend. His work so powerful and beautiful, though the message is not light. 

Started late in the afternoon, after doing some work in the morning, but was glad to escape to make even a bigger "mark" of not doing the cooking this year for holiday. Sisters took it over this year..yeah!

Truth in Advertising

Ready for Glaze Fire

Peacock finally gets used

Peacock platter finally gets used for food -- and a Persian food to boot! Ceramics from a few years back I believe.

Repair

A bench I made a few years ago had some issues that needed to be addressed. Chip in paint, pulling apart on one side, and some wood damage (next time I pick a different wood for outdoors that gets rain).

Was interesting to repair and restore. I wasn't perfect on the wood repair part, but I forged new paths (ha..some of it was a gouging tool), doing it step-by-step over period of time.

Came upon a parade