Sky Trail

Walk under trees with views peeking (peaking) out here and there. 

On my back on a fallen tree, looking up. 

 

Urn, Vase with lid - Soda Fire

 

Pulled this together rather quickly on last day of class we could work on wet clay. Those balls are on top of balls -- it was a lot of rolling and slip!  Used soda fire to add some "vintage" and with hope that it would obscure some of my messy work with the balls -- was doing it so fast, couldn’t  take the amount of time needed to make them all clean at the joins.  All the rest is thrown. 

Vase - ceramics

 

Kept it un-glazed because I wanted simple and natural to work with the shape of the piece. 

Rod's Bod clay. All thrown on the wheel. 

Bowl - to flip rice with tadich

 

Made a ceramic bowl the "perfect" size to put over the pot I in which I cook tadich. This way I can flip, and hopefully have an unbroken plain of tadich! The golden brown of the rice to catch highlights in the glaze.  Bowl is bigger than what it looks in this picture. 

   

In the kiln…soda and regular high fire

 

This is in soda fire..haven’t used the glaze before, so will see. Glad the top of the piece is aligned in kiln with the bottom. 

Lower photo includes a larger bowl I made…hope my messy edge of glaze melts nicely. 

Ceramic Sculptures -- now with bases

Both are made of clay. Like the plexiglass for color and light. The one with the pink may get changed to full sheet to cover the wood...in decision process.  (The wood is clean cut....the little jag at the right there is a less than prefect background erase). Both pieces inspired by gallery/museum visits last month on the same weekend -- Berkeley(sculpture)  and deYoung (painting). 

Texture on the brown piece. 

 

Wildflower walk - one of many - Andrews Clintonioan

 

Andrews Clintonian.