The View From Kalamazoo

Current inventory. When I went home I found some bowls I don’t have pictures of in this batch, so either I missed taking photos of some stuff, or there are more pics out there I need to find. So there may be more added later.

Anyhoo, per request: what is available is as follows (and I can make more tree tiles if there is a need or a request for certain colors, and I can try to fit in time for other commission work besides the funerary urn and Klee-tile I already have in the queue):

Tree tiles. 8″x8″ They have a hanger cut into the back, or can be used as a trivet.

Sold

Vases.

5.5″x5″d Sold 5.5″x5.25″d Sold

6″x6″d 6.25″x4.25″d

Mug and espresso cup. Prices below.

4.75″x4″d 2.5″x2.5″d Sold

Cassarole. 

2.5″x8.25″d

Bowls. Prices below.

4.25″x5.5″d Sold
3.5″x5″d 

4″x8″d Sold

3″x7″d  3.25″x7.25″d Sold

Varia. Prices below.

4.25″x5″d Sold4.5″x3.5″d Sold

9.25″d tiny bobble on edge, Sold

Latticework fruitbowl. Sold

4.5″x10.25″widest

Modified wheel-thrown vase form.

5.5″x5″d

The last of what I’ve photographed. I still haven’t dealt with my mosaic tile tabletops or tile mural – that’s for another day.

Tree tiles. These are a P.I.T.A. to photograph since I didn’t use a matte glaze, and I simply can’t get the detail to show properly. They are really much better looking in person, I promise – you don’t get a sense of the depth and texture with these shots, but they are the best I can do.



Vases.



Mugs.



Small Pitchers.



Bowls.



Varia.

placekeeper

Some experiments in ‘hey, how do I do this?’

A one-piece planter with draining. Must take a drill to this one – despite making the holes really large in awareness of the glaze movement in the kiln, I still ended up with glaze-filled drainage holes. Oh well – thrown in one piece..cool, huh?

And two forays into modified wheel-thrown forms. Eh…

I haven’t posted pottery pics in a long time, and have given a ton of it away..a lot of which, I think, I never took pics of. Oh well.

Here are a bunch of pics, some of things I like, some of things I’m not as happy with at the end but I know how I’d do it differently (which itself is not unimportant.)

I’ll have to do this is in a few postings. First batch:

Mugs and a little espresso cup.



I tried to make a kyusu and yunomi set. Yunomi turned out fine – I even carved the kanji for tea into it – but the kyusu I was less pleased with. First attempt, and stubborn soul that I am I asked for no help working out my difficulties. Ah well.



Bowls. I obviously had a lot of fun with one particular glaze combination since I used it on two bowls, a mug, and the espresso cup.



Cassarole.



I used strips to make a decorative dohickey…it’s much cooler-looking in person, and it makes a great fruit bowl.



Planter I made for my mother.



Tree tiles. I experimented with a larger version here, but I prefer the smaller style I’m making now.



(yes, clearly I’m no photographer. it’s not easy to take pictures of glossy objects with a flash camera!)