The View From Kalamazoo

The piece from my fertile crescent assignment I’m working on duplicating: vessel with spout.

It’s complete and I’ve burnished the surface once. I need to burnish it again before applying surface decoration. (handbuilt, red earthenware)

The pieces from my ancient Greece assignment I started tonight: a cup, and a perfume/oil container (instead of fashioning it after a Greek one in one of the books we’ve been pouring over, I like this Eutruscan one, instead..and we’ll get to Rome, but they are pre-Rome and clearly influenced by Greek pottery, so…)

Red earthenware, wheel-thrown tonight. I hope they will be dry enough to trim next week, and I can throw a base and attach handles. I might totally have to use some stoneware this weekend and try to make this jug. It’s just too fabulous.

And might I take a moment to crow about the incredible online Compass of the British Museum? The images, the collections…totally mind blowing. Gorgeous.