december 2014

this is one of my favorite places anywhere,  The Clay Spot! 

i went for a few hours on Monday to construct some bowls, and then again Wednesday to decorate,

There are six bowls and two plates. i used a variiety of screen prints, some mishima and a bit of slip trailing.  It has been so long since I did any clay that The decorating didnt really all come together the way it sometimes does.  however, it was a lot of fun, and I enjoyed the process a lot.

The clay is Helios porcelain so the final colors should be quite clear and the clay body a beautiful white.    we'll see... 

But sometimes plates

The other thing I like to make is little slab plates, 

We have a stack of them in use, and I like them for snacks,

This week I intended to make a small matching set

But I seem to have forgotten my goal partway through the decorating phase

Here the undersides do match..

Also made a couple of vases, 

This one I think the decoration is a bit off, it's too small scale or something

The pinkish areas were also too flat, so I scratched them a bit.  Also, perhaps I needed another color in it,