Mostly Mugs

It seems that mugs are what I like to make.

When I say I like to make, that means getting them to the decorated stage, not necessarily to the glazed and finished stage

I like to use underglaze, and I like to do slip trailing,

I like to work in small groups, and use one color one day and use another color on another day

Although mostly the mugs I make  are about 4 inches tall, the other day I tried some taller ones, the ones decorated in pink, above.  The walls are quite thin and seem like they might be a bit fragile.  But I like the way they feel.

The blackboard style

These letters are all in the style of a blackboard with chalk writing on them.

Mostly I used a charcoal colored slip underglaze and trailing white slip for the decoration.

This text is the exception. For it, i just scgraffitoed  through the slip.  It resulted in a sharper, more defined line .  To do it this way you need to catch the clay before it gets too dry to carve the line cleanly.

The circular disks are a bit smaller about 3 inches in diameter.

And these ones are even smaller about 2 inches across the widest part.

These last two are just reversed color placement.

Maybe I should make some of these even smaller and thinner out of porcelain that would be appropriate to use as pendants. I could see them layered with various other types of pendants.

Last year I made quite a handful of tiny little disks like this and just stamped numbers on. Haven't really done anything with them. But they were fun to make.