pot #51

What shall it be?
Another small piece. The last few pieces on the blog ahve come from the top shelf of my dish dresser in the kitchen. I bought this at the Prairie Village Art Fair (I think)...in the 90's. I have forgotten what I paid for it...it couldn't be much as I had just bought my house. Pottery is my vice and even though money was tight, I bought a tea cup and saucer.

The potter's mark is scratched in...2 short lines intersected by a long line...like an elongated "H".
The entire set is 2.5 x 4 x 3.75". It is made of porcelain and has applied stained everywhere. What you see is what you get.

pot #49

another little treat...
I purchased this at the Prairie Village Art Fair...back in the mid-90's. I forgot who the artist is, but the mark on the bottom in Red Iron Oxide is 3 vertical slashed with one slash through the center.
This is one of my favorites and a bit of an inspiration for me. I can't tell if it is hand built from a porcelain slab or thrown and left rough. There are no seams (like I would leave). If it is thrown, then the lip was, obviously, cut asymmetrically and smooth and the piece was cut from the wheel and left as is.
A textured coil handle was attached in much the same manner as I do handles now (my inspiration)...
The piece is glazed inside and out with a clear glaze and some colored stain or glaze.
This cup is 3.5" x 3.5" (with handle) and 2" wide (w0/ the handle). It holds about 1/4 of a cup of liquid.
Sweet!

pot #41

Another Cindy Buehler! and another kinda bad picture. This lovely sgrafitto piece by Cindy is 3.25 x 3.25 x 1.75". As with the other sgrafitto piece, it was thrown, trimmed and then coated with black slip over ^5-6 porcelain while leatherhard...the slip is then carved away when the slip is dry enough.
This piece is glazed with a clear glaze on the inside and a purple glaze on the outside.
It sits on my stove...waiting for a spoon or fork to rest upon it.

pot #40

It's a Cinderelish jubilee! Another great piece by Cindy Buehler. This is a nice long tray made with a 'wiggle wire'. Basically, Cindy pulled one of those spiral wires through a block of clay and then 'threw' it horizontally against a table top to stretch the form. She bent up the sides and the ends for easy lifting.

It is 15" long by 6" wide and is about 1-1.5" tall at the ends. It is made of ^5-6 porcelain, oxidation fired and glazed with a commercial green glaze.

Love it! It is great for olives, berries, cheeses, small cup-cakes.

October 18, 2010

I am pretty excited, but I am gonna hafta bust my butt. I contacted a gallery and they want work by November 2. Yikes! I will be in the Plaza SAV*ART gallery (http://www.sav-art.com/)

I spent most of the day in the studio. It was hard as it was a beautiful day yesterday. Spent a lot of the day, Saturday doing the same.

I made boneguy snowmen with lids, a couple of Xmas trees, a some boats/wagons with wheels to set the bone guys in.