"Halloween Bowl"

"Halloween Bowl," raku of a light-clay bowl with red and orange glazing, including an undercoat of white with areas of wax resist.

“Celadon Dabble”

“Celadon Dabble” bowl created in light-colored clay with dabbles of “slip” (wet, soft, excess clay from “throwing” the piece) and glazed with Green Celadon (translucent).

"Death Mask"

Bisque fired (unglazed) sculpture.  I realized when posting that it looks like a death mask, hence the name.  I'm not sure whose, but I assure you, it's not you.

"Vase of Impression"

 Hints of Claude Monet's impressionist paintings of London and Le Havre.

“Blue Perfume”

Small jar with a ceramic stopper.  (Stopper pulled for illustration.)

I love the beautiful mottled blues.  Could be used for oil, though makes a great decoration piece.

“Wisp of Woods”

                                      Display dish with lichen-covered twigs.                                           (Selected twigs mounted on a shallow bowl with floral display base/spikes.)

“Imperfect Beauty”

This small vase broke during a "horse hair" Raku process.  (This piece wasn't glazed and the tongs cooled the thin rim before I could set the pot down and the repaired portion is not visible in first view.) 

Raku ware (楽焼, raku-yaki) is a type of Japanese pottery traditionally used in Japanese tea ceremonies, most often in the form of chawan tea bowls. (Removal from kiln while hot, which results in cracking created by rapid cooling.) 

(The horse hair technique used, not hot enough to crack the unglazed pot, singed the horse hair.  The hot clay body absorbed and trapped the carbon as it rapidly cooled.)

 

Recently, I decided to attempt a Kintsugi treatment. 

Kintsugi (金継ぎ, "golden joinery"), also known as kintsukuroi (金繕い, "golden repair"), is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum, a method similar to the maki-e technique.

 “Voilà!”  (Though not as easy a process as it may seem.)