Just a quick pictorial teaser that I have been busy on new designs, which include sets, pedestal forms and little bits of color all ’round. More to come with new adds in my stores, like this!
Posts Tagged 'plate'
Newness Teaser
Published June 28, 2011 NEW 4 CommentsTags: cup, design, etsy, handmade, pedestal bowl, plate, porcelain, pottery, stripes, tableware
The Year of the Stripe
Published October 19, 2010 NEW 5 CommentsTags: ceramics, covered jar, dinnerware, etsy, handmade, plate, porcelain, pottery, stripes, surface decoration, wall tile
I titled this post before remembering that 2010 is actually the year of the tiger in the Chinese zodiac. A fitting animal for my very striped year! The stripes and polka dots of layered color are another way for me to visually pop the pattern and draw the viewer’s eye around a form. Plus, I’m having fun deriving influence from here. In the last 10 years, my work has evolved from just ornate to (I hope) elegant, and now I’m entering my…joyful?…playful?…perky?…stage!
Most of these are —or soon will be!— listed in my Online Store for the holidays.
Fresh & Ready (Plates)
Published October 5, 2010 Happenings , NEW Leave a CommentTags: ceramics, handmade, plate, pottery, stripes, studio sale
I’m setting out plates that are fresh from three kilns and getting ready to go to Ayumi’s Studio Sale this weekend. Thought you’d enjoy the array of stripes! See another plate pic here.
Serving Up Stripes
Published August 22, 2010 NEW 4 CommentsTags: ceramics, cone 6 electric, dinnerware, DVD, etsy, handmade, how-to video, instructional, plate, pottery, serving, stripes
Brand new serving plates in three sizes and a variety
of sumptuous and striped colors! Some available for purchase here.
I throw each plate on the potter’s wheel, trim the foot and alter the rim, giving it some undulation. I also decorate the surface with sponged and trailed slip (the clay version of cake-decorating), swirls and dots of shallow texture and relief patterns. The stripes and/or large dots of color are underglazes and are finished by dipping into one of nine glossy glazes from my palette and fired in an electric kiln to cone seven. If you are a maker and would like to learn more about my and other surface decoration techniques, check out my instructional DVD here!
Summer Tour & 2011
Published June 8, 2010 Happenings 3 CommentsTags: cake stand, ceramics, cone 6 electric, flower brick, plate, pottery, The Studio Potter, Workshops
I am about to head off on my “2010 Summer Tour,” so thought I’d do a blog post before this almost six week hiatus. I have been a bit delinquent about writing here lately, and though I post regularly on my Facebook Ceramics page, I’ve just been too busy with my studio sale, making work before leaving, and enjoying being in, or on the porch next to, my perennial garden. Pictured new striped cake stands just unloaded from the glaze kiln (and The Studio Potter thank you postcard for donating via AKAR’s yunomi invitational).
The first leg of my tour is a drive down to North Carolina so I can teach for the first time at the Penland School of Crafts. I know firsthand how great a place Penland is which makes returning to teach for two weeks with my own large class of 20 (and with ceramic artists Jenny Mendes and Alice Ballard teaching in the other studio), a fantastic treat.
The second trip is my second Artists-Invite-Artists residency at the Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts. The first time I was invited; this time I am a co-inviter with the talented Rebekah Bogard. We met during the same AIA residency two years ago, and were having such a wonderful time, that by the second or third night, we sat down and came up with a list of artists for our next residency. Now two years later, in addition to showing at the Salad Days Pottery Invitational, our AIA group of talented (and fun) artists will be converging on Watershed very soon for two full weeks of making and mayhem: Kurt Anderson, Mark Burns, Jason Green, Bryan Hiveley, Kathy King, Phyllis Kloda, Lorna Meaden and Nick Sevigney. Pictured new striped plates just unloaded from the glaze kiln.
The last stop is not at all the least. I am very much looking forward to a week of teaching for the first time at the Appalachian Center for Crafts. And since this workshop is over my birthday, we will have an extra special time! Check out the Schedule page for my fall workshop tour schedule. Pictured new striped house form, flower bricks just unloaded from glaze kiln.
Which brings me to the beginnings of my schedule for 2011. Workshops are always being added throughout the year, so check back on my Schedule or Workshops pages. I will be making a return trip in August 2011 to the Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts where I was an artist-in residence (1997-98), and taught one of my first workshops in 2004. I’m looking forward to the new and familiar, and Gatlinburg is always a riot. Check out Arrowmont’s website for information on their re-location efforts, and how you may be able to help insure this great place has a new space.
So that’s where I’ll be for the next six weeks, and some of where I’ll be at this time next year. I’ll be back here (home and the blogosphere) in August. But if you don’t see a post it’s because I’m helping my hubby renovate our bathroom….or catching up on lost time in my garden. Happy Summer, everyone!
