coffee cups

Celedon bowl

I enjoyed doing the carving on the leather hard clay to get the design on this 8" bowl.

The Celedon green glaze is not as vibrant as I wanted, probably because my clay isn't porcelain.
I have never been able to throw with porcelain, but got some porcelain "like" clay to try next time I want to get a richer green.

white thrown clay, carved decoration, celedon glaze cone 10

copper red tea cups with lids

The lids keep the tea hot while steeping, and then they turn over to receive the tea bag.

Red is a very hard color to get, and hard to control. You can see where the kiln didn't reduce enough on one side of the cups to turn it to red. But, I kind of like the combination. The red is so nice on the side that the white just sets it off.

Wheel thrown cone 10 white clay, copper red glaze.

6 inch bowl

I really like this combination of glazes. I love the throwing process and find glazing to be very challenging. This one worked, but I have several really bad ones.

Thrown white cone 10 clay with black glaze and over-dip of rutile glaze, red iron stamp decoration.

Duncan on black paper phase 2

I put more lights on the left background and added some orange to tie in with the subject. This is also taken in cool light and not as bright as the real painting.

You can see where I taped it off to cover it in ink. After almost dry, I weighed it down to make it flat again.

I will blend the background more and add whiskers.

Duncan on white paper phase 2

I worked on this one today and like it a lot better. I'm not sure I'm finished.

This is taken when sky is overcast, and I will try another photo with the sun out. The oranges look dull here.

I'll have another go at it.

Duncan on black paper phase 1

This is the same image of Duncan done on Rives BFK
paper that I covered with India Ink and a brush. The shadows are still too dark...the contrast in values is too great.

But, this one looks more like my dog than the other, so I am partial to it.

This one has 3 layers: pan pastels and then sticks. There is no white or black used, which is alittle hard to see on this photo.