studio renovation 11.18.2021

I'm starting to make my own ceramic glazes, now that I have my own kiln. And I needed space to store the glaze containers in my small home studio, located in what once was a kitchen on the 2nd floor of my home. I decided to renovate these old kitchen cupboards to be a glaze …

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my own kiln! 9.23.2021

This year, I discontinued my membership to the local community ceramics studio and ordered my very own kiln! I bought an L&L e23-M3. It's got 5.5 cubic feet of space, almost 2 feet across, and a little less than 2 feet high on the inside. Not huge, but not teeny. I didn't want a kiln …

round vases 9.6.2018

Here's a group of round vases I recently finished. A few of these vases are currently available on my Etsy site.  I love the way they turned out, and intend to make more!

glaze test 6.7.2018

I bought a few new containers of Amaco Potters Choice glazes, and decided I'd like to try and combine the glazes to see what happens when they're layered. Ceramists often experiment with these "glaze tests." The plate is one I made from a rolled-out slab of clay. After the bisque firing, I layered 6 glazes, …

unicorn cup – fin 9.7.2017

I wrote about the work-in-progress (wip) unicorn cups in this post. And at long last, they're fin (the French and Spanish word for "end", which I've seen used so often in foreign films, and I always like to use that term if I have the opportunity;) Here are pics of the finished pieces. These were …

wordless and blue 6.22.2017

porcelain vessel 6.1.2017

I bought my first bag of porcelain clay a couple months ago and have been hand-building a few pots at my home studio (which I've tentatively named Atelier Imsland;) ) Rumor has it the porcelain is "fussy" but I've had no problems with it... yet. Perhaps because I'm fussy about all my pots! Here's my …

another wire bowl 5.25.2017

Here's my latest wire bowl, made with red clay and used kiln wire. This is the 4th bowl I've created in this style. It's hand built from coils of red stoneware clay, then I push half-round pieces of used kiln wire into the clay before it dries. I leave the outside of the bowl unglazed. You …

story of the stuck lid 5.11.2017

A couple months ago I enrolled in a one-night session of a handbuilding class at Midwest Clay Project. The guest teacher was Rachelle Miller from Hands In Clay (who is a great teacher, by the way!) She focused the class on lids, and that night I made this beautiful piece. The glaze is Coyote Opal, …

blue-striped vase 3.30.2017

This is a recent vase I made. It's slab-built, meaning I rolled out flat slabs of clay, cut the front and back and bottom out from a paper pattern I'd made, pieced the clay pieces together, then added the top curved rectangle shape to the vase opening. Before I started applying glaze to the vase, …