wordless and white 2.1.2018

with a splash of pink!

wordless and white 12.7.2107

with a splash of blue...

wordless and white 10.19.2017

bone-dry clay repair 9.21.2017

I made another coil-built vessel out of porcelain clay (you can view a similar pot I made earlier this year here.) After the latest piece was bone-dry, which means all moisture has evaporated from the clay and it's ready to be bisque fired, I picked it up to dust off any teeny bits of clay …

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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 …

unicorn cup – wip 8.3.2017

My latest work in progress, or WIP, is a two-handled unicorn cup. I threw the cup on the potters wheel, and attached rolled-out coils of clay for the handles. Once the clay was hardened up enough to carve - but not too dry - I started the unicorn decoration. Here's a cup ready to work …

wordless and white 7.27.2017

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 …