I'm testing out a new vase design, and when I test, I always make more than one test;) First I threw three cylinders on the pottery wheel. Then I threw ten spouts, even though I needed only three. It's a good idea to make more than I need, just to be sure I have the … Continue reading new vase design 8.23.2018
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, … Continue reading blue-striped vase 3.30.2017
I've got my clay&rust series just about completed. The glue is drying on my second-to-the-last vase, so I expect to be finished tomorrow. The series consists of 12 pieces, all vases. I waited until I had all the vases glazed and fired, then laid them out on a table to "try on" the pieces of … Continue reading clay&rust series 11.10.2016
Earlier this year, I posted about a found piece of rust for which I built a vase from slabs of clay. Delighted with the result, I planned a series, creating slab-built vases to match the differently-sized rust pieces. The last vase came out of the kiln earlier this week. Today, I'm documenting the vases pre-rust. Here … Continue reading slab vases 10.27.2016
This is a vase... or a wooden spoon holder... or a paintbrush keeper... that I made at the Adamah workshop a couple months ago.It measures, in inches, 6.5 high by 8 wide by 3 deep. It's hand built from a slab of clay, and I left the seam of clay, near the left side of … Continue reading painter of clay 7.21.2016
More on my clay and rust theme. I threw two pots on the wheel, then used my hands to squish in two sides in order to make a flat surface to attach a piece of rusty metal. I wrote about my hunt for rust here. The first time I happened upon a piece of rust laying … Continue reading clay and rust 7.14.2017
Blog posts shouldn't all be about successes. This one is about an UNsuccessful ceramic piece. It began it's journey to flopdom when I made it on the wheel several weeks ago. As you can see, this little vase is misshapen, but I liked the imperfections when I first made it. Then it came time to … Continue reading flop 5.19.2016
Rachel Imsland, Artist 