Now Where Was I?

I started posting some photos of finished work, whenever the weather provided some decent daylight, but life has gotten away from me lately, with a flurry of activities which have occupied my time.  So I'm taking a moment to post a few new photos now, and will try to catch up when I can.

25) This bowl was thrown from 2400g of Columbia Buff with Grog clay, which is currently my favourite in terms of throwing and hand building properties, and the beautiful speckles which show through the glaze, and that beautiful buff color of the foot.

I am a few weeks into Fredi's Vases class, and have a number of good pieces on the go.  This one was inspired by a technique which Fredi showed us, to produce an oval piece with lid.  The demo was to build a cage / frog on top for holding the flowers upright, but I decided to make it a solid lid, and dragonize it.

The dragon turned out a bit cuter than I had planned, it was originally going to be a fierce but sleeping dragon.  While carrying it up and down from the damp room, I discovered that it was a bit top-heavy, so added the feet for stability and tails as handles.  I really like how the handles turned out.

Recently, I've been working on some tree stumps, which may either end up as a stand for my sister for a sculpture she bought recently, or as the base for more garden totems.  Here are the first two (I say first two since I have a feeling I will be making more of these) :

I love the H440 brown clay, and think it will look great even unglazed.  So I added a bit of whitish slip to the top part of the stump subsequently, so I will not need any glaze for color.  This one was created from a 3000 g thrown tube, with top and bottom slabs added afterward.

For this one, I used 5000g of Columbia Buff w/ Grog clay, which was a lot of clay to throw.  I've attached the top slab, and still need to attach the bottom slab.

I'll put holes through both pieces, so they can be used as a totem piece, and that still won't affect their function as a stand.  Very happy with the results so far.

I've also got some garden globes / totem pieces in progress :

Cherry blossoms.

Shells.

Carnations / peonies.