turquoise

This cup is the very reason I started throwing. I wanted it so much (but bought a bowl instead) that I just had to do it.

But this is the closest in colour that I could get... very rough and grainy.

So when I saw Markus Klausmann this year at the Journées de la Céramique, I fulfilled that wish on the spot =)

The inside is mesmerizing! Makes me think of raspberry jam smears.

And he makes beautiful teapots. There was one at the show that was an immediate love for me, but not for my purse. Will be looking for that intricate branch to make a handle now...
This is of his older work.

The things he makes

While I'm sticking to the tradional methods of making things, like drawing, sewing and throwing clay, my husband takes the creational process to a higher technological level...
This is an open source 3D printer that he assembled:

The plastic from the spool goes into the nozzle and onto the hotbed:

And this is what you can make:

It's a soma cube! Ideal for keeping kids quiet and occupied for a long time =)


And why not print it's own packaging box...

yellow

Playing around with patterns. I definitely have an affinity with stemmed blossoms... Next step is mastering the same process in PS, not that I don't know how to do it, Illustrator is just so much faster!

flower doodles

Mostly tulips.

Other people's pots and stuff

Was at a local pottery fair this weekend and of course I didn't return with empty hands. Because second most enjoyable thing after making pottery, is buying some pottery =)

Pots!

So nice to see a glaze finally working! It was superb on a tester, a catastrophe the first time on some bowls... that were still as bad glazed and fired a third time... and now I managed to apply the right layer of the stuff to have these hues of parme and green.




And this one is a slight intruder, being of a different glaze, but still from the same series of base and oxydes used.

hues of blue and pink

A vase for succulents that we picked up in Amsterdam.

There were so many of them, it was a difficult choice! This "bunny" came home with us, but will be having a pot of his own, being such a prickly neighbour...

And my starflower is blooming! It is supposed to taste like cucumber but I like the blue blossoms so much I don't dare to cut it.


And now waiting for these to mature :)