Natural pattern

Was I thinking about breakfast?

Eggshell on legs =)


and rice porridge:


Looks like our kiln is acting ip again, so the glaze comes out a bit weird.

And two plates, same glaze that I did for the previous pomegranate drawings, but now the copper oxyde comes out very dark:

Raku

My first experience with this wonderful technique:

Summer is...

...wheat in bloom

...poppies

...and of course strawberries!

Shades of green 2

The weather today is very much like my latest work, very wet, blue and green.





And yet another "pomegranate" plate, but I wasn't too happy with the result, shouldn't have put those cobalt dots, too strong for the green glaze. So off it went to a colleague's house.

Shades of green

Our kiln has been repaired (it was a very sad month without), and I have finally new pieces to show.

I'm into little boxes lately, not very useful, but fun to make!



And I mixed all my glaze essais into something very bizarre, but quite interesting. Since I'm using it for my kusamonos, it matches plants texture very well.

Ikat pouches

For some years I had in my stash meters and meters of balinese and ouzbek ikat, just for the pleasure of looking at it ^.^
And now I finally had some courage to do something with it:




And something I would never ever dream of cutting up - a ceremonial sarong hand woven by a very generous brahmin lady, a month of painstaking work on a rudimental loom.