Leaf prints

I've started a new series of plates and platters, and I'm testing leaf imprinting, highlighted with faience engobe.


Just transparent glaze and black slip:

These are geranium leaves that grow in our pottery workshop

Other people's pots and stuff

We do buy from other potters, actually I can't grasp how you can copy someone else's ceramics. It's just technically impossible. Someone else's hands, clay, glaze and firing, this combination is so unique each time, that I have trouble reproducing even my own creations. So when I see pottery I like, of course I buy it.
Plates by Martine and Claude NOREK:


Salt shakers in form of pears and tomatoes and dainty saucers by Jean-Marie DELAHAYE (Villaines-sous-Malicorne):



And a family of mugs by Marie-Paule VERPLANKEN:

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The dahlia maze of Chaumont. Must be the prettiest and the biggest dahlias I've ever seen.

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Water and plants.

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This weekend we went to the Garden Festival in Chaumont-sur-Loire. It was magnificent, as always. This year's theme was collection. A collection of clovers, a collection of 101 pelargoniums, including one that smelled of propolis, a collection of ferns, mosses, and the list went on and on.
Here is what I collected.
Fluffy white:

Four little teapots

This time I tried new spouts, cut open on top to see if the liquid pours better. Well, it does seem to work, but  judging from all the teapots I've tried out, the best spouts for pouring are the long "S" curved ones, are thick at the base and have a little lip to prevent the dripping. But these are the hardest to make.

That green is back

Since people were asking about it, I've redone quite a number of pieces in that bluish green that was my favourite three years ago. Well, as colors go, it portrays my mood nowdays: stormy blue and green.