Sketches

Here was the sketch of two of my cats snuggling that I tried to carve on some of my mugs.  I ended up not very happy with the way they turned out (see earlier post), but I liked the sketch!

And more old sketchbook stuff! These were for a set I did that turned out pretty cool.  It was a dinner set that was a landscape: the horny toad was in the bowl, the plate was a harvest-ant mound, the tumbler had some native grasses carved on it, and the teacup had the horny toad eggs hidden in the center.  You can see pictures of the whole set on my flickr page.

This one was another from my senior show. It shows a great dane with bloat.  In the final piece (a large tray that I handbuilt with altered pieces) his ears stick up.

Milk bottles and bisqued pots

Here are the bottles with their handles :) I am pretty happy with them.  I feel like they are a little thin compaired with the fairly thick rims, but they would also be somewhat bulky if I made them any thicker.

Here are all my carved pots bisqued!  Who knows when I will get a chance to get them glazed fired, not sure if I will be doing them in Ryans kiln or not. 

Handles!

Today I put on lots of handles!  Here are the same pots I used my photoshop skills to put imaginary handles on, but now they have real ones! Huzzah :) I am pretty happy with the way the bottles are turning out; I forgot to take a picture of the b-mix ones, but they are nice also.  I ended up putting three lugs on the wide-mouthed pot rather than two. 

These are the little milk bottles I made the other day, pre-handles. I actually put the handles on today, two small ones on each bottle, but I also forgot to take a picture of those :P 

Broken bull dog pot :(

I found the pictures of my poor sad bulldog casserole before and after it died in the firing.  Here is mommy bulldog ready for her c-section. 

This piece was salt fired, you can see the little wads holding up the lid so it would not get glued shut during the firing. You can also kind of see the cute little babies.

And here you can see how the lid split in half :(  It is propped up, but it is actually in two pieces. You can also see how it flattened out completely. Poor little wrinkly bulldogs.

Mommy bulldog is sad too. I was having trouble with my pots cracking along the cuts I was making, and this was probably particularly bad because it was a lid, and wanted to flatten during the firing.  Oh well. I'm still keeping it...

Milk bottles/things

 Today I forgot to take a picture of my pots :(   But I made some sketches afterward trying to figure out how the handles should be so you get the general idea.  It took me a while to find a picture of the sort of milk can I was thinking about, and at first I couldn't get the handles right, but I eventually found a good picture and realized the handles need to be horizontal not vertical :)  Then I was playing around with some possible designs to carve.  

I will post a picture of the pots the next time I go back to the studio.

 Also, some design ideas for the jugs.