Finished pieces

 

Teapot 1: Clay: Cone 10 VC Porcelain #1. Glaze: Sweet Sexy Chun Red Reduction. Slip casted and thrown form.

As you can see, the bottom of the teapot is broken.  The glaze I used is very runny and it ran so much that the glaze made a pool around my teapot and welded it to the shelf.  My professor knocked it off with a piece of wood and this is what remains.  The spout and handle were slip casted from a mold I hand-built. 

Teapot 2: Clay: Cone 10 VC Porcelain #1.  Glaze: Turquoise Celadon Reduction.  Slip casted and thrown pieces.

As much as I love this teapot, the lid is sadly welded to the top because a little glaze ran into the crevice.  Same handle and spout as previous teapot.

Untitled.  Clay: Cone 6 Porcelain.  No glaze.  Hand built pieces and original packaging.

Hand built McDonalds meal out of porcelain.   There is a previous post about this project but here is a more professional photo.

Rising.  Clay: Cone 04 White Stoneware.  Glaze:  Linda Arbuckle's Majolica.  Hand built.

This is my first figure sculpture.  She is half to three quarters life size and built hollow.  I was rushed into building this in three or four days when I would have ideally worked on it for a couple weeks to perfect it.  I learned a lot while building her and I cannot wait to start a new one to make it even better.

Where to even begin...

Yes, I'm still alive, thanks for asking.  The last couple of months have been extraordinarily busy and energy draining that I've been kept away from blogging, and I apologize.  On a good note, I have finished the spring semester of my junior year at the Hartford Art School!  Now, officially a senior, I am taking a summer workshop where I am learning how to construct a wood fired kiln.  The first day of class was today and will last only a couple of weeks, then I will finally be able to come home!  For how long, who knows, but I just need a few days rest!  I had my very first "lazy day" last week where I didn't even go to the ceramics studio but besides that, I am working constantly.  I'll give a couple more detailed posts about specific projects that I've completed shortly.