Clay and Ginger
Pottery meets cooking here! CnG chronicles the evolution of my new home pottery studio and sometimes the parallel fun of cooking. These are two of my favorite ingredients in both creative activities. And you wouldn't believe the similarities - hot ovens, mixing recipes, and surprising results!
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Watermelon Summer Fruit Plate from Goldhawk Pottery (yes, here’s hoping summer gets here soon!!)
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Special Request
I was asked by the owner of the shop where I am selling some work to make this type of dipping dish, as she sells some in glass. After one unsuccessful attempt here is the almost finished product, and I’m so happy! I haven’t seen anything like this elsewhere so I’m just going to make more and see if I can establish my own little niche. What do you think?
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Miraculous Tapas Plates (in progress)
Its always the little things that make me super happy. I saw a demo from LaPella Pottery (click on photo to get it) about how to make these little plates. I’m still learning a few tricks for using my homemade slab roller (which you can see the roller off to the side) so this just blew me away. So I found some foam and already had a few pieces of wood - all of which is in the photo. Try it!! I will be making lots of these. When finished I’ll make some tapas to show them off…
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Slab Platter in progress
This is my second or third attempt and I think this one will be OK. I have had to go out of town for days at a time so previous attempts dried and cracked. For this one, I took an existing platter to create a mold and then used a texture tool to press into the edges. The single line or ridge running across the width of the platter may be a happy mistake - when I was rolling the slab, the canvas underneath bunched up to create a fold. This is almost done as I’m not sure that I will add a foot to it because it is already so dry. But I can’t fire it until I get the new kiln so stay tuned for hopefully something beautiful!
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Three Running Mice
Here’s a close up of the little mice plate that I pulled out of the kiln the other day (see previous photos to see a peek in the kiln as it was coming out!) I’ve got a lot of photo work to do but was so happy with this. I love to paint and working with glazes is a LOT harder than working with paint (this looks almost like a charcoal drawing). These mice were inspired by the children’s book The Tailor of Gloucester, a classic. It’ll be for sale soon.
