I’ve been decorating greenware. I have to say, doing ceramics as a part-time gig sometimes drags the process out a painfully long time. I feel like I have been working on these pieces for months. And, in fact, I have. So anyway, I’ve been decorating greenware and I think I’ll be able to do a bisque firing this coming weekend. I need to stripe a few more cups and dot some wax burners. The rest of it is going to be bisqued plain.

Here are some of the items I’ve decorated with underglazes. The colors are always washed out when on greenware, and they just POP! after application of clear glaze. I love to see the transformation.

I’ve made a few sales recently and it pleases me every time my theory that everybody likes something different is enforced. This week, a striped mug, two speckled bowls, some tiny bowls glazed in redwood and celadon, and a dotted single-scoop bowl went out the door. Each piece was vastly different from the others. It is nice to be assured that there is something for everyone, and that I can be my normal sporadic self and still attract people to my work.

I just got home from a two-day paperclay workshop with Graham Hay. I am so inspired! I have a million ideas running through my mind. I am going to be able to accomplish many of the things I’ve been wanting to with this new medium. It lets you stretch the clay way beyond its normal limits.

I can’t wait to get started!

I will write more in a day or two. For now, I am pooped and it’s bedtime.

I have added new items to my store! Check ‘em out!

I have a ton of greenware that needs to be decorated and fired. I’ve been super busy with work and school, but expect to fire the kiln the weekend of April 26th, and again on May 10th. Woo!