*dimsumdolly* - the different morsels of the life of a foodie

My Pottery

Well, here's some of my more presentable pieces that came out of the few sessions of pottery classes. I threw away three pieces 'cos I thought they were terribly ugly and I couldn't bear to look at them.

This was made by using a leaf as a mould. Pretty cool huh? If it had been a bigger leaf, I could use the completed work as a sushi platter! But we were only allowed to make small leaves as my teacher only had a small kiln. I suppose I could serve one or two sushis on this one.

I handpainted this piece using a mixture of green, yellow, blue and black to get this effect. I also added bits of green glass (from a Heineken bottle) to melt into the colours during the firing. Surprisingly, it turned out looking pretty decent (I'm really terrible at painting and drawing and the likes).

The aerial view of two pieces made from the throwing technique. Big teacup, small teacup. A male classmate of mine noticed I make things always having the intent of using them as crockery and asked me, "What's with your obsession with food???" Obviously he doesn't know me!

The side view of the same two pieces. I used a yellow cracked glaze for the one on the left. For the other piece, I used the same yellow cracked glaze for the inside and a blue glaze for the outside. It's white at the bottom 'cos my teacher had put a layer of wax so that the bottom wouldn't stick to the kiln during the firing process. Because of the wax, the glaze couldn't get onto the clay.

A vase which was supposed to be blue in colour, but turned out this colour instead 'cos my teacher got the firing temperature wrong! He had set the kiln's temperature way above the optimum temperature for that particular glaze and so the colours melted and resulted in such an effect. It's not too bad actually. An accidental error gone right I suppose. Someone remarked it looks like bamboo.

Posted by DSD at October 7, 2005 9:11 AM