Yet again I am starting a post with...FINALLY, I have gotten around to getting this on my little ol'blog. I have been sitting on these images for a week or more now. Here is my last group of mugs and cups complete with images fired in...and a couple of just darn nice salt fired pieces that I could not bring myself to incorporate images into...heck, even for an image junkie like myself, sometimes a nice glaze is hard to improve upon. The dark clay body is interesting and works well with the tone of the decal but I admit to still preferring a very nice white stoneware over just about anything. I would say this is the last of my dark body mugs...maybe...ok, who knows!? The stumpy, softly squared mug that appears at the top of this post is my fave...it just goes to show that sometimes you have to take it all the way before you pass judgement on a piece. I wasn't so sure about this mug before it was fired but a good glaze job and also the graphic motif and additional glaze spots really made this guy sing. Click on the images below to enlarge and inspect!
This is a big beauty of a mug...over sized, probably much better for a beer than a spot of tea...I call this one the "Yoda Nouveau" mug. As for the mugs that appear below, one is more of a mug with a tattoo than anything...the decal is a collage of sorts made from early 20th century floral motifs and long squid tentacles...quite the bouquet
. Its neighbor there is another of the dark 
body mugs ...warm and earthy. The graphic decals are a mix of my own digital photography and other assorted floral images.
The next two are thrown from a Jack Troy cone 6 clay body...I loved it...and it fires out so nicely. I have been putting some of these pieces on my Etsy shop and they can be purchased from there, while I have sold some already and a couple I am hording for the time being. As much as I liked the gas firing in the salt kiln with these pieces, I am anxious to start throwing pieces for the wood kiln...I am also anxious to be finished with my duties at the University this semester and to be able to return to the studio full time for the summer. I will be making, making. making in between firing kiln loads for Chautauqua again...but that's another post altogether...enjoy the images and happy May!
The next two are thrown from a Jack Troy cone 6 clay body...I loved it...and it fires out so nicely. I have been putting some of these pieces on my Etsy shop and they can be purchased from there, while I have sold some already and a couple I am hording for the time being. As much as I liked the gas firing in the salt kiln with these pieces, I am anxious to start throwing pieces for the wood kiln...I am also anxious to be finished with my duties at the University this semester and to be able to return to the studio full time for the summer. I will be making, making. making in between firing kiln loads for Chautauqua again...but that's another post altogether...enjoy the images and happy May!
4 comments:
totally cool mugs... love the yoda one and the two directly below it, nice to have the decals go up the center of the handle
I like mugs.
Dig em all, but the yoda one is really sweet. Things are starting to bloom here, yay for spring & summer!
How do you get such crisp images on the cups? are they put on after firing?
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