On Loss And Neutral

I forget that all people don't realize how fragile raku pottery can be...and so this beautiful angel is no more.
It's a pity...I was rather pleased with her.

Which reminds me....

Dear Jenny,
Never be too pleased, or too proud or too happy.
It will go away and then you will feel a loss.  Try to always stay neutral....
...think beige.
Love,
The Universe

Neutral is not my nature but I must say, I am exhausted from the losses.....so I think I will try to give neutral a little more energy.

Beige can be quite nice with a splash of turquoise!
...or perhaps turquoise is much more interesting against a beige background....

New Mug Ideas

 I've been working on finding a favorite mug shape and then adding something you don't see every day...like sgraffito!
These still aren't finished.....they'll get glaze on the insides and the little one will have glaze on the bottom.  I've made several more of both shapes and still another shape that is sort of a taller version of the short one...sort of.
 I think they'll all have a different design on them...but still go together.

I still don't have a favorite though.

                  I really like the bottoms!

Summer Break

I've had a nice three weeks off from school....most of it I spent in beautiful Atlanta.


I did go to an incredible raku workshop with Charlie Riggs (raku artist extraordinaire) in SC where I made these...naked two step raku wall buttons....I have great plans for this process!


....and these...ferric chloride wall buttons.....this was a seriously fun and somewhat dangerous process....but, my mom has a respirator (for dying things with lye....'cause that's just what 80 year old women do) so I'll be using that and making very cool things.







I also got in some raku with my friend in Winder and finished these icon boxes!

...and then I drove back up to NC...where two turkeys were standing outside my front door. Apparently they spent the past three weeks admiring their reflections in the door because they made me a turkey poop door mat....lucky me!