A Platter

Here is a "large" platter, it's about 2 1/2 kilos of clay. It's my biggest attempt, and so far so good. If you look closely you can see the flower patters blurs as it reaches the top of the rim, I'm hoping to fill it in with white slip so that it looks like the flowers are emerging from the whiteness. I hope it goes well. I've never done it before.

More Teapots

Here are some more teapots that I just made recently . Some are still in the leather hard stage, which I figured I might as well take a photo of now, because I've started to loath all the glazes at my studio. It's discouraging, I don't like any of them, but I'm not going to complain. I am kind of lucky to be able to continue my love of working on the wheel while I live in Japan.

Teapots

Here are some teapots I've made kind of recently. That is, they've all come back from the glaze firing.

Random flowers and stuff in and around Mashiko

The second Noborigama at the workshop

More Pictures from the same workshop.

The first photo is of a big stack of sagers, the second photo is of some raw ware, and the third and fourth are the fire box openings, and lastly a chamber awaiting to be opened.

Mashiko Noborigama

This kiln was quite large, it could probably hold thousands of pieces. From the looks of things it had finished firing, and was waiting to be unloaded. You can see in the pictures many sagers, which I think is interesting. I'd love to have stuff in fired in a kiln like this, and I'd love to hang out and fire it too.