Color Feature of the Week: Baby Blue

Last week we had 800+ views!!

Baby Blue is the Color of the Week and thank you all for submitting your work. 8 talented Etsy artists have been selected here. Click on the pictures and do check out their amazing shops.

 

 

 

 

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1. Leave a comment on this blog with your favorite items from this week's feature

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2. Post your item matching next week's color, "PEACH" (Color swatch below) in this ETSY FORUM

Color feature of the week: Mustard Yellow

Last week we had 750+ views!!

Mustard Yellow is the Color of the Week and thank you all for submitting your work. 8 talented Etsy artists have been selected here. Click on the pictures and do check out their amazing shops.

 

 

If you would like to enter for a Color Feature on my blog

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1. Leave a comment on this blog with your favorite items from this week's feature

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Color Feature of the Week: Lovely Lilac

Last week we had 750+ views!!

Lovely Lilac is the Color of the Week and thank you all for submitting your work. 8 talented Etsy artists have been selected here. Click on the pictures and do check out their amazing shops.
 

 

 
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Color Feature of the Week: Olive Green

Last week we had 700+ views and 1 SALE!!

Olive Green is the Color of the Week and thank you all for submitting your work. 8 talented Etsy artists have been selected here. Click on the pictures and do check out their amazing shops.

 

 

 

 
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New Teapot Design with cups

Last weekend I attended Ginger Steele's workshop on Form and texture. We made handbuilt mugs and a teapot with textured slabs along with textured roulettes and learning how to pull handles off the pot. I don't have pictures of the work I made there, but it sure was fun to learn.

What facinated most was the process of making a spout. I love those long elegant spouts which are next to impossible to throw on the wheel. Ginger's technique of rolling the slab on a mandrell was quick and efficient. I got back home and tried one of those spouts on my extruded teapots as seen in the picture above. This is one of my first handles pulled off the pot as well.
The cups are extrusions too which are rolled. I like this new design and will play with it some more.

Thinking about teapots, 5 years back, I made a 22 inch commisioned teapot for which I needed a long spout. I used Steven Hill's method to pull a spout from a pool stick. It came out fine, but it was a little heavier than I would like. I can't wait to play around more with teapots again but it will probably have to wait till the end of the year.

Vases: Old and New

I have seen working with clay as a journey. Here is a glimpse of my journey with vases.

These are pictures of vases that I have made arranged in chonological order starting from 2000 till date.

Temoku glazed with slip decoration. This was my first piece on which I had tried slip decoration back in 2000.

This is a 18 inch vase thrown in sections and gas fired to Cone 10 in deep blue glaze. I gifted this to my mom remembering that she had a similar vase in brass.

This is when I started altering my work. These were ovaled in shape after throwing and are still sitting near my fireplace.

Here is when I started extruding my vases and had switched to an electric kiln. I was amazed at the possibilities of a extruder and couldn't stop experimenting.

My Bollywood designs make an entry to my vases. The extrusions are still altered and then embelished with slip decoration.

And below are pictures of where I am now. Adding more movement, more decoration, introduction of texture.

This is a slab built vase made with textured slabs and multiple firings.