I spent mine making ceramic chocolates, something I've sort of wanted to do for a while. It was pretty spontaneous, so I just used what I had around for the slips. These are still green; we'll wait and see how the surfaces turn out after firing.
I just hope the "dark chocolate" doesn't turn blue under glaze! Yeah, while I was painstakingly applying jimmies with tweezers, i got to thinknig maybe those candies ought to cost more... I love both of your sites btw.
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Lori Keenan Watts (aka me) is a potter, gardener, and avid reader from Augusta, Maine. Though I started my university education in surface design for fabric, clay quickly grabbed me by the heart and redirected my creative impulses. I have been a potter for over 25 years -- hard to believe. The most valuable years of my ceramic education were spent in graduate study at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, under the tutalage of Dan Anderson and Paul Dresang.
My aesthetic is guided by my love of the material itself. What fascinates me and makes a pot compelling for me is the clay-ness of clay: the squooshiness that becomes the adamantine solidity. I also like patterns, unexpected proportions, and when the flame comes along and dissolves part of my careful decorating efforts! I am obstinate about this aesthetic, to a point which might be called pig-headed, but hey, if you don't like what you make, why bother?
My happy little family also includes my husband, musician and photographer (and author of the book Alewife) Doug Watts; five cats; and a turtle, all foundlings and rescues of one stripe or another.
5 comments:
Those look great. Impressive jimmies.
The chocolates look good enought to eat, even before firing. I LOVE your salt shakers!
I just hope the "dark chocolate" doesn't turn blue under glaze!
Yeah, while I was painstakingly applying jimmies with tweezers, i got to thinknig maybe those candies ought to cost more...
I love both of your sites btw.
Yummy!
I had a chocolate attack as I scrolled down and then I saw they were ceramic - very nice.
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