Clay Craft

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

"Air and Simple Gifts", composed by John Williams

Yo-Yo Ma , Itzhak Perlman , Anthony McGill & Gabriela Montero at the Obama Inauguration

Sunday, January 04, 2009

Another chawan by Hank......


Another chawan by Hank......, originally uploaded by claycraft.

.... made from Ko-shigaraki clay and fired the same way. The color is
orangey rather than the pink of old shino, due probably to the sodium
rich spar. Perhaps a potassium spar would yield the pink?

Chawan made by Hank in Mashiko.....

........from Ko-shigaraki clay and fired in my gas kiln in Eugene OR
with a long soak in oxidation around 1900F during the cooling.