In my Monday night Intermediate Wheelthrowing class this week, one of my students was stamping wonderful patterns on her thrown platter. Wonder where she got THAT idea?!

It looks AMAZING Christine!!!
I guess my work here is done…

Celebrating NATIONAL TILE DAY with a quick glimpse of my tile wall at home! Those who have made it to my Holiday Home Shows have had a chance to see it in person… but for the rest of you, here’s a few tiles to whet your appetite! Just shy of 3,000 handmade, stamped & soda-fired tiles on my wall.

Celebrating another TEXTURE TUESDAY… before I head off to class to teach my Beginners how to throw plates & platters on the wheel. They might not get quite this far tonight… but there’s always next session to show them even more!!!

Finally getting around to finishing up a little commission… of little side plates. Half with a spiral, half without a spiral… but all with stamped perimeters!!! Drying now… need to be bisque fired still… looking forward to glazing them soon!

While working on adding some details & accents to the bowls from our class demo, I ran across the one that Chelsea did for us… and I didn’t quite know what to do with it. So I started carving… and then THIS happened!

Simply enamored with how the carpenter here creatively used the ends of the boards to highlight the woodgrain patterns & textures. So simple… yet so elegant & amazing!!!

To start this week’s LILLSTREET THROWDOWN class, my students had a homework assignment… to carve patterns, designs or stories onto the 6-inch cubes they made the week before!

They came back with amazing pieces… but it was Clara that really ROCKED IT OUT!!! Her winning cube was based on some “bullfrog” rap song… which she actually brought in to play for us as she “presented” her finished cube!!! All five sides tell the story… with the bottom as “The End.”

Simply AMAZING!!!

Stamping another large platter for another Texture Tuesday! With just two handmade stamps doing all of the hard work. One-by-one pressed in while the clay is leatherhard… creating a groovy textured pattern for the glaze to play with later!

Rolling textures & patterns onto some thin slabs using my MKM Pottery Tools … press & roll smoothly to get some impressive details. The real question though… what to make out of these textured slabs now?!

Gotta LOVE some good textures… and these amazing wooden hand rollers come from MKM Pottery Tools. I have quite a collection, making great impressions for some slab projects I’ve been working on lately in the studio!