All that kicking for only four bowls!

Upon closer inspection, I believe this wheel looks like something that belongs in a Church. It is really quite beautiful.

First tea bowl thrown on the kick wheel:)

Not as quick as the electric wheel!

Kick wheel found in magazine:)

This is the new/old pottery kick wheel that I bought from a nice lady in Martindale, Texas. She had a wonderful slab roller that I really wanted and also bought. When I saw this wheel in person, now named the "WALRUS", I didn't think that I should buy it. I told the lady that I would only buy the slab roller. The wheel was much bigger than I had thought, and it was so primative looking. When she was sure that I was not going to buy it she cut the price in half. Well, I still didn't really want it, but I bought it anyway. It was a monster to get apart to get home, but now all of that is done. While I was looking through a back issue of Ceramics Monthly magazine, from 1976, I found the walrus, and I still remember that year! I was happy to learn that the Walrus is a store bought wheel, and not a home-made wheel. Really, it looks like something Barney Rubble might have thrown on....I could be a tad bit spoiled.

Unglazed, too loud.

Unglazed

Still on the bat

Winter style, little wide for small hands

Might be a little small, but not heavy

New home for kick wheel:)

Husband helping with the kick wheel

Getting a new OLD kick wheel:-)

Waiting to be painted.....

Dragonfly winter tea bowl, white shino glaze

Mine :-)

This one might be a little heavy:

Shino glaze

Bowl made by me, glaze the same:-)

Inside

Bottom bowl

My tea bowl, fresh out of the kiln. This is my own recipe for Shino
glaze, from the Internet:)

Water jar

Made by my pottery teacher

Sweets

Inside, with oil spots

Temmoku, but not mine

Now, that's a FOOT:-)

Throwing brown again.

The white clay is nice, but not for me.

More white. Not the best pictures, because they are being taken outside....

White tea bowl?

Winter style tea bowl, not yet fired

Bottom of winter tea bowl

Inside

Tea Bowl, winter style:-)

Inside

Inside summer bowl:-)

Summer tea bowl?

Throwing

Perhaps a little loud for tea

Out of the kiln

Another tea bowl

Trevor, this is your tea bowl!

I want to learn to do this!

Pottery teacher's tea bowl

Sweets for tea

Tea

Like trimming a hard candy shell!

Another bowl, another try

Test piece, white cone 6 inside cone 7 clay fired at cone 6. I wonder if it will work?

Throwing cone 7 clay to fire at home in my electric kiln....

New way to paint, learned at a workshop!

This is a style of painting that I knew nothing about until this past weekend. It is hard to believe that in all of my fifty years, I had never heard of Chinese Brush Painting, but it is true. Needless to say, my stiff wrist and tight brush grip needs a workout. As I was told, the crimped wrist cuts off the flow of energy to the hand, AND THAT COULD BE THE BEST TIP OF THE ENTIRE WORKSHOP! The woman who gave the workshop is Elizabeth Priddy, a well known ceramic artist and potter. She came all the way to Austin, Texas to give the two day workshop, and it was something else, to say the least!

She had many good tips, and went out of her way to help a room full of women who only wanted to learn to paint as well as she did. I plan to follow her very good advice and practice my newly learned brushstrokes on rice paper, until I can paint something of a more simple fashion on my tea bowls, as the main design. There is always so much new stuff to learn!

Loading the electric kiln at home, to fire:)