Green ware

My project "Thing a day" tanked terribly!!
I could not keep up with the tons of commitment I thought I could handle! But seriously I was doing a lot of stuff during the whole month. I am taking a mosaic class, a sewing class and continuing with pottery... all this with some travelling, attending parties / events along with some serious addiction of Desperate Housewives ....ok I will stop now. (just trying to explain my seriousness)

Some pottery stuff I worked on lately...
Here's a baking dish, I luv these, they also fit in my toaster oven. And my fav. part of making them is decorating the handle!

 Mug with a cage free singing bird...

 Feel free to admire the sunny-ness :)

I have been experimenting with hand building, the results I'd say, not very pleasing. It takes more work than throwing on a wheel, but one thing I can achieve with hand building, six identical bowls which stack.!!!

If the shape seems familiar, its because I used one of those regular styrofoam bowl as a mold. And the white stuff is talcum powder to prevent clay to stick to styrofoam bowl.

This is one of those thing, you put stuff and hang on wall...ok I am sounding weired now. 

This looks like a guy with googly eyes smiling :)

And all the lil swoopli things I made on the pieces is courtesy this awesome clay gun. It makes intricate details a breeze. 

Some bisque ware

I don't blog for months and then there is a post overdose :-)
These are some of the bisque ware recently out of the kiln.
One is a casserole similar to the one I showed in my earlier post and then there's this tall square box/canister- its hand built. And the third one is actually a jar with lid and I intend to make it a candle holder. I m very curious to find out how a candle would look inside it when placed in a dark room.
I will be glazing these and will anxiously wait for the final results...

Random updates

I guess to put it mildly its been a while that I blogged.
While I was'nt blogging I was busy with multiple things. I made a trip to Atlanta for a professional training and it was kind of a big deal...when I say big deal I mean its was the FIRST time I was away from home all on my own. Yuppie there I said it...never before have o been on my own. I have been traveling alone since a very early age but always ended up living in a home...weather mine or some body I know. Never lived alone even for a short while. And hence going alone ...living at a hotel all by myself ...all this for 5 days was quite an achievement in my books.
After the training I have been very busy with the office work. Shortly after that Enn went for a 5 day vacation without me :( .. with his boy gang. He asked me before going and I said feel free go ahead have fun....but when he went away it was kind of lonely. But my very good friend P kept me good company. In fact I stayed at her place most of the days.
Then we were visited by my brother in law for week and we had a lot of fun together. We did a bit of traveling around. Well the traveling part deserves a post of its own...and I don't trust myself weather I will post it or not. So in interest of blogging I will go ahead and upload some of my pottery stuff that I made recently.

I am really glad how the casserole turned out. In fact with the casserole I had a proud moment...when I first saw it, I thought that my instructor made it....only later to realize that it was made by me....after the glaze firing I really did not recognize it. ohhh I look fwd to baking food in it and flaunt it :)

Also I got myself a new toy...its the Droid Incredible ,finally I said good bye to my crappy phone and got this fancy thingi. This post was created on my phone, and all the pictures in this post are also captured by it. But I had some error posting to blogger using my phone because of the post size. Let's see in future I will experiment with smaller size posts. I think mobile blogging will be a new world...:)

Pottery update...

I made a lot of pieces in my clay studio class, but did not get a chance to upload them here.
There are from my initial classes, and hence wobbly and asymmetrical. Alot of these are are hand-built, because I wasn't confident enough to throw on wheel.

Warm pottery from the kiln

Alright not very true to the title,this is not my latest work. I got it sometime back,but did not get a chance to post it.
Having said that, a couple of days back in the clay studio, my instructor took out some fresh pieces from the kiln and they were still "warm"...ohh it was soo ammazing to touch it.
Every time the pot that serves the hot food is warm...this time the pot it self was cooked and hence was warm.
Here are a few pieces that I made for Enn's family..

This is a mug for his dad, in our native language Marathi father is called baba...


and this one is for his Mom... in marathi Mother is called aai...



Also for Enn's brother...I made a mug with his nick name on it.


Also I tried my hand in making vases ...these are really itty-bitty, like 5 inches in length..
This one has pretty plum color...the photo is not doing justice to its color.





And also made a jar with lid. Now that i look at it, I think I could have given the lid a different color.

For the man himself...I made a beer mug (he kind of asked for it)...its pretty big and really heavy.

Take a look at its handle...originally I had added only one handel but later I realised that it too thin for the mug...by then it was too late to remove it, so I added two more supporting handels to it. Kind of gave it a fancy look :)


And this one's for me...pretty polka dots...