Little Pig Tea pots & Other addictions

[Littlepig2]

Hear ye! Hear ye! I am now out of number 1 pottery plaster for the fall of 2009 and I am not going to get any more until fall of 2010! Hence this post. (Yes there are 12 step programs available but I am not ready ) I leave you with an image of my last hedge apple of 2009 and the half mold made from her.
The mold is around 3.5 inches in diameter.

[JBaymore]

What would we all do without that #1 Pottery Plaster! It is a love / hate relationship for me .

best,

..................john

[Littlepig2]

Thanks John--I quite agree on the plaster love hate thing

Now for some new news! a couple of my porcelain hedge apple tea bowls have made the firing. Posted below are two views of the same bowl


More will be fired Monday and posted. . . when I can get to it!

[Victoria]

I want!!!!! Lovely!!

[IPT]

These are so beautiful. I like the white interiors. They look so natural.

[Littlepig2]

Five Hundred Million Years Ago
There is a pale sun on this November day
And I am in the wood along Elk Creek
Watching crisp October glory
Descend in deciduous decay.

The ground is dark--almost sticky
It is a thin carbon skin
Dressing Ordovician limestone.

Not much is happening in the bed of Elk Creek.
The water is barely stumbling
Over her flat stones and she is telling

That it has not rained in some time.
Yet the trail seems not to know
It is slippery underfoot and in places
Hides beneath a coat of moss.

I go gently up that green trail
Through the softening litter of oaks.
Also there--I find the moldering
Children of the hedge apple

Still clinging to mother tree are one or two
But most are on the ground—going pale.
They are such characters these lumpy orbs
And they form a magic circle--calling for me to step inside.

I am caught now—in the web of looking
There is little to hear
Just the persistent cry of a bird I do not know.

I want the perfect one
Large and well formed without undercuts.
These hedge apples--I think they are my friends
I call them brother fruit
I mean to tell them
That they--are a magnificent ruin.

Jean Ann Bolliger 2009

[Littlepig2]

Yesterdays kiln opening netted a few tea bowls--all were stoneware and most were somewhat disappointing. It is a new thing for me to have the light to white interior and I am finding it to be a more difficult learning curve than anticipated. Here is the one child that I found pleasing. It was a second glaze fire. The inside glaze got lively and interesting with the second firing.
Am I going to send the ones I am not so happy with back to the kiln? You betcha!

[Chip]

ooooooooooooooooo....ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, love the interior (and exterior too)!

[Geekgirl]

that interior turned out lovely!

[Littlepig2]

In mid December it gets very quiet in the art center studio I work for. The building is closed and everyone is away doing their holiday thing. That means I pretty much have the place to myself.
I leave you with an image of a few porcelain bowls waiting to go to their biscuit fire.

[Victoria]

Wow, cool!

[Geekgirl]

Oh, I like!

[Chip]

... definitely looking foward to seeing what you can come up with in the glazing/firing of these! They look great.

[Littlepig2]

Here you go--a couple twice glaze fired hedge apple tea bowls--fresh from the kiln. These are stoneware. More pictures later.

[Geekgirl]

Oh wow! Love that caramel color inside!