After years of mostly creating my pottery by throwing the pieces on the potter's wheel, in recent times I've also been doing lots of hand-building as well, making platters, plates and other vessels from slabs. Nowadays my workshop has a few varied techniques going on at once.
Here's an effort much like I've been doing for years- these bisqued bowls, awaiting glazing.
And below is my newest effort, dinnerware. Square dinnerware, in fact. So far I've worked on dinner plates, salad plates and bowls. I still have to sand these a little, and glaze and fire them to completion, so you are not seeing them in their final, ivory color, with glossy finish. But what you ARE seeing is the first prototype of these shapes, and a look at the first decoration option. I plan to have dinnerware available in limited quantities, by order, and I will have a registry for sets by late September.
This one has some simple carving and inlaid underglaze color. You get the gist:
(Dinner plates, salad plates, bowls and one vegetable server, plus a few oval incidental bowls)
Still to come: cups for this shape set, and serving pieces- a serving platter to add to the vegetable serving dish (veg dish can be seen under the single bowl) shown here. Also, I will be developing other color choices, which will make each set look different from each other while retaining the same shapes.
Before cup designs and color choices and the creation of platters, though, I've got to carry on with the regularly scheduled program. This week, the calendar just reads: glazing.
If you're in the market for a salad and serving bowl, I'll have really good new ones when the glaze fire is finished late in the week! Prices around $45.