You are your own serendipity
I am always over the moon when the pots come out of the kiln better than I could ever have imagined. That happens maybe in 1 outta of every 10 pots. I have never seen an ordinary pot look extra ordinary after a firing. I have seen good pots look better!!! I'm showing here some slip cast pots that I have hung on to and I never hang on to my own pots. People think slip casting is a way to make multiples of the same form and it can be. I really enjoyed adding some character and serendipity to the slip cast forms. Just like a thrown form they were a canvas for me. Not so much a painters canvas as a potters canvas. Clay being my paint. What I like about these pots is that they show a joy in making. I had fun! I do a little bit of subtracting of clay but mostly I am an adder of clay. The form is the canvas. With this series I used a porcelain slip and in some cases I added stains to the slip for pink or light blue. The additions were the pieces I subtracted and sometimes they were bla...
