New Tea Pots (:

This one has a flaw so I didn't put it into a gallery but I liked the shape. Fun to make.

This weeks kiln was a treasure chest and totally unexpected because most of it was refire pots. I am finding that this is one of the perks of cone 6 electric firing, if you don't like the pot, reglaze it and throw it back in. I had mixed up a 'red' recipe I had gotten from the ceramics magazine and glazed the inside of one of my 11" bowls with it. It came out a slightly darker version of pepto bismol, so I sprayed it with my cobalt black glaze and put it back in.

Another gem was this 14" platter, the celadon glaze crazed like old Japanese and Chinese pottery made centuries ago, making the piece look old and new at the same time.

Its deep into the night...I just finished firing my kiln. The only sounds are a soft October rain and a train whistle in the distance.....

This is an image I took in historic downtown Santa Fe of some street musicians sitting outside the Starbucks playing impromtu jazz. This image is in an online exhibit, 'Your Best shot' at www.rohophoto.com. and also in 'Snap to Grid' at www.lacda.com.

Some pots I've made.......

mugs.....................

A large pot in progress, unfired. 30" in diameter and 32" height in its raw state.

New porceline mugs before they've been fired.

Digital Compositions

' Mountain Drive' 31"x31" I took these images on a rainy night in the St Louis city streets. My heart was on a night drive through the Sangre de Cristo mountains of New Mexico.

'Blu' 27x32 When I told someone I was talking to about this image they suggested that maybe they didn't really need to know how it came about... but I like to talk about it anyway, so here it is. One evening I made myself a juice..and those of you with juicers know that if you don't put that annoying little part in the pitcher you get a nice thick foam on your juice. I had my juice in a cobalt blue glass with a german beer name written on it and when I was done with it I set it on the table next to my chair. The lamplight shone through the foamy glass and what I saw in it made me grab the camera.My whole point to making these digital compositions is this.......the beauty in our lives exists in the mundane, everyday things, things we may pass by all the time and don't see, things we may even think are ugly, so we don't really see them. Beauty is everywhere, all we have to do is see it, to awaken to it and we can be transported by it.