ceramic plate

This was made in a figure drawing class that I took Fall semester of my senior year.  Richard (the professor) brought in a bunch of blank vases and plates that he and the Erin the kiln man made for us.  I was immediately drawn to this particular plate.  It was by far the largest in diameter (about a foot and a half).  It was the only one that was made in Canada and it had the ghostly tracings of someone else's work with a bit of teal glaze already splashed onto it.  

mother

I made this piece in my first ceramics class in my third year of college.  I think this piece was the outcome of happy accidents.  This my first time sculpting the figure with clay.  I think we had an hour and a half.  I remember I had problems with the wet clay sinking downwards so that the torso kept getting shorter and shorter.  After bisque firing it, I wanted to glaze it a blue-gray stone color with tiny blue speckles.  When it came out of the kiln I was horrified to discover that it turned out a terrible, ugly milky green toothpaste color.  A classmate suggested I glaze a darker color on top of it.  I used the dark brown wood color she gave me, hoping to give the piece an elegant polish.  The brown glaze didn't adhere very well to the first glaze but I love the end result.  You can see how some of the dark brown clings onto the initial light greenish glaze.

boot

This was the first assignment on the first day of class for my first ceramics class.  We were supposed to take off the shoes we were wearing at the time and create a likeness of it using clay.  I was wearing flip flops at the time.  Luckily I found a pair of dirty, beat-up boots in the corner of the studio that had much more character than my own flip-flops.  This was made in my third year of college.

Martin Luther King Jr. Contest

I did this one a long time ago for a contest out high school art teacher made us all do.  It is now in my brother's room at home.

self portrait from 2006

I did this one with my fingerprints.