My daughter Noe got me interested in succulents in early 2016 and ever since we've been on a quest!!! Naturally with so many new plants around, we needed pots to put all of them into. The typical pots you can buy from the big box stores just don't have character that suits these incredibly interesting plants. So we've both been making our own pottery. And now we're branching out into other plants - Aeroids, Orchids and Citrus!!! Check out what our green thumbs have been doing!!!
Thursday, September 22, 2016
Some Pending Hand Built Pottery
I've posted on the to upright pots already, but the "alien pedestal" is new. It is hand-formed "Rod's Bod" with a pinched body (flat plate) and coiled adds (legs and spines).
I built this one to be a new vessel for the portulaca (purple flowers) I have in another bowl. That bowl is one of the first I threw on the wheel, but it is rather small in diameter for a plant that likes to spread out. These pots and at least three others are in the bisque kiln now. Maybe I'll get to prep and glaze these this weekend.
And a couple of others I built earlier this week. Another 'pot belly'
and this hybrid Tridacna shell pot. This isn't built to replicate a specific giant clam shell - it is just influenced by ones I have seen in the past, as well as pulling on other mollusk (gastropods) features.
I made this one to be balanced on detached stand. Both pieces are Rod's Bod clay pinched with some coil work.
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