MOONLIGHT

I took this photo a couple months ago using the moonlight to best show off the texture of this Hagi style teabowl that I had made. I have to admit that I really wish that the bowl looked this good in normal light but using the moon and shadows certainly have this bowl punching way above its weight. As for the bowl, this was thrown out of a sandy stoneware clay with inclusions (not grog) of various sizes, the black slip design was put on using paper resist and once bisque it was glazed in a thin coating of my Hagi style glaze and this is the result, more or less depending on how and where it is lit. I'll post up a picture of the bowl in the near future to show just how night and day these images really are.