WEE BIT-O-GREEN

So here is a wee bit-o-green for Saint Patrick’s Day or should I say a pot full of green? This bowl was thrown out of a rather sandy stoneware clay and then while still rather wet, quickly and unevenly faceted to show off the texture hiding under the surface of the clay. The foot was tooled on the wheel but still has a rough, natural appearance because of all the tearing from the sand and once bisque it was glazed over in my Oribe combo producing what I tend to refer to as Kuro-Oribe due to the dark, droozy blackish surface. The combination of the sand punctuating the surface along with the running tendrils of color and the deep collected pools of green make for an interesting landscape that may or may not remind one of Ireland but since it isn’t easy being green, this is about as close as I could get.