Warnick Handstone

and is - stop by the Cultus Bay Gardens Summer Arts and Crafts Fair (click their profile for event details in Clinton, Whidbey Island and all about their amazing garden space) this weekend for my and 30 other artists and artisans making ceramics, fabric arts of every type, paper arts, metallurgy, jewelry, and a host of other handmade goods. There will be food, too!

Wah wah… this big ceramic platter got all fu**ed up in the glaze firing. Still cool and looks interesting.
Its a tough thing in ceramics I find.
I put time and work into a piece (which takes weeks from start to finish) and in the end, if it doesn’t crack or melt, the piece I pull from the kiln might be nice and interesting, but not have the effect I planned for. In this case, the colored glaze seems to have been volatile and really moved around outside of the intended space for each color. I am not sure how! I will probably still try to sell this because its perfectly functional and has a nice design, just less articulate than I anticipated. At least it didn’t warp or crack.