The Other Vagina Bowl

American Gothic Farmer Cup Practice WIP

I want to make a mug with an interpretation of the severe-looking farmer from Grant Wood's painting American Gothic and these are my practice objects for the image on the cup.  I like how the larger images look, but they don't give the farmer enough forehead.

This is the image I want to use for the cup:

American Gothic by Grant Wood.  Note the prodigious forehead on the man.

Crying Eye Pot WIP

Finished Weeping Eye Pot

This is a tall (9 inch) slab pot with a progression of crying eyes.  I think I'm done with the crying eye pattern.

More Tears WIP

Finished Eye Cup #49

This is Eye Cup #49, another eye cup with tears.  I'm not feeling especially sad, but I like how these are coming out.  I have at least one more planned.

Eye Cups With Tears WIP

I'm finally finished glazing and back to making new things.  Eye Cup #47 came out slightly irregular, but it's hard to tell unless viewed from above.

Finished Eye Cup #48

Eye Cup #48 has the same design but it's slightly closer to being circular.

Chamsa Pot

This is a slab pot intended to hold small chamsas at craft fairs.

The chamsa pot filled with chamsas:

72 Small Chamsas

Eye Cup #45 With Three Large Eyes

This is the last of this batch of mugs.  It's divided into three sections of plum/deep red, pussywillow/indigo, and emerald green glazes and the irises of the eyes have the same three glazes.

Phallic Monster #6

This is a primitive sculpture of a creature with a penis for its head and tail.  The Etruscan bronze sculpture it's modeled after also has an erection where you would expect to find one, but this one is in a crouching position and I couldn't fit it in.  The top comes off to reveal a secret compartment.

Eye Cup #46 With 30 Small Eyes

This is a slab mug with 30 small eyes embedded in the surface.  They're the same small eyes I use to make the small chamsas.

Eye Cup #44 With Ten Eyes

This is a copy of Eye Cup #36.  It has three sections of overlapping glazes and ten eyes in the same three colors (purple, emerald green, and plum/deep red).  Maybe it will sell and that's obviously all that matters.

Wall Cthulhoids

This is a set of four flat Cthulhu objects and one squid object to be hung on the wall.  The Cthulhoids were made by cutting out symmetrical Cthulhu paper dolls and tracing them on clay.

Chamsa Cup

This is Eye Cup #43, the Chamsa Cup.  It's a hand-built mug with 6 small chamsas on the outside.

Chamsas 146 - 150

This is a set of 5 chamsas modeled after some of my older chamsas as requested by someone on Etsy.

Chamsa 146

Chamsa 147

Chamsa 148

Chamsa 149

Chamsa 150

Vaginadactyl Fruit Bowl

March 2015 Bisque Firing

I had a mostly successful bisque firing.  The important piece survived the trial by fire and so did most of the other objects.  The nice symmetrical mugs are not my work.

This phallic monster sculpture shattered.  Luckily it didn't take out any other pieces.

I kept the head.

The Vaginadactyl Fruit Bowl