Tiny Eye Cups, Part 1

These are the smallest version of the eye pot.  They were inspired by some tiny Santa Claus mugs that someone left at the pottery studio.  Only one of them actually has eyes on it.

Eye Cup #5

This is number five in a series of five coffee cups with a pattern of eyes.  It has 6 molded eyes and a mold of a fang-filled mouth which I recently made.  The handle is made from a slab of clay, as is the whole pot.  It's glazed with a reddish glaze called Plum.

Eye Cup #3

This number 3 in a series of five coffee cups with patterns of molded eyes, and among the first to be glazed.  It has five eyes traced with a pattern of carved curves.  The eyes are colored with cobalt oxide (or cobalt carbonate, I'm not sure which).  It could theoretically be used as a coffee cup, although it's a little heavy.

Primitive Owl Pot

The illustration from Treasury of Fantastic and Mythological Creatures by Richard Huber.  It is identified as an owl mask made of cane and bark cloth.

Bust of Ogrémoch

This is an interpretation of Ogrémoch, the Prince of Evil Earth Creatures from the AD&D Fiend Folio, one of my favorite sources for ideas. The Fiend Folio is a compilation of monster submissions to a British gaming magazine White Dwarf, credited to Lewis Pulcifer.

It originally had a lower body, but it collapsed.

I have always had an interest/obsession with diacritical marks.  This is the first time I've admitted that publicly.  I'm intrigued by the acute accent on the e in Ogrémach.  Is it like an umlaut in the name of a heavy metal band (e.g.  Deathtöngue) intended to create an aura of badassery?  I think it's more likely a reminder to pronounce the e and not to treat it as a silent letter as in the word ogre.

There is an opening on the back so that a (very small) candle could be placed inside.  I'm intending to use it as a jack-o-lantern at Halloween.

The door to the opening looks like a nipple, doesn't it?

Ogrémoch as illustrated in the Fiend Folio:

Rocky Horror Lips Mouth Mold #1

As a part of my project to create mouth molds for use as decoration on pots, I've been trying to reproduce the image of Patricia Quinn's iconic lips from The Rocky Horror Picture Show.  In the image I was using as a source, the teeth are biting the upper lip and I'm finding that hard to reproduce in the mold.  Also, the reddish glaze ("Plum") came out a little too opaque and obscured the details of the lips, and the glaze ran into the off-white glaze ("Queens") of the teeth.

Eye Post

Not only can spare eyes be arranged in a circle, they can also be affixed to sign posts.

September Bisque Firing

This week I fired my accumulated work from July and August.  I'm looking forward to a few solid weeks of glazing.

Larger Eye Clusters

I'm starting to get tired of making eye pots, but I have a lot of them on my shelf waiting to be fired.  I'm hoping to fire next week, but there are hierarchies of bureaucrats (or rather one person who seems like hierarchies of bureaucrats) complicating the process of reserving a kiln.

These are the leftover eyes from some of the new eye pots.

Round Fanged Mouth Mold

Four Tiny Eye Cups WIP

View the finished Tiny Eye Cups here

and here.

New Series of Cthulhu Idol Statues WIP

View the finished Cthulhu Idols here.

This is a continuation of my new series of Cthulhu Idol statues.  I looked up several kinds of insect wings.  The wasp wings were very elegant, but I couldn't get the right shape without printing them out and tracing them, so I went with the dragonfly wings instead.

Paragons of Giraffeness

Finished Phantom Giraffe Sculpture

A few days ago I made an object with several giraffe heads.  They weren't exactly paragons of giraffeness, but you could tell what they were supposed to be.  I was surprised at how hard it was to make a recognizable giraffe head tonight.  This is a robed undead giraffe figure.

Crude Effigies WIP

View the finished Cthulhu Idols here.

I sold one of my Cthulhu Idol statues on Etsy.  Interestingly, the cheaper, cruder ones are more popular, so started another series of crude effigies of Great Cthulhu.

Three-Headed Giraffe Tree Object WIP

Finished Giraffe-Tree-Hydra Sculpture

I sold my Trinary Devotion on Etsy last week.  I went to the pottery studio tonight intending on making another one.  I ended up with this thing instead.  Like the Trinary Devotion, it has three heads.  It's a tree with four tongue-like roots and three giraffe heads.  A recent trip to the dollar store yielded some plastic toy animals (giraffe, gazelle, rhinoceros) and I used the giraffe as a model for these heads.

My Interpretation of the Ophanim WIP

View the remains of the finished Ophanim 1 Pot here.

Back in May, someone compared my Triangular Eye Pot to an image of the (an?) Ophanim, an order of angelic beings from Jewish mythology which translates as "Thrones."  They're referenced in the song "God Save the People" from Godspell:  "Not Thrones and Crowns but men."  (They're probably also referenced the Gospel of Matthew on which Godspell is very loosely based, but I'm a lot more comfortable with 70s musicals than the Bible.)  The image consisted of two overlapping circles covered with eyes and wings.  This pot is my interpretation of the Ophanim.

Viewed from above:

The lid:

Eye Cluster

I've been working on coffee cups using my eye molds and ended up with a lot of extra eyes.  I hate to waste a good eye, so I've been grouping them into clusters.

Mouth Molds, Part 2

Wampa Objects

These are made from a mold of the face of a Wampa figure.  I used them as a guide during the construction of the Wampa Cup.

Eye Cup 5 WIP

View the finished Eye Cup #5 here.

This is the fifth and last in this experimental series of coffee mugs using eye molds.  Here it is from five different angles.