Cleaning!

Kristen and I worked in the kiln room this week, helping to clean both the shelves and the wall. We've yet to finish the wall, which still has terracotta clay plastered all over it, but hopefully we'll get a chance to finish that when we get back from spring break.

This is a picture of my tea pot, ready to be fired in the kiln. I decided to glaze it a nice dark purple, hopefully it'll be great, Im really excited to see how it turns out.

Raku

While searching to find raku peices, i found a site that contained pictures of "raku tea bowls". Raku tea bowls are often small and irregularly shaped bowls that were used for the purpose of drinking a powdered green tea during the Zen Buddhist tea ceremony. I've always been interested in this kind of thing. I hope that i can maybe make afew nice tea bowls to take home for my own green-tea-drinking ceremony.