More Ceramics

Jon Singer came last night, bearing gifts.

Included among the gifts was telling me that the glaze of the near black tea cup from the last batch of pictures I had is made from the dirt from Neil Gaiman's backyard.

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More Ceramics

Jon Singer came last night, bearing gifts.

Included among the gifts was telling me that the glaze of the near black tea cup from the last batch of pictures I had is made from the dirt from Neil Gaiman's backyard.

( Cut for all the pictures of ceramics. )

Working Vacation

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Working Vacation

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Mixed up Too Much Ink

I have this problem. When I grind ink... I like doing it all at once, and I have this cool little jar a friend gave me when he learned that I was practicing calligraphy and he was living in Japan, so he sent me a neat little ceramic thing that you fill by holding it under water and it has a pour spout and a hole in the top and I can put my finger on the hole at the top and just drip drabs of water out. Or I can just leave the hole open and pour.

I poured today, into my deeper ink stone. Mom gave me a beautiful, shallow, tear drop shaped ink stone that has tiny bamboo leaves carved into the stone around the well; however, I also have a very utilitarian rectangular stone that has a very deep well. Mom's stone is good for a single painting at a time. I wanted to do more than one painting, but I went a bit... overboard...

( Cut for the pictures of pictures... and a pine tree that did not fail this time... )

Mixed up Too Much Ink

I have this problem. When I grind ink... I like doing it all at once, and I have this cool little jar a friend gave me when he learned that I was practicing calligraphy and he was living in Japan, so he sent me a neat little ceramic thing that you fill by holding it under water and it has a pour spout and a hole in the top and I can put my finger on the hole at the top and just drip drabs of water out. Or I can just leave the hole open and pour.

I poured today, into my deeper ink stone. Mom gave me a beautiful, shallow, tear drop shaped ink stone that has tiny bamboo leaves carved into the stone around the well; however, I also have a very utilitarian rectangular stone that has a very deep well. Mom's stone is good for a single painting at a time. I wanted to do more than one painting, but I went a bit... overboard...

( Cut for the pictures of pictures... and a pine tree that did not fail this time... )