Here are some more of the chabana vases, this time with twisty lugs, like the original Ko-Karatsu vase.

Also, my yunomi have been selling slowly over the past year, and I’d not really made any new ones. Realized you can’t have a show without yunomi… Here they are just thrown and still wet.
They are just very basic cylinders that will be medium and small yunomi. Not very many yet, but it’s a start…

Last are some guinomi that I made the other day with some cool sand mixed into the clay. After pounding some sandstone that I collected near Imari last year, I added A LOT to the clay body and it really got interesting. Rather than becoming short and un-throwable, it kept much of it’s plasticity, and had a very interesting surface when trimmed. I think it retained it’s plasticity because the pounded sandstone has a full range of particle size, from fine dust upward, unlike adding a specific mesh size of grog or sand.

All except one of the feet are carved with dull tools. The one in the middle of the bottom pic wasn’t trimmed, but rather paddled to create a raised ridge to act as a foot. I kind of like this method but think it’s likely to look better with smooth clays. Having a good toothy clay and not abusing it in some way with dull tools seems like a waste of potential ‘gnarliness’. One thing to note: since the cups will be glazed with a heavy white rice straw ash glaze, the comb marks which look so overdone, will be covered up to a great degree. It’s necessary to make fairly strong markings with this glaze, because weaker marks and lines just disappear under the glaze.