Shelley and Goro in Japan 2011: Shelley's Nagasaki Ceramic works

It has been lots of fun learning new techniques, new glazes and seeing what I can do in a new studio. Here are photos of the work I have done.

This is Tasaki-sensei and his wife Ako with their two French bull dogs, Anko, black, and Kinako, white. They are in front of his studio, Yutoriro, which means relaxed fire.

This is one side of the studio with the Shimpo wheel I ususally used.

This the opposite side of the studio. You can see it is divided into a retail sales section, with a customer, and then you can see into the back room with the sink and kiln.

I am working on the second of the two Shimpo wheels, finishing a large bowl using a lovely black clay he has in the studio.

Another large bowl using the black clay. This was a definite Japanese influence from a bowl I saw in someone's house.

This is a deep ramen bowl for Goro, black clay and one of the blue glazes in the studio that is translucent.

3 inches high x 4 inches wide, lidded jar made from one piece of black clay using blue translucent glaze.

5 " wide rice bowl, black clay, thin glaze of translucent blue

Second try at small lidded, one piece jar. There were carvings on the first one that did not show up. Tasaki-sensei showed me how to make them show up.

This is the bowl I was working on in the picture of me at the wheel. It is black clay with white glaze.

A series of white clay cups using a wonderful kind of wax relief. The wax he uses is not wax, but some chemical that dries instantly and is easy to use. Cobalt blue glaze is painted over wax.