Altered jar, shigaraki clay, hakame inlay and feldspathic glaze (hiratsu feldspar substitute) glaze trail decoration.
Lee Love

Paddled square tsubo, iron slip inlay, black glaze with kaki glaze trailed decoration.
Lee Love

Nami Jiro glaze with hakame slip underneath.
Lee Love

Black glazed tsubo. The glaze was my standard tenmoku I used back home, just swapping Japanese materials for the American.
Lee Love

Top View. I used a cork I put lines on with a hot glue gun to do the impressions for the inlay.
Lee Love

Tsubo with Irabo Runny Ash Glaze
Lee Love

Top view
Lee Love

Sap's Rising! Spring is here!
Lee Love

Square paddled Tsubo, tenmoku with kaki glaze trailing. The kaki was a little thick, so I am scraping some off so the kaki doesn't run and stick the pot to the kiln shelf.
Lee Love

Glazing.
Lee Love

Brushing on a thin coat of Irabo (runny ash glaze) on the bottom of the pot. Brush streaks don't show up because the glaze is fluid.
Lee Love

Dipping a "regular" coat of Irabo on the top.
Lee Love

Tsukada started at Shimaoka's workshop a couple months after I did. He just finished a 5 year apprenticeship and is having a graduation show.
Lee Love

His graduation show is at Takumi, on the Ginza.
Lee Love

This grove is a block away from our house (three minutes.)
Lee Love

Me, Taiko and Bamboo.
Lee Love

Blooming plum trees.
Lee Love

Rows of covered crops.
Lee Love

Bamboo coming up through farm machinery.
Lee Love

Old Datsun. You rarely see rusting junkers in Japan.
Lee Love

Smaller bamboo. The leaves always have a soft feeling.
Lee Love

"Gourd, Hanging in the Breeze, First it goes one way and then it goes the other" From Kurosawa's Ran (as best as I can remember.)
Lee Love

Nuka pile
Lee Love

Large bamboo cut this winter by a neighbor farmer.
Lee Love

Went slow in the begining, because the plates were not totally dry. Bisque took 6 hours to cone 012 top near door. Everything bisqued fine. I try to go slow up to 600*C. After quartz inversion, I fire faster. from 600*C to cone 012 only takes an hour.
Lee Love

Tsubo and some dish tests. Tsubo were dry but the plates went in damp. So I put them in upside down so the rims wouldn't dry first.
Lee Love

Tsukamoto wants to see some tsubo.
Lee Love