Shellac etched bisqueware ready for glazing.
Painted shellac designs before etching.
A shellac etched maple leaf design.
A glowing red hot kiln.
A glowing red hot kiln.
An assortment of drink ware in green ware stage.
Shellac etched porcelain designs.
Shellac etched fern design.
Shellac etched bisqueware ready for glaze.
Conrad Calimpong's anagama wood kiln, showing fired wares.
Tea set in greenware stage.
Bisque fired pipe bowls and groggy tumblers.
Green ware mugs and tumblers.
Gas kilns at Fire Arts Center in early stages of firing.
Blackbird, a gas kiln at Fire Arts Center in Arcata, CA
A shellac etched hawk tumbler in greenware stage.
Shellac etched forest ridge and cloud plate in greenware stage.
Detail of a shellac etched design, porcelain slip on iron red clay.
Conrad Calimpong's anagama wood kiln, stacked with pots and ready to fire in Ferndale, CA.
Conrad Calimpong's anagama wood kiln, loaded with pots before firing.
Fun slip textures on pipe bowls.
A home studio I pieced together at Leaping Slug Farm in Bayside, CA.
The firing crew at Conrad Calimpong's place in Ferndale, CA.
The first firing of my shared salt/soda kiln with Susan Beecher in Blue Lake, CA.
The first firing of my shared salt kiln with Susan Beecher in Blue Lake, CA.
The floor of my shared salt/soda kiln with Susan Beecher, showing the flashing marks created after the first firing.
A river cobble mug after being salt fired.
Pulled handles getting ready to be attached to mugs.
Pipe bowls ready for wood firing, shown here on special clay called wadding, which keeps the wood ash from sticking the pipes to the kiln shelves.
Pots awaiting loading into a wood kiln.
A mountain range shellac etched mug, glazed and ready for wood firing.
Pots loaded in a wood kiln and ready for firing.
Thomas Fossier's wood kiln in Mckinleyville, CA.
Pots in Thomas Fossier's wood kiln after firing.
A wood fired fern mug peaking out from the kiln furniture.
The inside of a wood fired honey celadon glazed mug.
A wood fired crackle slipped bottle surface.
The inside of a wood fired honey celadon glazed mug.
Faceted gem cups and shellac etched pipe bowls ready for bisque firing.
Shellac etched hawk design.
A faceted gem cup being glazed. Showing the moisture coming through the varied thickness of the bisqued cup.
Pipe Bowls made in collaboration with Hawaii Pipefarm.
A black underglazed forest ridge design awaiting a coat of glaze.
A glazed mug showing the forest ridge underglaze design faintly coming through.
Decorating a large vase with topographic carvings.
A topographic carved vase with an early painting of mine in background.
Topographic carved vases drying in the sun.
A wax resist salmon glaze design.
A wax resist fern glaze design.
A fern wax resist glaze design on a cute handled mug.
Wave carved tumblers inspired by Matt Beard paintings.
Alder leaf shellac etched tumblers.
'Nautilus' shellac etched tumbler designs.
Wave tumblers inspired by Matt Beard paintings.
shellac mountain range and alder leaf flasks.
Maple leaf shellac etched tumblers.
Shellac etched maple leaf tumblers.
Planning out how to load a shelf in the soda kiln at Humboldt State University.