Posts Tagged ‘cup’

Love in 2009/愛在2009

Monday, January 12th, 2009

最近實在太冷了,我卻仍然忙得馬不停蹄。
馬上要離開上海、去福建幾天、然後囘臺灣過年;
這套2009年度的情人節對杯,現在先推出。

我每年會做出一套情人對杯,每組的數量則要看燒窯的成功率來決定。

今年這套,是豹紋組合,靈感來自于一次在07年春末和女友S的對話。

這組杯子的外頭和盤子,使用的是黑色無光’熔岩‘肌理釉葯,對溫度要求相對敏感,杯上的肌理不明顯,盤子的邊緣處比較充分表現。

杯子的裏面分別是金橘/黑,和金棕/白的組合雙層豹紋釉;
施釉需分多次多道手續,對坯體和釉水結合度的要求高。
釉葯内含多種貴金屬,成效令人滿意。

和從前一樣,分別有小杯(125ml)帶托盤的四件套,另有大杯(300ml)的兩件套。
兩件套因杯身較高,杯底的氣氛不足,裏釉不易表現,成套數相對少。

製作的過程和故事本應娓娓而道,但S已經特別交代故事對話不可聲張,而我也忙得腦袋打結,所以不多說。

請各位看圖識物,並預祝大家有個美好的情人節。

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I make couple(pair) cup set each year to celebrate Valentine’s Day with you. This year its the ‘Leopard Love’.

Its a perfect gift to express your love with passion, or, to reheat it!!

This couple cup set is included 2 cups and 2 saucers <4 pcs in total.>
approx. 125ml each cup

They are wheel thrown and fired with special color glazes. I have done more than 30 time-trials to get this glaze recipe and I am pretty happy with the result.

outside and on the plate : mat black glaze with ‘lava’ style texture. Especially on the rim of the plate, the irregular lava texture has shown more.

inside of the cups: ‘Leopard pattern’ (orange/black tone)(golden white/brown tone) The glaze has included some noble metals, and I think its worthy. :)

* Lead free.
* Microwave & wash-machine safe.
* Please don’t use on the oven top.

Amoeba~

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

A girlfriend claimed that she just couldn’t appreciate the under-glazing (釉下彩) or high fire color glazing(高溫顔色釉) ceramics.

‘Why don’t you play with some colors, patterns or over-glazing (釉上彩) decoration?’ she asked.
‘Because its very simple, stable, and not much challenge of crafting.’ I said.

Yet one day I was done drawing on a major project (which has been failed for n times.) and wandering around with my pen & sketchbook… It came to me that maybe simple color, pattern, or over-glazing are a lack of craftsmanship; but craftsmanship is not necessary the only thing to create sweet objects or having fun.

So here goes the pattern.
high fire (1320C) for mat white glaze;
2nd fire 800C for the colors.

I only made few pieces for fun.
And it’s a great pleasure to share some creating processes with you :)

the Eve; the Cups

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008

angel sketch

由於突發的事件們,這周的確非常不可開交;

所有該寄的信件和禮物幾乎都拖遲,而且看來還得等到聖誕過後;有幾個約會一延再延,簡直不知怎麽辦;每日早晨八點多開始電話不斷,還是有沒聯係上缺漏的……晚上是平安夜,我希望能夠在傍晚前處理好今天的事,然後回家準備晚餐。

這幾年都是這樣的,在家裏,平安的,平靜的,和弟弟,或者再有弟弟的朋友一起吃飯説說話。今晚仍準備如此。其實和其他的夜晚並沒有太大的不同,只是周遭的人事難免有些變化。

昨天是聽到好消息的一天,這令人非常振奮。
好友遇見的挑戰變成人生正面的轉折、並且快速的從低潮中恢復;一個久違的友人E溫暖的出現;Y的新生意蒸蒸日上,在投資環境如此低潮的情況下逆勢而上;一對朋友破鏡重圓。

一日之内聽到那麽多好消息,感受到巨大的正面能量。

我們期待事情都能逐漸好轉,或者起碼以正面的態度去面對每件事,然後事情就能好轉。這些時刻,幾乎連看到everything’s going to be all right的標語, 都會比往常開心。而朋友們也都能更深刻的體會平安是如此重要,平靜的生活是如此可貴。
我覺得這樣很好。

Here is something I’d like to share with you.
I looked up flickr to find the daily objects of people’s life and currently the object is ‘cup’.

Great thanks to the inventing of digital camera and the internet, its really interesting to learn other’s life by just looking at the pictures they take.

As for the cups I collected in my favorite, most of them were tagged as’ my cup’, then ‘my favorite cup’ comes next, and the rest of them are tagged as’ morning cup/coffee’ or ‘my cup of tea’.

By just looking at these pictures, I could easily feel inspired and cheering, how about you?

Have a nice Christmas Eve.
XOXO

Click here to check what cup are people using (in detail)~!
(the picture loading is slowing down the page opening, so, really, please check there to see more :) thank you! )

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