The Process of making porcelain vessels has many steps and takes time!! The porcelain clay is wedged (a compression process that removes air), made into slabs or thrown on a potters wheel. As the wet pieces dry and become leather hard they are trimmed, altered or assembled with attached hand built and/or wheel thrown parts. All of the parts dry slowly on plaster bats wrapped in plastic to ensure they dry evenly and avoid cracking or coming apart once assembled. Porcelain does not like to dry fast or it will crack!

When a piece is fully assembled it will continue to slowly dry for a week and the decoration process may be partially started. When fully dry, it will be bisqued (kiln fired at ^06 1800 degrees). After this first initial firing, I continue drawing and painting on the pieces with underglazes, stains, decals and inclusion pigments before the final glazes are applied and the Kiln is loaded once again and fired to ^6 (2300 degrees).

It takes me 6 to 8 weeks for me to make enough work to fill the kiln and complete the assembling, decorating, glazing and kiln firing process. After many weeks of work - finally, the fired vessels of functional porcelain are revealed!