Assignment One: The Meal

I was inspired by Peter Biddulph use of an iron and cobolt tenmoku glaze and his unique slightly triangular shapes. I love the way the glazes make this beautiful black color that is very clean and classic. I was also inspired by Eva Kwong for her use of carved slip glazing. I found her plates so interesting and would really like to experiment with something similar in my pieces. Lastly, I was inspired by Deborah Schwartzkopf and her triangular plates and odd shaped bowls.

My meal is a sushi dinner, consisting of a ginger salad, a sushi roll, mochi ice cream, and sake. I intend to make salad bowls, dinner plates, soy sauce trays, a dessert tray/bowl, sake cups with a sake jar a tray for the sake set and probably a rice bowl. I want the dinner set to kind of be a modern but still inspired by traditional Japanese dining sets. I am still in the process of figuring out exactly what I am going to do for certain aspects of the project, but I think I have some good ideas, I can't wait to discuss them to see what advice I can get from others.

Peter Biddulph

 Eva Kwong

 Deborah Schwartzkopf

Here are some of my horrible sketches...