Tina Tan, TTFunctional Ceramics

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Colorado potter. Also into food, skiing, biking, hiking, rafting to help keep sane. And cats. 🐈‍⬛ http://TTFunctionalCeramics.etsy.com

Close up of a blue bowl that has round cut outs in various sizes at the rim, creating disparate patterns that allow light to go through and make interesting shadows.
Red tail hawk with a rabbit catch, landing on our fence.
WIP: teapot with matching tea mug. Matching infuser and drip plate next to the tea mug. Freshly trimmed and drying.
Three round raku white crackle vases with a green rim. The crackles are varied in size, with some dark black spots that are actually micro crackles in the glaze.
Teal green shallow bowl with holes cut out on three sides. Black brush strokes on the inside with red/yellow dot accents on the inside for an abstract aesthetic.
Mugs with matching tea strainers sit on a drip plate. A hand holds a blue mug above matching tea strainer on a matching drip plate. Mugs and strainers are partially glazed with scalloped edges on the mugs, in blue, green and brown.
A wheel thrown bottle with a hole right through it below the neck. Slip decorated with some red splatters and white slip. Bone dry piece
A hand holding a small berry bowl to show the inside and the drainage hole patterns in clusters of three. A matching drip plate sits below it. Glazed in a rich ocean blue.
Landscape photo green hills in the background and a wide blue sky with pillowy clouds stretching to the horizon.
Hand holding a sage green fluted mug with a brown drippy rim. A Matching tea infuser sits in the mug, steeping some loose leaf tea. The mug has a matching drip plate it sits on.
A hand holding a blue mug above a matching tea infuser on a drip plate. Two other mugs are to the left; the middle one glazed in a sage green, the other in a Teadust tenmoku. All Mugs are partially glazed with a scalloped edge at the bottom. the tea infusers sit at an angle on the green and Teadust mugs, also partially glazed at the top. The drainage holes are in a triangular pattern.
Blue decorative bowl with holes of different sizes punched through at the rim on 4 sides. Abstract pattern of black brush lines and red and yellow accent dots in the center.
3 glazed but not yet fired bowls. They are all glazed the same, with a darker rim over a red brown glaze (which should turn blue after firing) with black brush strokes and red and yellow dots for accents.
Close up of crackles on a white crackle raku fired vase with some darker lines over lighter colored crackles. It makes me think of spider webs, although others have described it as a map (of Paris)!
Top down side view of a tea mug with an infuser sitting on the rim. You can see the tea leaves seeping. Glazed in a tenmoku Teadust, a dark brown black tenmoku with gold speckles. A spoon sits next to the mug.
A round vase with a green rim. This was raku fired with a white crackle glaze then put into a smoky can. The smoke seeped into the crackles giving a fine cobweb network of black crackles over the white glaze.
Thick Smoke swirling around a raku pot fresh out of the kiln. It has some smudges from the horse hair applied to it. Sitting on a black metal can, the pot is white, a lovely contrast amid all the smoke.
Some raspberries in a deep ocean blue berry bowl, lending a sweet contrast with the reds and blues. The handle has a braided texture.
A handmade teapot, before and after. Glazed in tenmoku, the teapot is rotating on a banding wheel. The last video bit shows it being used to pour into a cup - no drips!
Close up of a handle on a deep blue mixing bowl. the handle has textures and a braided look, and the blue glaze broke brown where it was thinner.
A sake set - bottle with 5 cups around it. The bottle has some curvy texture from applied slip. Glazed in an earthy jade green glaze with a tenmoku tin with some gorgeous feathering.
4 cups and 4 fluted bowls in front of them. All glazed with black brush strokes and red dot splatters waiting to be loaded and fired.
A hand holding a berry bowl with patterns in clusters of three and a drip plate sits below it, with a couple of strawberries next to It. Glazed in a seafoam green.
A hand pouring sake into a sake cup, with 3 other cups next to it and a sake warmer behind it. Made with a dark chocolate clay, the Teadust tenmoku glaze has lovely gold speckles, contrasting nicely with the dark clay, like a starry dark night sky.
A sake set on a Table. The bottle ha fluted sides as do the sake cup, with sake reflected from the cups. Glazed in a pretty Teadust tenmoku with ok speckles that shimmers in the bottom of the cup and sides of the bottle.
Round wood fired porcelain vase with a narrow neck. Exterior was left raw, except for a few swirls of red underglaze. The atmospheric firing left some ash deposits on the pot and an interesting little spot right in the middle, leaving a wabi sabi blend of white/browns colorations.
3 small cups sit in a row with a hand holding a 4th above it, glazed in a pretty blue teal glaze on the inside. The exterior of the cups have a ribbed twisted texture in an earthy ochre color, decorated with black brushstrokes and red dot accents.
Two bowls stacked and one upside down. Layered with two glazed, giving a green base with a blue purplish runny rim. Black brush strokes decorate the inside and exterior, with some red dot accents.
A round butter bell, with a carved fluted lid. The handle has a nice braided texture. Glazed in a deep sage green with red dot accents.
Small round raku fired pot with a white crackle glaze and a green rim on a wood table next to a Pine cone for scale and some small flower stems in front of it.
Small round vase with a short narrow neck. Wood fired porcelain, which got some slight orange/ greys from the wood ash in the kiln. A streak of red splash goes across the bottom.
4 mixing bowls, works in progress, with their spouts pointing in the middle. They have textured braided handles.
A video showing a berry bowl I made, with a pattern of three dot clusters, textured handles and drain plate. Glazed in an ocean blue glaze. It also shows the page in Midwest Homes magazine that mentioned my berry bowls.
A hand pouring sake from a sake bottle into a sake cup. 3 other cups are next to it with a sake warmer behind it. These are glazed in a tenmoku Teadust glaze, a deep dark glaze with gold speckles. The cups and bottle are partially glazed to contrast with the dark textured raw clay.
A green coffee or tea mug, glazed in a moss green glaze with a brown glaze that feathers down in drips on the rim. The lower portion of the mug has rippled fluted sides.
Video of throwing a bowl, followed by 4 bowls glazed with brush strokes on the inside. Ending with a video of the finished soda fired bowl, which has a teal interior with blue drips coming down, like a tide coming in. The inside has black brush strokes with red dot accents.
A hand holding a soda fired cup with no handles, full of coffees the tin has two glaze layers that ran, creating a drippy effect. Black brush strokes adorn the sides, with red dot accents.
Sign “fire the liar” at the protest at NOAA today
Two ceramic oil dispensers, one with a ribbed texture, the other smooth. With 2 glazes layered at the rim, it transitions from an ocean blue to gray green. Brush splatters with red accent adorn the front. Each oil dispenser has a thumb rest for a firmer grip. A wabi sabi aesthetic
A hand holding a dimple cup above 3 other similarly soda fired cups. Each has a thumb indent, and two layers of glazes, (green/blue) causing some drips. Decorated with black splatters and red dot accents.
Small round moon vase like pot, raku fired with a white crackle glaze and an emerald green rim. Lots of small crackles on this pot, just how I like it.
A set of 4 pasta bowls in one stack, with fluted ribbed sides on a table. Glazed in a sage green glaze with black brush splatters and red dot accents.
A wood fired ceramic bottle. This was side fired, resulting in the wood ash collecting on the side, which melted and dripped down the sides. When upright, the drips look like they’re flowing horizontally. This has earthy tones with a greenish neck.