High-fire porcelain teapot. Original design, hand-built, and painted with a dimpled surface texture.
Gryphon Porcelain Teapot
Category: Sculpture
From The Deep: Hydroctopus
Hanging sculpture: Porcelain. Original design, Handmade and painted, high fired. 11.5″H x 5.5W x 1.5″D
Swimming Dragon
A painted porcelain sculpture, meant to be hung on a wall. Designed, handmade and painted from drawings and color scheme sketches. 14Wx9Hx2″D
Source painting for Swimming Dragon and From the Deep
Fully Fired Flagon
Porcelain Teapot
Another “conceptual” teapot which has no functionality.
The Cry
The Cry is my first bronze cast sculpture. The very talented artists at Bronzarts in Sarasota, Florida managed to capture 99% of the detail in this very complex piece. Stevan Kuyper was the mold maker and Wayne Dyer did the cleaning, welding and detail work after the pour. They both were excellent to work with and are very knowledgable and informative about the whole process. The Cry is a bronze version of my wood sculpture The Cry. The bronze version is 8″ (20cm) tall, 11″ (28cm) with the granite base. I am currently seeking funding for a 6-foot version and buyers for the smaller version. The mold can support an edition of 20.
Clay and Wood
A collection of my porcelain and wood sculptural objects. Published by Ben Clarone Books. Available from Blurb.com
ClayandWoodMask as Self Portrait
Porcelain painted self-portrait mask. All hand made, designed and painted by D.R. Harris
Recent Ceramic Piece
Porcelain Sculptural Teapot. Sculpture and dress design original. Handmade using slab technique. Painted using custom mixed Coyote underglazes, sequins are “dots” of slip. Two firings at cone 11. Signed on the sole of her shoe. 15″ tall.
Bouteille de Parfum: Redux
After Ki Woon Huh, my Korean master ceramics teacher accidentally broke my laboriously constructed and painted piece, Bouteille de Parfum, he made a copy from my drawings. My version was slab made, Ki Woon used the wheel and expertly bent the clay into the complex shape. The result was a much lighter piece which has been drying for five months in the studio.
After I finished painting Kneeling Woman, he asked me to decorate the new Bouteille de Parfum. Because the porcelain was so dry, it was not possible to make a wet transfer from a cartoon drawn on calque, I had to draw the cartoon freehand directly on the clay with a pencil. The drawings are different than the first version and are derived from newer pen, ink & wash drawings from my Night Book series. Below are the four views of the new Bouteille de Parfum with the cartoon drawn on the clay. The piece is a little smaller than the original. It is ~12″ wide and 16″ tall.
Here is the piece painted. It still needs a bisque firing and then a firing with the over glaze.
