
High-fire porcelain teapot. Original design, hand-built, and painted with a dimpled surface texture.
High-fire porcelain teapot. Original design, hand-built, and painted with a dimpled surface texture.
Hanging sculpture: Porcelain. Original design, Handmade and painted, high fired. 11.5″H x 5.5W x 1.5″D
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
High fire porcelain flagon (wine pitcher). Slab-made, hand carved.
Another “conceptual” teapot which has no functionality.
Story Mask 2.
Three-dimensional mask, My design, hand made and painted. High-fire porcelain. 10″H x 8W x 5D (25.5cm x 7.9 x 12.7)
A collection of my porcelain and wood sculptural objects. Published by Ben Clarone Books. Available from Blurb.com
ClayandWoodPorcelain painted self-portrait mask. All hand made, designed and painted by D.R. Harris
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.