Went to see The Revolution Continues: New Chinese Art at The Saatchi Gallery in the King's Rd yesterday. 
My mother in law showed me a kitsch plastic lady (on a desktop pen holder) that she liked. I made this as a result but she wasn't impressed.
So I made the following 5 min sketch of her object to appease her!
This was made inside the previous bowl (Inspired by #3), but this time with the newspaper packed around the outside with the inside smoothed. It will be an inverse of the first bowl.
More masks for the mask collection!
This piece was made by smoothing a thin layer of fresh clay over an inverted mixing bowl which I had covered in scrunched up paper to allow the drying clay to move when shrinking, preventing cracks. 
I wanted to make a smooth rounded shape reminiscent of Christine's curves. I suppose that this could be a large buttock but I will leave the analysis to the viewer.
The red glaze is a simple paint job while the inside cabbage effect glaze in blue, green and white was done by diluting the glazes with water, mixing azures, greens, reds and sand colour and then allowing the watery glaze to drip around the contours of the bowl. I would allow some glaze to run in from the lip of the bowl, then pick it and rotate it in the air to get the colours into different nooks and crannies. I am quite pleased with the effect and it has given me further ideas for more works made in a similar way.
This delicate piece unfortunately broke in two places on firing. I was probably pushing the clay to its limits with this structure but will be able to repair by gluing it. This is inspired by the left breast and abdomen of the model as she lay on her side. The whole piece also evokes for me the lying whole woman.
