Petrified

Excellent. Perfectly simple, yet eye-catching. The porcelain on the outside looks so smooth I want to touch it from my computer screen. The rings at the bottom of this and some of your other pieces add a unique touch to an otherwise plain cup. (Not to say that your work is plain, just the shape of cups in general). Two slightly critical comments: The drawn lines are very, very intriguing and provide a good visual contrast to the bottom, but it has the appearance of a pencil. It creates a texture over the raw clay, which you could use to your advantage in future pieces (Maybe something sketchy?). With this though it doesn't help because your lines are so perfect and clean that the texture takes away from it if you look close. Perhaps if you vary the thickness of the lines it would be less noticeable and more eye-catching. My last comment; the rings stop almost exactly in the center. If they took up about 2/3 of the cup or 1/3 it would be even greater. The rule of thirds I think applies as much to ceramics as it does to photography and other art forms.