fresh from the kiln
I got these items back from firing at the same time, as I recall. Left to right, they are:
The bowl suffered from my own inattentiveness. I had great hopes for it and visited my kiln-connection friend's studio to glaze it; I lacked time to complete the glazing job (not surprising, as it takes me about three times as long as most people to do most things!), and asked her to finish the job for me.
I had glazed the inside of the bowl in Laguna's cone 5 Jade. I asked her to glaze the outside in Laguna's Oasis Blue, a wonderfully unpredictable glaze that comes out in blues or greens for no reasons I can yet discern. She later admitted that she had put on too much glaze and it slumped down onto the kiln shelf. I spend a bit of time grinding off the glaze with a Dremel bit, but it was taking so long that I finally gave up. In this pre-grinding image you can still see some of the white kilnwash on the glaze slump at the bottom.
- An experiment with PMC that didn't quite turn out as planned (Laguna cone 10 clay body, gloss black glaze)
- the vase seen in the July 7 post, with its uneven Green Tweed glazing
- the small B-mix creamer from the June 24 post, glazed in Robin's Egg
- the B-mix bowl for my brother from that same June 24 post
The bowl suffered from my own inattentiveness. I had great hopes for it and visited my kiln-connection friend's studio to glaze it; I lacked time to complete the glazing job (not surprising, as it takes me about three times as long as most people to do most things!), and asked her to finish the job for me.
I had glazed the inside of the bowl in Laguna's cone 5 Jade. I asked her to glaze the outside in Laguna's Oasis Blue, a wonderfully unpredictable glaze that comes out in blues or greens for no reasons I can yet discern. She later admitted that she had put on too much glaze and it slumped down onto the kiln shelf. I spend a bit of time grinding off the glaze with a Dremel bit, but it was taking so long that I finally gave up. In this pre-grinding image you can still see some of the white kilnwash on the glaze slump at the bottom.
