new and blue

  




Love this pattern and texture, I'm gonna have to put it on all kinds of pieces....

This is a great big mug, I double dipped it in blue and rutile glaze.

Love it so much, I almost kept it.

 exposed rim bowl

                 i love texture.

i don't like how this photographed. the colours are much earthier in person.


below, the rays wrap around.

               inside, of course.

another batch of goodies

Now if I could only make this bigger....

This bowl is porcelain, it came out this cheery yellow using the same glaze as the bowl below...

Landon polished this with the back of a spoon when it was bone-hard; this is called Burnishing. It went all shiny and smooth, and then after firing it became rough again. A neat effect to play with. I love that the bubbles that were underglazed blue, stayed blue, even after being polished.

This is one of my crazy fairy-houses/oil diffusers... they didn't photograph as nicely as I would have liked....the top is a maple leaf.

This is a very big piece I've started... So big, it will just barely fit in the kiln! Can you tell I'm kind of excited about it?? .... more to come if it survives the drying process.... and first firing....

More Cool Stuff!

This is only my second load of finished ware out of the kiln. I feel like I am learning so much about what does and doesn't work.... and needing to keep a record of it for myself.... so here are some of the pics, and some of my personal notes about things...

I'm really happy with how this looks kinda like Raku, without being Raku. It is layers and layers of underglaze, and a clear glaze brushed on over top.

 I'm having fun experimenting with using one kind of glaze for the inside and another for the outside...

 Honey inspired vase...

This is just a silly little vase that I was using as a tester for making my own glaze. I underglazed with a slip that I harvested from a local lake, and added wood ash that was left over from a beach fire.... all crushed up and mixed up. After just the first firing it didn't look much different, and I can't remember if I dipped this in a clear glaze or a green one.... but the second firing seemed to have made the ash show up; it's the darker burnt looking bits.
I'm definitely going to have to play with that some more.

 I brushed clear glaze over a black underglaze on the outside of this. It makes the shine patchy.

The inside of this bowl is layers and layers of various underglazes as well; coated with clear glaze. It is a deeper purple than what is showing in the picture; I think including some black in the underglaze gives the colour some depth.


I'm curious, what do you like and not like? What works?

my first batch of glazed ware!!

Not bad for my first go... I would like for the lid on this to fit better.
It's cool to see the way the different glazes layered on top of each other settled into the texture.

This is probably the nicest bowl I've made yet. I love it's roundness; and unlike my first 25 bowls, this one doesn't weigh a hundred pounds! Hahaha!

I have to keep this bowl because Oakley decorated the inside of it. He used a ton of under glazes on it, and then we put the green on top. So Cool!

I had some fun with texture. I love holding a warm mug with some texture!

This is the back of the same mug....

This was a surprise for me. The clear glaze was SO chunky going on, and I was told it didn't look good over this color of clay.... I really didn't know what to expect.

More fun with texture!
The other nice surprise, was that the clay turned a nice deep red! It started out chocolate brown, and I was shocked when it turned Orange after the bisque fire, (and not in a good way). Phew! Now it's beautiful!

Hope you enjoyed checking out some pics from my first batch!