Time to make a clay run to Vegas. I need to make a few more pieces to fill the kiln and try to rescue these glaze disasters.
First is this neat pot glazed with Mayco Elements Copper Adventurine (cone 06) under Mayco Alabaster (cone 5/6). I applied the copper glaze a little too thick and even though it was a slow glaze firing with a slow ramping down after a seven minute hold at cone 5 I still got a lot of bubbles. I used a rotary tool to grind down the sharp glassy edges of the bubbles. Later I'll fill them with more glaze and try firing the pot with my next bisque firing to cone 04. I'm hoping the glaze will smooth out because I think this is really striking.
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| Bubbles |
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| Grinding the edges |
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| Close up of neat colors in the Copper glaze |
First time I've used these glazes so learning as I go. Here is Alabaster again with Mayco's Sapphire, both cone 5/6 glazes, but clearly they were applied too thin. Guess I'll try a second glazing and hope for the best. I like the size and shape of this.
Here are some mugs decorated with colored slips and glazed a clear matte. I like working with the more predictable slips and consider these OK basic mugs.
Next, misc. things I made for Jason, glazed with Coyote Clay's Oasis on the inside and Opal on the outside. The piece on the left has Copper and Archie's Base under Oasis to emphasize the decoration with Opal on the interior.
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| Water pitcher in Aqua |
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| Small bowls |
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| Glaze tests |
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| Two I like: Archie's Base with Turquoise (left) and with Oasis (right) |
