The Winter session is quickly coming to an end. As I am writing this, I am collecting my final pieces from bisque firing and getting ready to glaze them. The new session, Spring 2010, will start the week of March 22, 2010.
The pieces above are a series of three conical bowls (bowls with straight sides) that I threw out of B-Clay. B-Clay is sort of greyish when it is soft and pliable but will fire to a white that is almost like porcelain. This si the first time I am using B-Clay and I am liking it quite a bit. I only had two pieces back at the time I took the photo. I glazed the three bowls the same way -- using Luster Shino on the inside and then I taped the outside with painter's tape and cut out the pattern. The lower portion of the bowls are glazed in Coleman Apple Green and the top in the New Celadon.
This is a covered jar made out of Stoneware. It is part 2 of a sugar bowl and cream pitcher ensemble (refer to earlier post). I glazed the pieces with Matt Black and Waxy White in a checker-board pattern. The glazes runs into each other a little so it does not maintain pure coloration but I thought the intermingling is quite cool.
Another bowl with stamp work around the rim. Was going to get this to empty bowl but it did not get fired in time. The glaze is Celadon over the whole piece and Josh Green around the rim. It ran quite a bit and turned RED!!!!!
Another B-Clay bowl for Empty Bowls that did not make it. Yellow Salt with Cohen Red around the rim (other secret stuff that cannot be disclosed at this time). Message me if you really want to know.
One of the biggest plates I've made so far -- about 11" in diameter. I used paper resists that I cut into a snowflake pattern then lay the resist into the plate and the back of the plate as well. I had decided that I was going to glaze this in Celadon and so selected slips that would give me shades of green when glazed in Celadon and painted over the paper resists. I sort of like the outcome and will probably give this a try at a later time when I decide to make plates again.
One of the biggest plates I've made so far -- about 11" in diameter. I used paper resists that I cut into a snowflake pattern then lay the resist into the plate and the back of the plate as well. I had decided that I was going to glaze this in Celadon and so selected slips that would give me shades of green when glazed in Celadon and painted over the paper resists. I like this pattern bette and will probably explore more of this type of pattern. Reminds me of a chrysthemum bloom.
Probably my favorite plate so far. Three shades of white -- Shaner, Waxy and Antique -- and a red square in Cohen Red. Where the Waxy and the Shaner met, the glaze crawled. I thought it really gave the plate a very interesting and unique appeal.
That's it for now. The next posts will probably be the last pieces of the Winter 2010 session. Really looking forward to the Spring 2010 offereings.
