Fired Twice

A selection of pots from the last two firings.

The tenmoku I had to fire t twice as the gas ran out just as I started to reduce at about 1120c. I wonder if it has effected the glaze?

The green is a new recipe, quite runny and appears to be a lower firing glaze, very pretty. The greenie blue glaze is a PCA recipe based around cornish stone, it makes a very good lining glaze which I will use on the teapots.

I worked on my reduction technique, which I think is improving, longer, deeper, bolder.

Happy potting, I think I’m making progress.

I Spent the Last Two Nights Glazing

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I have over two terms worth of work that I glazed on Tuesday and Wednesday evening. Looking at it on the shelves I have forgotten making some of it and would question now why I put it through the system. Still, that’s the way it has been since September.

I have used the spay gun to create mixed surfaces with the glaze blending tenmoku and celadon over each other. With luck and the alchemy of the gas kiln the two colours should interact effectively. I have used some of Jack’s ash glaze as a base on some of the larger pieces, with a dusting of tenmoku on top. The matt of the ash and the high gloss of the tenmoku should interact and create  interesting surfaces.

From now on I will try to make, consider and recycle, I have to produce lighter pots with more refined forms and experiment with surface texture and glaze decoration. I have one small piece by James Hake, a good potter to look at for all these elements

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Back to College – Advanced Throwing a Pot

Back to college and throwing pots on Thursday evenings this term. When I sat down on a wonkying wheel and started throwing I realised how much I had learnt during the summer. The basics have improved significantly, centring and coning, I had a really good go at both making the teapot spouts. The wheel I used was very uncomfortable to sit on and rocked slightly because the floor was uneven. I will have to arrive in time to get onto my old friend from last term. The pots I sprayed with glaze are some of Jack’s out put from his week with us in the summer with one or two of my pieces. I used EC 167 matt white as a base layer and dusted EC 452 over them quite thinly. It will be very interesting to see how the iron content of the Tenmoku reacts with the white matt. Glad to be back being creative, going back to work sucks the energy out of me and make regular creativity much harder. I took in two large bowls for bisque firing, hope they come out next week as I can’t wait to try some of the glaze patterning I saw on Mark Griffiths’s work during the summer. Great fun!