Pots from the November 17th Firing

Here are a few pots from the last firing.  I apologize for the quality of the photos - the new camera is much better but I definitely need a light box to photograph these shiny glazes and eliminate the glare.  Setting up a photography corner will be a priority project for January.  So again, most of the temmokus were leaning towards purple except at the back and there were several runs.   Even though I'm beginning to appreciate the purple/green/black thing, I now understand why they're coming out like that and will fire to correct it next time.  Even though we weren't getting what looked like obvious reduction (no heavy black smoke, no back pressure) we were getting quite a bit of reduction which is what causes temmokus to run and to lean towards the purple.

Tea dust cookie jar with ash on the front.

Tea dust 3 litre jug with ash and a salt flash.

12 inch temmoku jug

Small jar (about 3 inches high)

Olive bowl in tea dust gone purple.

Tea dust again.

Teadust as it should look, with a bit of salt at the top.

Red shino bowls with some residual salt.

My favourite side plate (red shino, some salt).

Shino cookie jar.

Tea dust with ash.

This is Hamada Rust gone purple with chartreuse ash streaks.

Hamada Rust (purple version) with ash.