Over To The Dark Side

I've avoided blue my entire pottery career, especially bright cobalt blue, but have come to realize that I quite like some blues.  Here are a few of the blues I'm testing.  The first two and the fourth are the same glaze on different clays.  Attractive but with a tendency to run.  The third and fifth are both another glaze but on different clay and in different parts of the kiln.  The powder blue is leaving me a bit cold.  There will be more tests in the next firing, sometime in September/October.  And yes, blue does sell.

Yunomis

Here are a few yunomis from the last firing.

Classic Temmoku 

Ash Glaze

New Blue Ash Glaze

Navy Blue Ash Glaze

Survivor

I wondered whether putting this tea bowl right at the edge of the firebox was a good idea.  At some point during a stoke it was knocked into the firebox where I found it after unloading, lying on the grates.  Amazingly, after having great hunks of wood tossed onto it, it rings clear!  Not a crack.  Now I have a new matcha bowl!

At Last - March firing in May!

Illness delayed the firing but here are the pots, at last.

Yellow ash glaze over white slip on iron rich clay.

 Shino glaze over white slip on iron rich clay.

Baker with slip and ash glaze on dark clay.

Yellow ash glaze with Indian fabric stamps.

New satin glaze.

Blue Ash glaze on white stoneware.

Pots in Progress

The March firing is slowly coming together.  Here are a few pots in progress.  High iron clay with thick white slip.  They'll mostly be glazed with a yellow ash glaze.

Tea Bowls

I was asked by a customer for photos of tea bowls, little pot portraits, so thought I'd share them here.

At Last!

The fire ban was finally lifted on the 23rd of September and we fired on the 24th!

Here are a few pieces from that firing.  Next one will be in about 3 weeks.

Ash glazed bowl with my sister's peppers.

Ash glazed bowl with rope texture and slip.

Ash glazed vase.

Unomi with ash glaze over slip.

Shino over thick slip.