It's Been A Long, Long While

It's been a long, long while.
For starters, that's a good line of a Peter Mayer song.
I've been away from the blog world for awhile.
Recently, I've moved; I've continued to adjust to new work, and... well, that's enough.
Oh, and just tonight, my new modem was installed. That is a story in itself.
Also had to take a few weeks away from the studio inbetween classes. That was hard.
I'm finally back and classes have begun. I also had a birthday recently, and on my birthday, I glazed these pieces that came out of the kiln just this past Saturday.
I like the new designs I'm using. I was really surprised at the lack of reduction on several of the pieces. All have spotted shino glaze as a base with some wax resist and some alfred's blue glaze and a bit of soda ash and granulated rutile.

On the bowl on the left, you can see a spot of soda ash. Very little reduction on the yunomi cup.

These two are my favorites. I like how the rim of the small bowl on the right has a bit of white at the top, caused by thicker spotted shino. Maybe I'm onto something here! :)

Here is the same yunomi in the third picture. I just liked the picture.

Also participated in a raku firing this past Sunday. My next post will tell a bit about that.

It's so good to be back playing in the clay!