Encouraged! These tumblers were my first. The colors are so bright and vivid. Glaze was a bit thicker as they glazes were at the bottom of the bucket. Hmmm That tells me something.
Think I'll be making lots more tumblers this weekend.
I finally decided how I want to put the wording on them and the spacing of the words. I also got some great ideas last weekend in Asheville about how to alter the surface design of pieces. Have some great tumbler ideas! Time in Asheville was so inspiring!
Another pic of the tumblers. Hard to figure out how big to make the letters and well, it's more difficult to etch them on the tumblers than bowls- as the surface isn't as flat on tumblers.
Here are the pots before the glaze firing. Didn't like my test tile results much.
These were fired to cone 6, slow speed. Think I'll fire the next batch to cone 5, medium speed as they'll be quite thin and I'll see what happens!
Rich colors. The glaze on the big bowl is a bit thick- so it may end up in the flowerbed to accompany the flowers. It was late; and well, it's hard sometimes to tell the thickness of glaze.
Read the first 75 pages of this in two weeks and then I had to return it to the library. Excellent book! Think I may have to splurge and buy the kindle edition--- which these days is the cheapest.
Hosseini is one of my all time favorite writers.
Thanks for reading... and for your comments.
3 comments:
those tumblers look really nice. Can you tell us more about the glaze you are using?
Too bad you didn't get to finish the book. I read it about 2 months ago and really enjoyed it. I found it quite sad but - some peoples lives are that way. He is a very good writer though.
two glazes in fact. both are celadon recipes I got off the internet for cone 6; forget their names! Am getting ready to try some new transparent blue ones off a recipe I found in pottery illustrated magazine, I think. if you're on the lookout for glazes, try just googling a bit online... there are lots of possibilities!
Yes, I thought they looked a bit like the glazes I have tried. I did a number of color tests on a base that was posted by Tig Dupre. The base is nice and clear with a great color response. So I went ahead and mixed up a 5000 gm batch of aqua and one of cobalt blue. Both very nice over texture. I don't think I will continue using them though because I have noticed that the glaze is quite soft/scratches easily which is unacceptable for my functional work.
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