Start of a set of Dishes

So the request was for a set of dishes. Blue glaze... so I am using Bmix ^6 which is white.  Not sure to what degree the iron oxide design will show up, it might be pretty damn subtle. IDK.
Here you can see them wet, and then with the iron oxide. They still need to dry to leather hard and get trimmed.

Larger Plates, 3#

Smaller "lunch" plates 2#

You may need to zoom in on the pix to see the edges of the plates. The plates have some depth to them, they are not flat.  I really like this form for plates. It is practical for food that has some level of liquid to it even up to pasta sauce. And I really like the look of a flat protruding rim. It makes it look more like a traditional plate than the form that has an edge similar to a bowl.

Missing pots from the Last Glaze Fire

Ok so I knew I was missing the small bowl. I used this and two others to test what darker clay effects you get with Fuzzy White, Egg Shell or Clear.





But this larger bowl, I totally forgot about until I found it today.  But... not sure what the hell I put inside the bowl.  I think it was Blue Fur, which is the blue glaze I use. I had it out during that glazing session and didn't really do any other colors but the Wine Red... not sure what created this effect though... it's actually kind of matte as well. I really like this one.

Last of the Eggshell on Black

This is a simple plate with high edges. It was a one off. I was exploring a shape in this. I do like it and think it would be a nice set of plates.

This is a decent size bowl, 3# when wet.  I really like the alterations. I wish I had taken better pictures. I think I am putting this in the gallery.

These are small nut bowls., real simple and small.

Not My Usual

Here is an odd bowl. It is off in it's shape but I liked it so I kept it. I did it in clear with some underglaze. So you can see the mix of clay very clearly and you can see some actually color and painting... not at all like my usual work in that regard.

This is a set of cups. I do not recall if the pix survived but I posted these when I first made them. Here they are glazed. This is an extruded work. They are small, it is hard to see scale in this picture but think espresso demitasse cups not coffee mugs. They are for cafe cubano.

Finally here is a bottle. Not a great pic. But it is not cut off, that is the upper edge of the bottle. Again extruded. So not my normal work.

Storage Jars

Mother's Day

So below is one of my favorite pots I have ever made. I like the form, the balance. I so wish I could recreate this on demand. You see it below as greenware, bisque ware, glazed but not fired and finally fired. This is my mother's day gift.

Problems all around...

So the pug mill is not up yet. We are going to need to pour some concrete so I can have it up high enough to use. The table we have in the studio is way too unstable. So in the meantime all I have to throw is a bit of old B-mix.  It is hard... I threw some anyway. 

Now that plate was the only thing I could make. Other tries were such fails I gave up. But I had a great plate.  I let it dry slowly. I then wrapped the edges to help slow this down.  Then I went to go visit the plate two days later.

Here you can see my plate, cracked. And this is not an S-Crack so it is due to drying.  Possibly made worse by the temp and humidity shifts were experienced but really I should have taken it home where I could have watched it more carefully... Dumb..

On to the last firing.  The glaze load included all of my pieces that were glazed. I waxed things so I could fire with lids on because they fit. One exception I fired with glaze on it so I could add a bit of thickness to it so i could fit better.  What you see below is a storage jar that is now sitting on my front porch.  It was glaze sealed on....

This lid was the exception. It had glaze on it in such a way that it could not fire on the jar. So when it came out there happened to be a bit of kiln wash stuck to it. I was taking it over to the roter and... dropped it... ta da look at my lid. I really like what the glaze did on this lid and the above jar... sad...