A few weeks ago I blogged about some
new glazes that I had been mixing up and trying out. After a fairly successful firing last week these were retrieved from the kiln.As you can see they are very different from the
original colours.
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| The ones marked with the stars above will are the ones I like and the ones I think suit my work best, so I will buy larger quantities of these glazes. |
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| I used one of the glazes on this soap dish (110 Autumn Tones) Its quite an attractive bluey grey with coppery tones, so it will be added to my glaze collection. |
I'm not a potter, but one of the things I find exciting about this is that you relinquish control over the piece at the point of firing it - daunting and thrilling in equal measure, I should imagine...
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely, yes you have no control over what happens in that kiln apart from the process of firing that is. (Certainly not for control freaks) Personally I love the element of accidental surprise and think that's why I am drawn to this type of craft, it certainly keeps it interesting.Daunting too in a way, but you have to be philosophical about it and if it does go wrong you can re-fire it if it is a glaze problem and re-make if it explodes as frustrating as this may be.
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