Neriage Ware and Another Firing

 

The key to this technique is either taking two pieces of different color clay without wedging together then throwing, or cutting into squares, assembling and throwing together, then cutting with a tool when leather hard. 

Im a little tea pot

 Glaze dripped on many pieces in my last firing but this little teapot turned out nice. And doesn't dribble at all! 

April Pots

A few nice pots from my early April Firing. 
 

Fall Firing

 After firing to cone 5. Colors shift, pots shrink.

Cruets and Ewers

I thought this batch was cursed from the start. I dropped newly thrown pots on the floor, a big bowl exploded in the bisque kiln, and then from some strange reason St. Theresa (the kiln) shut off after a few hours on the glaze firing. So I refired and look how lovely these came out! There's a little teapot and sugar bowl in the lower left. Oil and vinegar cruets to their right, and then a whole mess of little ewers or vases, I guess they could be anything. The red iron oxide glaze is all I really have right now. I need to refresh my glaze buckets, but all these came out just fine.

I think I need to fit them all with corks now. By chance I had a big cork that fits perfectly in the sugar bowl. I've made my own corks in the past, but they tend to be wonky, and I refuse to leave scars on cork trees (which incidentally are everywhere in Stockfish). But for the moment, these will do.

August Firing

I don't think I've ever seen a glaze do this. I'm blown away. A few pieces dribbled and will need to be ground down, but otherwise and incredible firing of a set of these bowls.

Plus a few little Japanese tea cups with the same feathering.

May Firing

May Firing shows a really nice flameware skillet in the back, a goblet which amazingly I was able to put back together bone dry. A LOT of new noodle soup bowls. Look at the gorgeous hair's fur in the one on the back left. Some mugs, sake cups. I was under the impression that these would be green, but this shiny black color is perfectly fine with me. Not pictured are the pieces my son and his friend threw and the spider yarn holder Paul next door made. OH and a really large stovetop casserole I think I want to reglaze and fire again. I have at least another kilnful and maybe two. Especially if I do a few odds and ends that have been sitting around the studio. St. Theresa did a wonderful job!