Those are bisque fired and waxed. The next step is glazing.
Those are green yet; they are drying slowly under plastic.
Drying mugs can be tricky. When you first attach them, the handles are often wetter than the cup, and you have to let the moisture even out because if you try to dry them too quickly the handles can crack or pop off.
Those are more mugs under plastic.
Dave and I are doing a 100 mug challenge. We are each making 100 mugs as an exercise slash attempt to get better at making mugs. It's a classic potters' exercise to improve at a given technique. Most potters are trying to reach some point, I think, where they can make a specific type of ware consistently. (Potters who make functional wear are often trying to sell sets of things.) Neither The Brain nor I work that way, turns out. I managed, among the first 20 or so mugs, to come up with "couples" (two mugs that looked sort-of similar, enough so that I could glaze them the same), but the last thirty or so mugs are wildly, willfully, intentionally individual. There are no two that look alike. That's more my speed.
Dave's mugs are much more refined than mine are; they're almost feminine.
It's interesting to see how different our styles are, mug-wise. (I'll post some finished mug photos in a bit.)
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