Nearly Made It!

Here are a few of the year-end pots, informal pics taken with my new camera!

These pots are made from a a new kind of clay (new to me, anyway) that is very, very dark brown. I made a few pots, small ones, just to see how well the clay throws (it's really nice, actually), and to test various finishes on them.



This is the clay with white slip, carved away, and clear glaze sponged on. I like the shininess of the finished product.



This little pot is the same as above only without the sponged on clear layer. I like the matte-ness of it.



This is the same as above only instead of clear glaze, I sponged on a bit of watered down rutile (a mineral comprised mainly of titanium dioxide and iron). The orange cast works on this piece, but I wouldn't use it again.

These next two are pics of the same pot:



It's the same treatment, only I brushed various glazes over the white slip. The real test was the red liner glaze on the inside. Despite this clay's having a reputation for not getting along with glazes, and the red glaze being a bit of a problematic glaze in an of itself, the two worked very well together.



These two kind of remind me of Thing 2 and Thing 1 from The Cat in the Hat.



This is what remained when the dust settled after Glaze-a-palooza 2011. I nearly made it! There are just four pieces to carry me into 2012.



This is a group photo of about a third of what did get glazed during Glaze-a-palooza 2011.