Lots of new calavera-type work, white slip over dark clay. This is in progress, bisqued but not glazed. The other pieces are green, not fired at all yet.
After they're bisque fired, I'll use various glazes to make them multi-hued.
They're fairly small vases, none of them taller than about six inches.
As I got tired of carving, the calaveras got more cartoonish. That's when I stopped carving for the day.
Most of the vases have calaveras all the way around. This vase however, has a calavera on the front and some vaguely bacteria-like designs on the back.
And this is what potential failure looks like:
The greenish cast on this vase is from god knows what. It came up on the bisqued piece after I wiped it down with a damp sponge to get the dust off (a common procedure to ensure a good glaze coat). I don't know if it will fire out in the high-temperature glaze firing, so I'm going to send it through without glaze to see.
This is failure at its finest, a kiln that accidentally overfired, destroying the shelves the work sat on and fusing the pieces together. All the work is ruined, of course, and because of the damage to the kiln bricks and elements, the entire kiln is useless now. (None of it was mine, thankfully.)
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