Plate, covered in cone 5 Angie's Gloss. You can get some neat effects with this glaze but this time it just came out a mostly light blue/green. You can see a little purple spotting on the front lip. Depending on the firing, you could get a lot more.

B-mix clay, wheel thrown, 9 inches in diameter. To be given to Jennifer.

Plate, covered in cone 10 Orange Blue Rutile. The purple has been settling into the any grooves as of late (see Fall 99 ceramics), which gives neat effects. Your basic plate.

B-mix clay, wheel thrown, 9 inches in diameter. To be given to Jennifer.

Bowl, covered in a very thick cone 5 cobalt glaze. This is different from the cobalt oxide I used in the above big bowl. This glaze turned out wonderfully, and I'm attributing that to the thickness of the glaze. Lots of neat swirls, especially inside the piece. You can see some of the roughness of the clay as well, but you can't feel it. Strange that the color pulled away, but not the thickness of the glaze.

B-mix clay, wheel thrown, 6 inches in diameter, 6 inches high. Sent to my friend Bianca in Holland.

The final piece of the first glaze batch. Table bowl with the Red Art Shino glaze on it. This produced wonderful fish-eye effects on a past piece (see Fall 99 ceramics) and this time a few students mentioned they liked the way this turned out.

B-mix clay, wheel thrown, 7-1/2 inches in diameter. To be given to Jennifer.

Another in the plate series. This one is pretty light, considering my usual offerings. Much more pronounced lip as well. Nice spiral patter in the surface.

B-mix, wheel thrown, about 8" in diameter, covered in cone 5 Iron Saturate. Nice gold color...

What is a cute little...bowl, cup, ? It's got a nice shape to it, not heavy on the bottom (figured I'd make ONE piece like that). The bumps you see are very textured...1/8" high, or higher. This was the now infamous cobalt blue glaze, but I topped it with the Red Art Shino from above, and it is the Shino glaze that affected the piece as shown. Could be interesting ways to use this...

Wheel thrown, B-mix, 3" diameter, 3.5" high, cone 5.

Another plate in the plate series. I've discovered why my plates come out warped...the ceramics aid sets them on top of bowls or whatever else he can find while they are drying. Nice, I know. At least I know it's not all me.

Wheel thrown, b-mix, cone 5 Cobalt Blue, 7" diam.

See above, just about the same. This one is 8" in diameter, much more pronounced lip.

Ahh, what can be accomplished by mixing glazes together. This is Orange Blue Rutile (see above) mixed with Deborah's Celidon (see Fall 99). This combination produces a much different effect from OBR alone, but it also runs like crazy. You have to leave about an inch from the bottom to avoid sticking. I didn't.

A tall bowl that got lopsided...sort of a leaning tower...so I pushed it over more. Form a spout, add a handle, and instant pitcher. The glaze is another experiement...Orange Blue rutile (from above) mixed with Mary's Surprise. This glaze doesn't seem to run as much as the mix above, but did create a wonderful pattern where it accumulated (not really visible here, but on the vertical parts of the handle it is nice).

A junior partner to the BAMB series. Nice enough, and the glaze came out very well. Don't know what I'd use it for, but sometimes you just make stuff to make stuff. Cone 10 Wildcat.

The Kiwi plate. This plate has suffered at the hands of the kiln aide (like so many of my pieces this semester), so it is lopsided (but to a greater degree than any of my other pieces). Screw 'em. Kiwi green, cone 5 glaze, topped with Lawanda's Clear to give it some sort of gloss finish (Kiwi is pretty matte). All the usual stuff applies, about 9" in diameter.

This out-of-focus picture does not do this plate justice, and shows what you can accomplish by mixing and matching. I call it the Moon Plate, and I'm facinated with it. Simply Orange Blue Rutile, covered with Mary's Surprise. Same glaze pattern used in the pitcher above, but with obviously different results. :) 9" or so in diameter.

Another gold plate, this one quite a bit heftier than the one above. Same glaze, more or less same result, though I got dabs of red near the center of the plate (that you can barely make out). Cone 5 Iron glaze, heavily dipped.

Another favorite, another mixture, and another warped plate. But for these colors, I don't mind. The same mix found on one of my Big Ass Bowls, Temoku and Mary's Surprise. Funny how Mary's Surprise is lame by itself, but wonderful in combination. Lovely patterns...to cover this up with food...?

Yeppers, another plate. I was out of ideas for glazing, coming at the end of the semester, so not only did I just dip this in a couple of glazes, I didn't even write down which ones I used! Oh well, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Not a bad plate (heck, it's mostly flat on the bottom!), certainly worthy of food.

Another in the Moon Plate series. This one is cone 5 Cobalt Blue (same as above) with either Fields of Lilac or Angies Gloss spread out in the middle. Another of the late pieces without a name or known glaze...

An older project, but one that has, so far, not received any attention. It was a last-semester item, one of the few that got dissed by the lame kiln tech until after the semester. I picked it up a couple months later, always intending for it to be a fountain (well, that is after the tall cylinder I had made fell over). I had given out fountains for Christmas last year, and this one didn't get made until summer of this year. Nothing but some clay, a pump, and come copper tube. It lives at work, my attempt to drown out some of the background and PA noise. Everyone makes comments on it, always a nice thing.

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