Glaze Results

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I have thrown more mugs. mandy tell me my handles are to thin  and has given me a lesson on how to pull handles properly so the next mugs on this page will be new and improved.
 

I have also  reduced the weight of  mugs to 350 grams of clay . this gives  thinner walls but the stamps when pushed into the surface give a completly diffent effect to the overall which I thinks improves them.

Above are some new 3D stamps carved in plaster of paris which I hope to use in some new mugs.

These 2 mugs are just after been glased with a glaze that I hope will break on the edge of stamps impressions to highlight them and hopefully enhance.

 

 

 

This is a mixture of an orange and blue glaze ?? Havent made up my mind about it

Still looking for a purple My wife Kathleen says its Blue

Ceramic Process

A friend of mine visited japan recently a brought me a leafet explaining how the Ceramic cycle eorks from quarry to the kiln . A very usefull diagram explains it very well see below

Mug Glaze Tests

Today I have made glazed 7 mugs and they were taken from the kiln at 3pm today .

They were fired at  1260°C

Cobolt Blue

Metalic Gold or Brown ?

Purple/Blue ?

Purple Blue ? 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Orange

This was to be yellow but went wrong

The love hearts were pink but went wrong

Glazes

Here are 2 new glazes I am trying. The 1st  and 2nd are a Blue?Purple although I am finding a pure Purple hard to get .                
The 3rd one is a Granite Grey

Blue /Purple 1

Blue .Purple 2

Granite Grey

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