Nothing Exciting

It's Tuesday, which means I have class tonight. It also means that I didn't post last week...until now. Nice Jess. Way to be on the ball.

Anyway. I didn't post last week because I did not do anything particularly interesting in class last week. I glazed four pieces, including the steins. I had spent a lot of time prior to last Tuesday contemplating how I should glaze them. They were supposed to be a Christmas gift for my brother, so I wanted to take his tastes into account. Granted, their beer steins and he's a man, so what is he going to care what they look like as long as they hold his drink of choice? But that's just how my considerate brain works.

When I got to the studio, though, I still had no idea what I was going to do. I glazed the small mug in tenmoku first. I'm really hoping it turns out all black, but as is my luck it will probably all break brown. Since it was there, I stuck with the tenmoku for the steins as well, but I wanted to mix it up a bit. So I dipped the first one to about an inch from the rim, then turned it over and dipped that inch in semi-gloss white. I also used the white on the inside. The other one is the inverse (black on the inside, white on the outside). I don't know if either glaze has a tendency to run, but I guess we'll find out. Hopefully they loaded a glaze fire last week. There were a lot of glazed pieces ready to be fired by the time I got mine glazed...

I also glazed this this one (porcelain), which I think I'll have to call a mini-vase. I went with celedon blue, which I used on this vase (Death Valley). Hopefully the glaze will be better with porcelain and it won't slide of the rim like it did with the Death Valley.

Glazing was as productive as I got last week, unfortunately. I tried to throw, but that did not work out so well for me. I thought it was centered when I opened, but apparently I was wrong. So yeah. This week will be better, hopefully. I still have the spiral platter and the pie dish to glaze, and a smallish bowl that will probably take me longer to find than it will to glaze. I realized, with some chagrin, recently that we're down to ONE wine glass in my house. So I'm going to try my hand at throwing some goblets. Wish me luck!