Draft tea bowls
Recently, I have had caffeine and insufficient sleep, bad ideas (clay atcs!), and unexpected fish.
Wednesday I dropped by studio briefly with mathhobbit and collected the first round of draft tea bowls back from glazing. Lots of thanks to dcltdw for being interrogated at length on the subject. create_universe, I don't think any of these are quite what you're looking for, but I could use your feedback.
I think these are all a bit small, except possibly the amber one. ( Dimensions and more dimensions.) I suspect neither the blue nor the black-and-turquoise is the right color; I'm not sure about the amber or the black-and-red. The amber glaze on thicker could be much darker. There are several other brown glazes I could try, including the non-amber temoku, or spodumene (light/white when thick or in the wrong atmosphere, so that might take a few tries), or possibly celery, which isn't brown but is earthy, or I've gotten an interesting glossy brown with iron red over rhodes white, or there's brown slip. I'm not quite sure what to shoot for.
Also, shape-wise -- any notion what you'd prefer? I think I have another one kind of like the amber one, and one somewhere between the red/black and the blue that should be out of bisque waiting for glazing. IIRC, those are a smidge bigger, but I haven't seen them fired yet.
I think the red/black is also more or less the shape (but rather small, and not her colors) that merimask calls a 'cereal bowl'?
Also back from glazing are more beads and hearts, and another triangle bowl, in cheryl's blue-green. Possibly one of the hearts is for the proposed mobile for chenoameg's young'un-to-be, and one is for merimask, but I'm not sure what they'll think of that plan.
And now off to studio, having spent much too long noodling around with photographs today, and having spent ~no time working during the last week, as work was eating my time and brain ... or not quite yet, as it just started pouring rain and is a bit of a walk.
Wednesday I dropped by studio briefly with mathhobbit and collected the first round of draft tea bowls back from glazing. Lots of thanks to dcltdw for being interrogated at length on the subject. create_universe, I don't think any of these are quite what you're looking for, but I could use your feedback.
I think these are all a bit small, except possibly the amber one. ( Dimensions and more dimensions.) I suspect neither the blue nor the black-and-turquoise is the right color; I'm not sure about the amber or the black-and-red. The amber glaze on thicker could be much darker. There are several other brown glazes I could try, including the non-amber temoku, or spodumene (light/white when thick or in the wrong atmosphere, so that might take a few tries), or possibly celery, which isn't brown but is earthy, or I've gotten an interesting glossy brown with iron red over rhodes white, or there's brown slip. I'm not quite sure what to shoot for.
Also, shape-wise -- any notion what you'd prefer? I think I have another one kind of like the amber one, and one somewhere between the red/black and the blue that should be out of bisque waiting for glazing. IIRC, those are a smidge bigger, but I haven't seen them fired yet.
I think the red/black is also more or less the shape (but rather small, and not her colors) that merimask calls a 'cereal bowl'?
Also back from glazing are more beads and hearts, and another triangle bowl, in cheryl's blue-green. Possibly one of the hearts is for the proposed mobile for chenoameg's young'un-to-be, and one is for merimask, but I'm not sure what they'll think of that plan.
And now off to studio, having spent much too long noodling around with photographs today, and having spent ~no time working during the last week, as work was eating my time and brain ... or not quite yet, as it just started pouring rain and is a bit of a walk.