Joseph Fireborn

Nice. I plan on eventually adding more color to my work, but for now I am going to just explore these white/grey/brown tones.

Need to do that.

Congrats on the 3 year mark-is that 3 years with clay from scratch 3 years ago?

Yes. I have never touched potter until three years ago. I was bored out of my mind and needed something to do. Got addicted. It has been awesome. Mostly because of everyone here.

maybe. still have a lot of work to do to find components that go with the glaze. A darker version to spray over, modifiers and fake ash glazes. but yea. the journey for a base might be near. which makes me happy tbh.

At the end of the road lies another. Unless it's a dead end xD

Or your driveway. = )

Next time you are on the wheel, try dipping your finger into rio and make finger marks. See if it does any thing for you.

Beware, underglaze can be addictive. Use with caution!

I will try that Nerd. Roberta, we will see!

And this is why it's called a process!

Aye! I enjoy the process more when I make things I love. I love yunomi. Thin beautiful cups. I figure I can apply to other cup shows in 2018 besides AKAR. There is one called SIP. I believe there are others as well. So I might be applying to a lot of those in 2018!

I have had a far more difficult time getting my glazes right than any other aspect of ceramics. I rarely have issues of any kind with the making process, if I'm going to have a problem it's always with the glazing. It can be really discouraging and the journey to success is different for everyone. It's such a disappointment when time after time you open the kiln and the results you see don't match the one you were going for.

Giselle. I can get my glazes pretty good now. I struggled with replicating results for a long time. But now my real problem is just picking a glaze and sticking to it. Although maybe it isn't a real problem. I do need to start using some glazes on actual work and listing it online for sale. I think I am just going to make yunomi and cups with handles for a while. They are my favorite to make anyways.

I tend to stick to about a half-dozen glazes, I don't think that's too many. How many do you have?

Thanks Denice. Roberta: good news!

I read it when I was starting out formulating my own glazes. It's a great book.

Smoke'em if you got 'em....

Enjoy.

I had a good time. Main focus is building a small .5# shape that I can experiment with and spray glaze test on after I finish with the tile part of the testing. The bottle I have developed I think will work well for this.