Pyewackette

shared this with my online class, Alternative Firing thru TeachinArt.com
 

Slab construction, stoneware with a crackle celadon glaze.

Raku clay. 
Manganese Oxide with Clear matt glaze
Low Fire tangerine
Fired at 06 

Buff raku clay
Brown acrylic paint...burned off to powder with pastel spray seal 600C
Face: Brown acrylic paint ...spray glue seal
 

Terra cotta and white kaolin clay mixed 
Acrylic paint over frieze and sculpted detail
Sealed with spray gloss

This is proof positive that I am a potter because this is surely a pot.

small pieces of sponge holds up the rippling edge of this shallow bowl.  found that the slip with red iron oxide had dried up so i did not brush color onto this one.  gotta make more colored slip!

this was about 5 shelves off the bottom.  two long trays plus the ones in foreground.  blue looks intense now, when i cover it with a green glaze to highlight the leaves, it should soften in intensity.

this one is on a pizza stone which is about 16 inches in diameter.  there is another platter under it using only an inch and a half of space.  the taller stacks of small stuff fit around the trays.   will glaze in green and put purple on the dragonfly.

well, i loved the idea of this bowl, tried to do it last year but did not have room in the kiln for it.  so it sat around since january of 2017 waiting.  do you see the crack in the rim?   do not do this.  i think that as i put it into the bottom of the kiln, i used only one hand, stressing the rim.  i know better but it was in an awkward place so i think that is what happened.  do not do this.  blue slip with brush strokes that show, green stroke and coat, red stroke and coat and yellow bug in stroke and coat.  sad....................

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