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Thanks. I used a paper stencil cut from a real leaf as the plant was struggling this year and I didn't want to keep taking leaves (Lovage which usually grows well in our garden but we've had a very hot dry summer).  I gave someone a set of soup bowls with this design.

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The tenmoku must have been a bit thin as it normally produces a really good black speckled brown and this time it's just a tan brown.

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They look very archaeological. Reminds me of celtic rock carvings http://www.timetravel-britain.com/articles/stones/rockart.shtml

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I love the whole thing and especially that blue glaze with the speckles.

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OK so smaller spout and not flared. True it will need a sharp edge. I think I meant more like a simple thickening at the rim which would be easier to transition to an edge within the spout rather than a true roll.

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Yes, something less flared at the top, perhaps just a small rolled rim.

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The idea is a tiny jug for an individual sauce serving or salad dressing. I don't think the rim is right though. Any thoughts how to improve?

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And thankfully not too much movement ;-).  The main runs are from the yellowish Sandstone that is white when really thick. I use it as a base layer and also add a big dollop-ey third coat just below the rim. It applies in big drippy runs that freeze 1/4 of the way down and then run further when fired.

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Thanks Nerd, this firing was a great confidence booster (to make up for the last one that was not). This blue/grey and the creamy oatmeal are great. Artistically I'm not sure if the brown band brings much to the party (and I didn't get the edges neat as I think I over-thinned my wax resist.)

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Artistically the single thin line seems to have an unresolved tension. Maybe this is a good thing as I like the simplicity. But my mind is pondering if this would be resolved by making the single line wider, or if balance would be restored by a second line? Equally, in the jug I feel the lines may be too broad.

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Thanks. I am rather pleased with it even if I say so myself. Sometimes the glaze looks paler but when you get this deeper blue it's great.

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Thank you! Just perfect for some nuts or pats of butter.

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Thank you! I thinned the slip with water and ran some dribbles over the bowl held on its side.

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Only just seen your comment Nerd, thanks. Don't know that much about the glazes, they're from a professional potter when I went on a course in his studio. The body is very iron rich. The blue glaze has a fairly high clay content, in his words almost a slip. The mottling on the white rice ash glaze is it interacting with the blue underneath it. 

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I think rice ash is high in silica. I forgot to say this was a reduction firing too.