Illustrated is a
before and after montage of a stoneware slipped and combed covered water jar
that was later glazed in a rich, Albany slip based amber glaze. The surface of
the pot has a variety of textures including where the white slip was brushed on
and allowed to create areas of thicker raised slip along the brush marks. The
combed circles have the added texture of having areas where the ameyu glaze
built up to create much richer and darker areas. The form of the pot was
heavily influenced by Korean pottery by way of Karatsu creating a substantial
amount of volume in a pot that is not terribly large. Though it was my
intention to make the pot just as it is illustrated, the before and after
pictures give a sense of how the pot had to be made to end up glazed just the
way it did. Though I am a huge fan of running, flowing glazes as well as ones
that change dramatically in the kiln, there is something to be said about
surfaces that come out just about as you see them in your mind's eye.
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