Illustrated
is a before and after shot of a teabowl with thick combed slip under an Ao
glaze I am working with. I have tweaked the Ao yet again and am trying to get
it just a little bit richer by blending cobalt and iron and would like to see
it with a slightly deeper quality coming out of the next stoneware firing. I
was just starting to get things going for another high-fire cycle last week
when a gallery called letting me know they were down to only a couple of pieces
so I am currently working in terra cotta and making some tebori and b&w
slip pots. The next test for the Ao will have to wait a bit but this teabowl,
out of the last firing shows where I am at with the glaze. It has a lot of
color variation, most notable hues of greens and blues with some small texture
running throughout the glaze for good measure. The glaze respond well to the
textures created by the slip and I am looking forward to it possibly creating an
even richer quality as it dips in to the recesses of the combing. I'll keep
you posted, same pottery time, same pottery channel, more or less.
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