ZERO EXPECTATIONS

I guess the question I originally had was what happens if I were to put my iron yellow glaze over the new thin white, Hagi-like glaze and well, now I have an answer even though this all started with zero expectations. Using an existing small test cup I tried out the iron yellow and hw-05 glaze and ended up with this buttery soft surface that immediately reminded me of some Takatori surfaces that I have seen over the years. Not really knowing what I was going to end up with and no preconceived notions this is a rather neat surface that obviously is compatible with the white and has a nice surface that shows off all the rough pocks and inclusions in the clay to good effect. Like almost all the iron glazes I use the surface is runny and a bit droozy where it terminates, something clearly seen on a number of my tests and pots as the base glaze for almost all, well many of these surfaces is roughly the same one. It is always quite a welcome experience to go into a test without the stress and expectations of certain results which ends up as a welcome surprise that worked at least the first time it was tried on a small pot, let's see if it works on the next test size up. Now I can be anxious about the next series of tests.