TWO BIRDS, ONE STONE

It wasn't that long ago that this teabowl was a flat, cracked mess, akin to Humpty Dumpty but I took the time, repaired it and used a new thick, sandy slip on the piece despite the fact that it hadn't been thoroughly vetted. In a firing a couple of weeks back I sent through the first test using this sandy slip with an Oribe glaze which worked fine so I decided to kill two birds with one stone and tried out a slightly larger piece with an amber glaze I haven't used in quite some time. Illustrated is the teabowl , once flat and now fired with a rather hefty visual and actual texture where glaze has built up here and there created rich, deep valleys of dark amber glaze with a surface punctuated by fine white sand and small stones across the surface. I am glad I didn't just throw this bowl in the slake bucket when it hit the floor asit has provided a fair amount of information, the big question now is how best to use either slip or glaze?