SORRY, ISSAC

I have this habit of glazing rignt to the very edge of disaster regarding the feet of most of my pots and this chattered teabowl is no exception. Glazing to the edge of the precipice is probably okay if you are using rather stable and stiff glazes but maybe I forgot to mention that I love glazes than move and run to create motion and the combination of such a surface and a risky glazing technique doesn't always go hand in hand. Back to the beginning, this teabowl was made out of a white stoneware and then black slipped and chattered to create a nice decoration to match the conical form. Once bisque the bowl was glazed in the soda blue I am currently working with, from a formula I first used back in the mid-90s. As you can clearly see, though evenly glazed, the glaze has run and built up around the foot almost to the point of imminent failure though perched atop a thin slice of soft brick to minimize a potential catastrophe. Though defying gravity slightly, sorry Issac, the foot ring is now covered over in a rather attractive coat of thick blue, fractured glaze which certainly is a plus despite the potential for failure next time around and it does show quite nicely in the afternoon sunlight. 

I'll take this one as a win as I continue to figure out just what I can and can not get away with at various spots in and around the kiln and though hope is not a brilliant strategy, I can hope that keeping the glaze thickness in the bucket a consistent thickness and the application to the pot as well, maybe the wins will outweigh the loses which in any given firing is the best I can hope for.