Last semester, when I was first becoming really interested in ceramics, I would go into the glaze room and randomly choose a glaze, dip my pot in and fire it. I came across one glaze that made my pots look great--it hid imprefections and created this awesome variation of blues, browns and sometimes even purples. This semester, I have devoted about 90% of my glazing time to working with this magical glaze--Woo Blue Brown. I've been experimenting with how the colors change depending on how thick it is, where the pot is placed in the kiln during the firing and I also did some work with layering additional glazes both under and over the Woo Blue.
The following pictures are some of the most successful results I've had this semester:
This is a large soup bowl. To create the awesome variation in color, I added a Cone 10 Clear Liner glaze to the inside of the pot and swirling some additional Woo Blue Brown glaze on the inside to create more of the blue color--the thicker the glaze, the more variation in color.
This is a set of small soup bowls with Woo Blue Brown on them.
This is another soup set--the largest bowl does not have the Clear Liner, but I still achieved a great variation in color.
This is a soup bowl and plate on which I acheived the best overall blue color of the entire semester. There's very little brown on the two pieces except for the rims.
This is the brightest blue I achieved all semester--it's on the outside of a large serving platter.
This is the interior of a bowl. To create this color combination, I layered Clear Liner, Woo Blue and more Clear Liner.
The exterior of the same bowl as above. I layered Clear Liner with Woo Blue.
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