Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Cups and facets and biggish bowls

Yesterday's firing went more or less by the book, gaining heat steadily from 8:30 a.m. until about 4 p.m. No problems, no sudden shutdowns, no muffled explosions. Scarily routine. I have too long a memory for troubled firings, perhaps. I haven't had one for quite a while.
Lots of small bowls in this one. Faceted teabowls, cups or condiment bowls, depending on your nomenclature. Last firing was largely Nuka, but this firing had more of a variety of glazes. Carbon-trap Shino with Shino and ash glaze pours, glossy iron Kaki, straight ash celadon, Temmoku, a few scary copper reds.
I had tried a new way of faceting small bowls a couple of weeks ago, so there are lots of them in this firing. A more defined wire pattern to the faceting, due to my purchase at NCECA of a coiled wire from a Canadian pottery supply shop.
And I've had some luck with larger shallow bowls the past few weeks. Here's one.
Back to the wheel tomorrow.






4 comments:

Julia said...

The faceted bowls are just lovely. So glad your firing went well.

cookingwithgas said...

they are very nice Hollis and the platter looks like a wave in the ocean.

Unknown said...

I like the motion in your pots...and agree with Meredith about the wave in the ocean platter~ beautiful!

A. Bear said...

The colors on the platter! Lovely, lovely, lovely!