Television inspiration

While watching television a few weeks ago, I saw an infomercial for a stoneware piece of pottery! It has a hollow handle and a hole in the knob so the steam can vent while microwaving your food. So I said to myself, "I can make that." It soft cooks an egg nicely, but that is the only thing I've tried so far. The glaze on the inside is a nice shiny white....Colonial White by Laguna and the outside is my scrap glaze that is a years collection of cleaned glazing brushes. I like where white overlaps the brown and pulls some brown with it. I'll have to try that combination again. Just looking at this make me think of the future fall season that I've been looking forward to all summer. Utah had the hottest summer on record...3 straight months of over 90 degrees. I don't care how cold or how much snow we get...I will not complain! I promise!

A little bit of crackle

Wow, does time fly when you're not blogging. Here are some pieces I've completed as of late. The glaze is Laguna's Catalina Crackle and Tang Lime crackle. If your pieces lay flat, the glazes pool nicely and blend with the plumb glaze to soften the edges, which I like. If you put the crackle on a bowl, it runs like it's in a marathon! So my pottery mentor, Jack Jarvie, "tweeked" the Catalina Crackle for the bird. He used some feldspar (alkaline) so I was told. It did the trick and made the glaze behave itself at cone 5/6.