Now that I’ve had a few days to study and photograph my latest efforts from the soda kiln, I can show them to you. The two best pieces are being kept secret for a Summer event. ‘Nuff said, but it’s hard not to share them right away!
Overall I thought the firing was very good. As you saw in the earlier post there were some good colours and lots of melting for everybody’s work. Some pieces that delight me include this smallish jugbird. He’s a good gold colour, with a fine gold beak.
I took four photos of this little yunomi because it looks different from all sides, and I wanted to show the red inside. The carbon trapping on part of it contrasts nicely with the yellow flashing slip on the rest. I think it’s sweet!
The taller of these two vases wound up with pretty pale blue orange peel, and I like the random wax resist on its sides.
The rounder one produced pretty green. I’m always hoping that will happen!
Not all my jugs are birds! Here are two little fellows which would be good for milk in your tea. One is really carbon-trapped and has that nice red inside. The other is just a nice example of soda firing, lined with Tesha glaze.
This jug is an example of why it’s often a really good idea to put a soda-fired pot in for another dose. Re-firing this jug from last year has given it my hoped-for blue orange peel. Isn’t that luscious?!
After he’d chosen a carved, grooved pouring bowl for himself, Brian BC challenged me to make more, nesting if possible. I love doing the carving but my old hands aren’t going to be making huge bowls. And just to make life interesting the larger of these three has warped in the heat. I think I’ll let it go out there so let me know if you’d like an odd but otherwise pleasing bowl.
Other pots are above, and my only slight disappointments are these last two pots, a tea-pot and a large jugbird. They’ll be kept aside for re-firing in the June soda kiln.
Thanks for taking a look at my latest soda-fired stoneware pots. I do enjoy working with stoneware for part of each year, and I still have a group of pots that I took in to Vancouver on Saturday. They have now been fired in the Potters Guild of BC gas kiln and I shall have the fun of seeing everybody’s results from that firing next Saturday.
Don’t forget to try to attend the opening of CERAMICS IN FLUX at PoMoArts on Thursday. Let’s hope the forecast snow stays away from Port Moody. The show will be up until late March.
Now I need to clean my wheel so that I can start work with red earthenware clay.
