Post #589497 by swizzle on Tue, May 17, 2011 5:39 AM

Well it's been quite a long time since I started my ceramics course to get to here but my first glazed mugs have come out of the kiln and home. This is the very first mug from the mold. I used some colours that were available at my school that I liked on the outside and the interior is the purple that I tried mixing myself. It actually turned out quite a nice colour. The outside of the mug was a pale green with a blue over the top. I was hoping to get a speckled effect, but this is how it turned out. Not what I wanted but I still think it looks pretty cool.

This mug is the second from the mold. One of my closest friends asked to have that one and he glazed it himself. I chose the colours, which are a beautiful jade/blue on the outside and a grey on the inside. He decided to do the "eyes" the same colour as the inside. :roll: (They are not the eyes. They are the eyelids.) I like the colours but not the effect. Doesn't matter, it's his mug.

The third mug I glazed is going to my good friend Careless Navigator. I am extremely stoked how this mug came out. I used a dark brown on the inside from my local ceramic supplier and the outside has a lovely brown from school called "Rockingham Brown". Unfortunately it's quite a thin mug so it has a crack running down the back from the top which you can just see in the photo and also has a small area on the top edge where the glaze didn't cover it enough. Other than that I think it came out awesome. Very happy.

These next few pics are of a Moai gear stick shifter and skull pendant a friend of mine will be casting in resin. I just glazed them in the colours I had in front of me to give them a smooth surface to cast from. I should have some of these to sell at some stage. Not sure what colours they are going to be though.

Well that's it for a few weeks until I have some more to show. Glazed another couple tonight but have to wait for them to be fired.