Post #625953 by swizzle on Tue, Feb 21, 2012 11:30 PM

Thanks everyone for the compliments.

Well i finally glazed a few more mugs with the new brand glazes i recently purchased. They have 38 colours available and i have 6 at the moment. There's definitely a lot more i want to buy as there are some very nice colours to choose from.

First is the replacement mug for the black one in one of my previous posts. The mug was a gift for a friends 40th and i wasn't happy with how the black one turned out, there were a few blemishes, so i made another.(* denotes new brand)

Light Jade* exterior and Peacock Green inside.

The following two mugs are for a friend and his partner who live interstate. He requested green and she purple, so for these two instead of using the same colours on both mugs as i had previously on the mugs for the owners of the Tiki Bar and Lounge i used two different greens and two different purples to mix it up a bit. I'm very happy with how Brett's mug turned out however Jo's mug has a small patch on the inside where the glaze didn't take, you can see that in the photo. I'll only reglaze it if he really wants me to. It's not something you can see when it's sitting on the shelf. :D Unfortunately the brushstrokes are still quite noticable also but it is a great colour. Both mugs have their respective names carved into the back.

Paris Green* and the Purple i mixed myself that i have used several times before.

Mauve* exterior and Peacock Green inside.

So far all the mugs i have made i've given to friends except one that i sold to an aquaintance. This mug i'll also sell to an aquaintance who saw my post on Facebook and said he'd like one. He runs a cafe and everything in there is green, so naturally that's what colour he requested.

Paris Green* again with Lime Green.

Now this last mug has a bit of story to it which i won't go into because it'll take forever to write. :lol: It is going to a friend who lives in Arizona and who's favourite colour is pink. It is because of her i was trying to find a nice pink that i came across the company online that i got all these new glazes from. This mug was a bit of an experiment as i tried to get a different texture on the mug, similar yet different to the woodgrain ones i've made. I couldn't really stop after i had started so it wasn't until i had finished that i thought to myself, "It looks like it has the measles". But after picking it up today i'm quite happy with how it looks now that it has been glazed. In the photo it looks like it's darker at the bottom and fades up but it's not actually like that, it's probably just from the lighting.

Dusky Pink* and my pre-mixed Purple.

That's it for now. I have another mug to pick up next week that i'm really looking forward to seeing and hoping it comes out OK. It has a crystal glaze on the inside and needs to be fired at a lower temperature so it needs to go in with a bisque firing which they didn't do this week. I'll obviously post pics of it when i get it back.
Until then, cheers.
swizzle

[ Edited by: swizzle 2012-02-24 00:15 ]