Post #728806 by TikiAno on Wed, Oct 1, 2014 8:59 AM

"Da Bar" mug went through da bisque fire and make it out a-okay. his is speckled buff clay body, so when it vitrifies (during the glaze firing) little black specks will appear all over the clay (under the glaze). Here's what it looks like now.

I'm leaning a few different ways for the glaze options (just one color for the exterior, I think), so made some test tiles with the stone work. Feel free to chime in with any thoughts on glazes, too. Test tiles are used to see how different glazes look on different clay bodies, using different amounts of glaze (or different applications of said glaze) work. I often use whole mugs as test tiles, which is not recommended. :)

I already had brushes out for glazing the test tiles, so I decided to attack the Volcanonut Bowl: Coconut on the outside, Volcano on the inside. I used five different glazes. The bowl base was hand thrown, then a Volcano hand built and attached. The volcano center has an indented area for flammable materials- whatever those may be.

Hopefully these will get fired soon (bad volcano pun). Muchos mahalos for the visit.

I've been posting more photos on my Instagram page- if you're on it, check out "tikianos" and say hi.