Post #795790 by GROG on Thu, Jun 20, 2019 10:03 AM

MuchO AwesomeO TOBUNGA dude! GROG hope the fire goes well and everything comes out great. Fun stuff.

Yep Skipper, all art has it's challenges and learning curves, but it's also experimental, so you try new things and see if they work, or do something by accident and get an unexpected result--good or bad. That's half the fun.The problem with the yellow underglaze flaking was because GROG put it on bisque. It says on the bottle you can apply to greenware or bisque, but it usually adheres better to greenware. Hopefully GROG can fix it all in the glazing stage.

Wendy, no need to apologize. Your bowl cracking had nothing to do with GROG being an idiot. Everything would have gone much smoother if GROG had started from scratch instead of using an old bowl that had been sitting around for so long. Even though GROG had used lots of water, the different clays and slip used on the bowl had different amounts of water in them and dried at different speeds causing the bowl to crack, so GROG started off on the wrong foot by being lazy and trying to take a shortcut.

Thanks for the encouragement Swiz. We'll see how things look after glazing and firing this weekend.

[ Edited by: GROG 2019-06-20 10:15 ]