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April is around the corner. It was snowing outside. We always have the tug of war between the winter and the spring.
Kiln is loaded, and ready to go tomorrow. No wind in forecast.
Sometime glazing idea comes from the imperfect firing result. Here is one. This bowl is supposed to be look like on the left, but the glaze just dropped during the firing (photo on right). I liked it, and tried the duplicate design, purposely, by brushing the glaze.
Last two firing, I put a couple of test glaze. I was aiming the chun blue, and got this amber color. I like it actually.
I was glazing today, and noticed this cup on the glazing table. It looks like the chun glaze. Bottom of the cup shows 2000 by me. I totally forget about I had this glaze. This will be great with my tenmoku glaze. I found the recipe in the hyperglaze program, and will mix it tomorrow for the next firing, which is on Tuesday.
Opened the kiln today. Still having the oxidation on the bottom shelves, but the rests of kiln are good.
The reduction agent reduced the rutile blue glaze, but pitted very badly. I may apply too much. Need further testing.
I am starting to catch the glaze bug. There was a test pieces for the celadon blue glaze, which does not craze, but got yellow-ish color. I sorta like the result, though. I used 1% of black iron oxide. I will try with 1% red iron oxide next time, and apply more thickly.
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