Ceramics

After a weird result in beginning ceramics I'd avoided the shino glaze for the rest of that semester as well as the one after. However for some reason as a pet side project I became interested in it and wanted to explore the glaze family.

This shino is named after one of the founding fathers of shino,

his name escapes me at the moment, but there's a lot of speckles

that were cause from the clay body as well as additional iron

sprinkles.

It's interesting because the areas where the glaze was thicker, 

are slightly (a few millimeters) thicker by feel as well as whiter

in appearance.

This is the shino available at OU. The dark areas/gray areas are
where carbon was trapped within the glaze, the orange was where
the glaze was thinner as well as protected by wax. On the left,
you can faintly see some texture--that is created by the glaze
separating or "crawling."  I think Shino is the only glaze at OU
that does that.

There is also White Shino! So instead of orange the parts that
were protected from the carbon trapping and "dirty" firing
are white instead of orange.

The following two pictures show the same bowl from different angles. This was the bowl I was talking about in yesterday's post. This piece, I feel, made the whole pet project worth it.  It's also from OU shino, but due to the firing and the pieces it was next to a lot of interesting things happened. The purple/red you see is from copper flashing from the piece next to it. You can see the gray spots where carbon was trapped. The little spots are actual indentions where the glaze crawled. Overall, it just turned out a lot cooler than I was expecting.

 I finally figured out/ was taught the correct way of doing coptic stitching! As a result have a little quarter sized booklet (60 pages). The booklet is actually an insert into a cover created with book board, glue, and some scrap booking paper. Another booklet design learned and tucked under my belt :p