Wednesday, July 01, 2009

unexpected surprises

Yesterday I collected my last two finished ceramic pieces. When I first saw them the glaze results gave me a surprise and caused a slightly perplexed moment of oh?!, as they were not at all what I was expecting.

The combination of oxide and glazes, wiped and sponged back, have yieled a very broken, distressed effect, with the black iron oxide breaking in varying tones of red through black. After the initial surprise I found the effect quite fascinating.

I'll have to wait to share the details of the glaze finish until I have a decent working camera again. As you can see, the video camera's photo mode yields a seriously unsatisfactory image.

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