Today, I threw a couple of bowls, but my ability to center was not working. It could have been partly due to the new-to-me clay I tried using. In addition, I trimmed three others. One of those three ended up being very experimental...in that I tried a version of mishima on the interior of the bowl. Mishima is a technique of painting a leather-hard vessel with an underglaze(s), then waxing the layer, and finally...carving a design in the underglaze/wax surface before the vessel is fired into bisque. I tried it, and we'll see how it comes out.
Below are the five vessels of Batch #8 that I brought home today. Of them, there are two new things I tried. The stripy one was done with one base layer plus a second layer of alternating painted stripes of the base color and mulberry. The other first is where I used a base layer and added two different lip colors of different widths.
Lately, I've noticed other potters getting some great results using Cone 6 clay and glazes. This is something I want to try soon. Since starting pottery, I've been using Cone 10 for both. (Cone numbers have to do with the temperature the clay and glazes are fired at. The higher the Cone number the higher the firing temperature. There is so much to learn and know!)
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