week 24 - Second week of Raku

I had a very productive day making more items !

Three leaf plates - these should make good Xmas presents!



Close-up - the veins in the leaves make wonderful impressions in the clay!


Another 2-sided bottle, this time in a more heavily grogged clay so the finish will be different. I dont intend to polish this bottle, but will probably glaze it in white instead, leaving a few areas bare so that they go black.





2 patchwork bowls - these are made by putting textures on bits of clay and then just fusing them together with slip. Because the clay runs in all different directions, this kind of bowl is supposed to hold up really well in the Raku firing. All the textures will be places for the glaze to pool, they should look really cool.



This one developed a little hole while I was making it - so I just let it develop, it could look really nice on the finished article!



I was tempted to make more today, but I think that I probably have enough work to fire, I might struggle to get them all done in one firing day actually!!