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Glazed Clay Items Make Good Gifts

During Christmas Break I was trying to finish throwing a few items on the wheel, then bisque fire, glaze, and then glaze fire everything in about a week. Though I had no team of pointy-eared short people dressed in red and green, I got everything finished up in time for Christmas. I think I glazed the whole load in about a day and a half. Still using the dip-the-brush-in-the-glaze-and-paint-the-glaze-onto-the-bisqueware method which is ridiculously slow but didn’t seem quite as tedious this time. Probably because the glaze thickness on each piece was directly proportional to my patience and time left before Christmas. As in “I made some of the glaze really thin to save time.” This resulted in some of the pieces having a different result than I had gotten before. Some had different colors and some were just a less glossy finish. Most of them turned out okay, just a little different than expected but a few I want to re-glaze or re-fire. Below you can see some of the finished pieces I pulled out of the last load.

wheel thrown mugs - brown
wheel thrown mugs – brown
wheel thrown mugs - brown
wheel thrown mugs – brown
wheel thrown mugs - dark brown
wheel thrown mugs – dark brown

dark handmade mugs
dark handmade mugs
wheel thrown vase - brown
wheel thrown vase – brown
handmade mugs - earthtone
handmade mugs – earthtone

wheelthrown mugs - blue and green
wheelthrown mugs – blue and green
green glazed stoneware mugs
green glazed stoneware mugs
handmade stoneware mugs - brown
handmade stoneware mugs – brown

textured wheel thrown mugs
textured wheel thrown mugs
large handmade mugs - brown
large handmade mugs – brown
large wheelthrown vase
large wheelthrown vase

stoneware bowls with handles
stoneware bowls with handles
wheel thrwon bottle - brown
wheel thrwon bottle – brown
stoneware mugs
stoneware mugs

wheelthrown cylinder
wheelthrown cylinder

I gave away a lot of these pieces, especially the mugs, as Christmas gifts. I also gave away a few items from the last load that I fired. I got some positive feedback and haven’t heard of any handles falling off or mugs shattering.

As I was shooting the photos of these pots I experimented with a Circular Polarizer filter.  It was a cheap filter but it was interesting to find out how much I could control the reflection.  On some of the bigger items I took two photos with different Polarizer settings and then combined them in Photoshop to get a pretty good result.  Now I just need to upgrade my gray Walmart fabric to a gradient backdrop so the wrinkles won’t show up behind the pots in the photos.

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