In the first wood+salt firing, I fired a bunch of my little cups. In the last few days, I over-ambitiously created a bunch of boxes for the next firing of the same kiln - overambitious because there simply wasn’t enough time to allow for a proper drying and bisque firing. So it’ll be a few months more before they’re finished. I enjoyed and was struck by the contrast of brilliant turquoise interiors against soft surfaces of brown and gray and white clays, and so I here share them with you.

I set my pieces on newpaper in part to leave something to be peeled off the wet slip, and in part to avoid contamination by the ware boards, as I prefer to control the bottoms of my pieces. If the greenware shelves for dry pieces are especially dusty, I’ll lay a bit of newspaper down there, too. This shot felt particularly architectural.

I’ve become so accustomed to the boxes’ oversize, accounting for shrinkage, that I wonder if I’ll be shocked by the smaller finished sets, and need some time to acclimate to the new scale of them.

The light is great in this shot. The browner glaze is a thin application of my Woo Blu, the turquoise is a copper blue glaze that Jay Strommen uses.