Thursday, January 17, 2008

I think I'm in love!

I posted this dish a week or two ago in the leather hard stage. Often, this is the romantic stage with pottery. Either you are in love with your piece - it is smooth, dark, and cool but still flexible enough to bend to your will; or you hate it. Occasionally you might let the hated ones grow on you, but by the time they are bone dry, you should know whether or not the relationship will work.So, this little guy passed the love test and went on to be bisque fired and then glazed and fired again. Sometimes, at this stage, you fall right back out of love. Some pieces go bad in the glaze firing and disappoint you with blisters or pinholes or even (gasp) cracking. I always wonder what I did to make them hurt me so. But this little guy was true to my heart and came out perfect!

5 comments:

Michelle Engel Bencsko said...

Very pretty - this is probably among one of my favorite glaze colors, too.

beth said...

Your work is beautiful. I love that blue color.

Mendy at Modern Charm said...

Wow! Really gorgeous design and color.

aMuseDoodles said...

I love the color. Is is so soothing...I want to touch it!

JenP said...

Oh you're so right about the anatomy of clay love! This dish looks beautiful, I can see why you're so smitten!