My favorite mug!
Notice how much stronger the color is after the glaze is fired.
After the bisque firing.
Here the glaze has been applied but it has not had the final firing.
This mug practically made it self by bending out of shape, inspiring its whole organic look.
Daddy’s Mug
Before the glaze firing.
Mid-way through carving.
Mommy’s Mug
It’s always exciting to get a piece back and see the color transformation.
I added a hand warming pocket to this one. Turned out to be a bit of a hand roaster though.
When I bought the purple glaze for this project I was told it would need to go on thick to get the right color. It took 3 glaze firings for me to get it thick enough! The first two times it came out this color.
Noah’s 1st mug.
Noah’s Mugs
The lines where carved during the trimming process and the Treble Clef was added on top.
Avoiding cross contamination with the black and white was a challenge.
This is Josiah’s 1st mug.
The black is iron oxide stain and fires to a mat finish.
Josiah’s Mugs
This is one of my most involved handles.
I used a metallic silver to highlight the black.
This mug took two tries. The first attempt I used brown clay. Sadly that one cracked in the final glaze firing.
The black in the lines is an Iron Oxide stain which I also used on the final white clay version.
This was my first time using a metallic glaze.
Gideon’s Mug
Ezra’s Mug
Levi’s Mug
I wasn’t very happy with how the glaze turned out but Levi, my little brother, changed my prospective by saying, “It looks like a storm cloud with lightning!”.
This mug dates to when I was making Daddy’s mug and can be seen on the glaze shelf in the pictures above. The orange band on the unfired mug became the blue color dripping by the triangles.
I put the glaze on too thick and it melted onto the kiln shelf. I saved it by smoothing it on a rock grinder.
My parents gifted me a wheel of my own!
The daisy was added on top and then carved.
There is a lot of contrast before and after the glaze firing for this blue.
This brown clay is called Toast.
Before glaze firing.
This glaze only turns blue in thicker areas. In addition I added a flowing glaze in the lines, handle, and inside rim.
This is one of my early mugs as you can see by the heavy base.
One of my very first larger mugs.