Art 399: CUPS 61-70

I was challenged during one of my critiques to find a shape that I liked and replicate it.  To make a series of similar cups.  So I chose this form, and added a simple resist etching design and a handle, and then I replicated it 12 times.  They aren't exactly identical:  some are taller, some are heavier, but they are close enough.

These cups are all made with the porcelaneous stoneware.  I had just learned a new method of attaching handles (pulled off the cup itself instead of pulling it separately and attaching).  So this was a good opportunity to practice this new method.

Though they all look similar as bisqueware they are all glazed and fired differently.  Again, this was a good method of testing glazes on uniform pieces.

All thrown in one afternoon, wet clay.

 bisqueware, cups 61-72

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Resist Etching.  Ocean Green and Choy Blue.  Fired electric kiln, Cone 6 

I thinned the choy blue glaze (it is on top).  The blue isn't blue because it was fired in an electric kiln, which always adds oxygen.  It will turn blue in reduction.  I made tho ocean green glaze too, and I really like the way it looks in electric kiln, it has some really subtle purple hues. 

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Resist Etching.  Ocean Green and Choy Blue.  Fired electric kiln, Cone 6 .  Then refired in gas kiln to cone 3 (the firing was interrupted).  The choy blue is almost blue.  Hopefully I can repeat a reduction cone 10 firing in the fall.

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Resist Etching.  Chun Clear.  Fired electric kiln, Cone 6  

This is the same glaze that went red in reduction firing!  This is what I intended: a pale blue with lots of glass former. 

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Resist Etching.  Chun Clear.  Fired electric kiln, Cone 6

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Resist Etching.  Chun Clear and Ocean Green.  Fired electric kiln, Cone 6 

Possibly my favorite glaze combination, and and my favorite cup, but it has a crack in it! 

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Resist Etching.  Chun Clear and Ocean Green.  Fired electric kiln, Cone 6  

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Resist Etching.  Choy Blue.  Fired gas red kiln to cone 3 (interrupted).

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Resist Etching.  Pete Pinnelle's Clear glaze.  Soda fired 4-16-10.  The glaze did not mature, so it was refired in soda kiln 5-1-10. 

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Resist Etching.  Acero glaze.  Soda fired 4-16-10.  The glaze did not mature, so it was refired in soda kiln 5-1-10.

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Resist Etching.  Temple White glaze.  Soda fired 4-16-10.  The glaze did not mature, so it was refired in soda kiln 5-1-10.