Off the Porch and Growling

Today is a day I have been waiting for ... for quite awhile in fact. I have been trying to make platter's for some time - finally achieving the goal, trimming them and gettng them back right before heading off to disney. Yahooo ... glazing them this last week. Happily I carol the ode to joy over their return.

I have to say I am extremely, happy with both of them. What you will see is both platter's and a cross section to show off some of the details.


I used Amaco's "Deep Firebrick" as the liner. It's a very nice red, not overly obnoxiously bright and yet it doesn't pink up on you. Nothing worse than getting a pink pot when you expected red - Bleh, just bleh ... anyway, the standard red iron oxide and soda ash treatment is applied on the outside to both pots as well. These are Miller 65 so the shine is down, lol. I prefer a shine, on some pots it's okay to have a duller finish and it looks okay.

Here is a close up view of the handle. I am really, really proud of the handles - from a learning standpoint if just the handles turned out good I would have called this a win, getting the whole package ... bonus. To obtain this organic effect I split the clay on a roughly fourty-five degree angle and then pushed out and up just a smidge (as in not a lot) I then cleaned it up carefully and added a couple of decorative bits made from stamped clay. finally I stamped it to give the glaze a few places to play.

I really, really like how the deep firebrick breaks across edges, and it is translucent just enough to see some of the red iron oxide underneath and where it was a bit stronger we get the burn through which adds to the look I think.