I’ve taken up a bit of glass fusing.. see?

That scattered green on the wave was a bit more olive than I liked, but overall a success.  The one on the right was all kinds of fun.  The first layer of glass on the bottom was “french vanilla,” which reacts with chemicals in other glass and with silver to produce the effects you see in this piece.  The circles you see there are fine silver rings that I simply set atop the french vanilla glass and sprinkled with the same aqua and light green frit what was used in the wave on the left.  Then you just pop it in the kiln and see what is going to react with what.  

And finally was able drop by the studio and pick up some stuff that had been fired recently.  Mainly a set of six of the ramekins below, as well as a bunch of glaze tests which weren’t nearly as exciting. (Tom Coleman’s porcelain. Non-iron blue celadon glaze.  Cone 10 reduction.)

Also went to a week long pottery workshop taught by Birdie Boone at Arrowmont in Gatlinburg, TN (the week before they lost two of their dorm buildings to the fire there).  Made a few mugs.  Cone 6 red clay.  Three firings.  One to fire the pot to bisque.  Another to bisque the white crackle bisque slip over it.  A final firing to add the transparent glaze.  

Took a test tile with the crackle bisque slip home and tried it with a cone 05 crackle glaze.  Am pleased.