An Addiction Thats All

I Could Spend Days Playing With Colours.

   To say I've enjoyed my day would be an understatement, with the morning spent making beads  from seaglass picked up here on the east coast and the afternoon hours used glazing some more ceramics ready to fire this evening, I've been in heaven, the perfect start to the weekend.
   This evening's firing is for some bowls and wind chimes that I hope to list tomorrow, I've been playing around with the glaze this week, trying different mixes with mixed results, I have a feeling your all going to learn much about my taste in colours from my ceramics, yes I enjoy the more natural colours when producing my lampwork beads, but with these glazes I can produce far more colours by mixing my own glazes and those sold by the supplier, there must be thousands of combinations to play with.

   This small bowl shows how I enjoy both glazed areas like here inside the piece alongside areas left natural like on the outside with only the raw clay to form the decoration, I know most if not all of you won't like my taste in colours and designs and small bowls like this are not the kind of item that sells, but I just enjoy making them and the idea is that these smaller items give me lots more pieces to experiment on, I keep getting asked when I'll be listing bowls but to be honest I'm really not sure my work is good enough to offer for sale just yet, but we'll see what I produce over the next couple of weeks.
   On this piece I love the textures on the unglazed areas, where the glaze runs and mixes with some slight coats of slip or oxides, there is something about this and the rich turquoise blue inside that brings the piece together, to me it's not just about colours but also feel, with my lampwork I don't really get to form textures that often apart from etching and the odd use of baking powder, so I guess ceramics feed me that drug that I long for with glass.
   Well I guess I better leave you all to enjoy the rest of the evening and fingers crossed we get that brighter day we were promised tomorrow.