From there you're free to make whatever you want. I got it into my head to make a series of plates with silly sayings on them. I made a poor choice for the glaze and didn't read the label to find out that it wasn't food safe.
So not only are they a bit odd to look at you can't eat a salad off of them. But someday I may have a use for them as saucers under some pots!
The next one came out much better.
But this was the last of a bottle of glaze and I scraped the bottom and watered it down and then got really strange bubbles all through the next plate. I reglazed it with a similar color and it got better but it was still odd.
I learned a great deal while making these and had a lot of fun which made them very worthwhile if not very successful.
Having mastered the art of draping a piece of clay over a mold I made a series of small plates (jewelry dishes) for Christmas gifts.
And then I tried making a slightly curved leaf. I really like the way this one came out with a layer of dry brushed glaze on the veins of the leaf.
Along in there I also made a stab at a tile which didn't even warp!
Towards the end of the summer we had a class on firing bits of glass into the glaze in pieces. I decided to make a series of test bowls to try out some combinations of glazes and different kinds of glass.
When you add glass to a piece it crazes a bit so the piece is no longer food safe. So these bowls are just decorative.
Note to self, make sure the bowl is totally level before you fire it when you plan to add glass.
This is my favorite of the lot.
To finish off the last of my red clay, I made 4 red bowls with a glaze called Emerald Falls. It runs really badly so we only use it on the inside of things and on red clay the emerald green looks nearly black.
And with the very last of my red clay I made one more plate, this time using a lace placemate for texture.
