clay: evolution of a pot

Yesterday I had 45 minutes in the afternoon for clay. I put the three speckled buff plates in the kiln, painted wax resist into the text of two cocktail cups, and glazed a porcelain bisque plate with pink underglaze in the maker's mark on the bottom and fire opal overglaze on the top. While pulling out bisque, I noticed my sea mugs and pulled them out. Here are two mugs I did not sell at the Christmas show.    

In the photo above, the mug at the left is just Jim Bob overglaze while the mug at the right has been under glazed with medium blue and sky blue and then overglazed with a clear matte and fired to cone 5. Someone at the Christkindl said her surfer son will like his new waves sushi platter, but likes coffee mugs that don't have handles. I thought, oh yeah, I like to just cradle my coffee in two hands too. I also like the look of no handles. 

I under glazed both mugs in ultramarine blue and sky blue and probably touched the crests with white white underglaze and then clear matte glaze before a cone 5 firing. I've one mug in the bisque cupboard that's been under glazed in the same colors as above but set aside for a cone 10 firing. And so I'll continue evolving these sea mugs for a higher firing with Bmix with sand and play with cobalt oxide, which I think will be more subtle.