clay: speckled buff with white gloss and peppermint creme and copper red

Clay Body: Laguna Speckled Buff

Glazes: Clay Life's Majolica (white gloss), Peppermint Creme, Copper Red

Method/Firing: Wheel thrown/Cone 6  

I saw someone else's speckled buff pot with a bluish cast I liked so much that I looked at the test tiles to discover what glazes produced this color.

I like it. In retrospect, I wish I had scraped the heavy spots of glaze or maybe fan brushed even heavier applications of the Peppermint Creme and Copper Red. I poured in the Majolica into the interior and then poured it out and dipped the rim too in the bucket.

I had dipped the bottom of the bowl into first Peppermint Creme and then into the Copper Red, letting the glazes dry in between dips. My counts of one-one thousand, two-one thousand, three-one thousand were too fast, maybe a second or two longer would not have resulted in the glaze being too thin or the transparency of little color between the white and blue bands on the side of the bowl.

However, I do like the application of the white gloss in the interior. Pouring the glaze into the bowl and then rotating it to get the glaze to sit near the edge of the rim, and even to do it again to get it even all over allows that white glaze to sit longer than the 3 second dip of the exterior of the bowl.

If I try this glaze combination again, I'm going to take the fan brush to adhere more coats of the Peppermint Creme and Copper Red.