clay: red sculpture and dixon sculpture flower bottles

I'm making flower vases with a bag of Dixon Sculpture red clay. I wonder though what color the clay will fire to because the raw groggy clay is similar in color to raw speckled buff. However, I had a last bit of Red Sculpture, and so that 1 pound or so went into the making of a flower bottle. Because I have test tile of a pattern, I added texture to the neck and the spout. I also round cut-out of the bottle opening to hold the cylinder as an accent for the outside of the bottle. Floating Green is too opaque for my liking. I'll look at the glaze samples of the Red Velvet at the studio and will likely choose Teal Appeal or True Celadon in combination with another glaze like Peppermint Creme. And then I made a shorter and stouter flower bottle with the Dixon Sculpture.      

Here's a short flower vase I made earlier than the bottles from Dixon Sculpture. I made another short vase with holes on the top but no cylinders too that's not pictured. I'll likely glaze all these pots with a gloss white. I like these brutalist flower vases more and more. They make me think of erosion with all their cracks and cragginess and shaggy bits.

And the very last of the Red Velvet went into the throwing of this bowl, which I trimmed. The interior and the slight rim is going to be glazed with Coyote Sun Drop--probably just enough glaze in the bottle to finish this bowl.

T'was a good weekend of clay, and I'm hoping to make it to the studio this evening to make one more vase. I'm thinking of making an Ikebana bowl where I hump the groggy clay slab over a plaster mold and then paint the interior with white slip (I've got a bottle of Snow somewhere) and then grab a fern leaf or find a fern stencil as some kind of accent inside the bowl. I've got a heavy Japanese pin frog to put at the bottom of the bowl to prop a single bloom.