clay: charcoal kurinuki box

Clay Body: Aardvark Charcoal

Glaze: Copper Red

Method/Firing: Hand built/Kurinuki, Cone 5

 

With this studio glaze, I'm never sure if the outcome will be mostly dark red with few streaks of turquoise green and blue. On Bmix, yes you'd see a lot more red, but on this dark clay, only tiny glimpses of that iron red.

  

And I love this little box made from scrips and scraps of black clay from which I made a lot of dinner plates. I compressed the scrap clay into a cube and then used a big loop tool to hollow out of the interior and a paint scraper to chisel out ridges on the exterior.

 

The blue with a creamy cast and hints of that red underneath which verge on turning purple just mesmerizes me.