#midfire

My wisteria vessel is complete!

The surface is so textured. The lattice, flowers, and leaves are raised, adding depth and making it so satisfying to touch. The lattice was water etched, the flowers and leaves slip trailed, and all of it carefully underglazed (except for the bare clay of the lattice). The inside was glazed with Amaco honey flux, smokey merlot, and chun plum. Pictured here with a wooden lavender kit I assembled.

Hi! Thank you for the question. ^^ AND thanks for being a fan of my work!

Almost all of my work is on mid-fire white stoneware. I use both a combination of food-safe commercial glazes (amaco brand cherrry blossom pink and their lavender, deep sienna speckle (it’s red), matte yellow, a couple of greenish Spectrum glazes) and glazes mixed at the studio (french blue, tyler amber, glossy white, glossy clear, floating blue, cream rust, glossy celadon, matte green, once in a blue moon I’ll try matte blue)

Here’s the ones I use the most:

Celadon

Basically, my safety glaze. I used it a lot in the beginning, and I still frequently return to this glaze for being a stable, non-runny, reliable, predictable, stress-free, drama-free, surprise-free glaze. This glaze is also very well-known in Korea. It can look teal if applied thick, so I try to make sure to apply it thin to get that green hue.

French Blue

A glossy warm blue glaze, almost as stable and flawless as celadon. It combines nicely with floating blue or tyler amber to create dark green overlaps. It creates an oil-spot patterning when overlapped on white, or the white glaze vanishes if it’s applied over blue. (glaze formula for glossy white varies from studio to studio, so this isn’t guaranteed to be the case everywhere.)

Tyler Amber

Glossy warm brown glaze. It emphasizes the grain in the clay. It has a fun property where if it’s applied over french blue, it’ll turn green; and if it’s overlapped with the glossy white, it turns the white tan in color (it happened on the lip in this cup) but doesn’t budge where the white glaze is. When it overlaps with floating blue, it mutes the blueness of the floating blue slightly. Overall reliable worry-free glaze.

Floating Blue

Blue where it’s applied thicker, bronze where it’s applied thinner. A little runny but very stable and predictable. It’s my favorite glaze to use if I’m making a cup with a fish or ocean related motif.

Amaco “Cherry Blossom” Pink

My favorite pink glaze after trying out 4 other kinds of pink glazes. The color burns away if the kiln fires above cone 6 though. Mostly I use this glaze as an accent rather than for the whole cup. Plays nice with other glazes, doesn’t do anything too exciting like pitting, crawling, or crazing.

Terrazzo PG618

My new favorite new glaze! It’s opaque and it looks cookies-and-cream delicious. Or like a color-inverted night sky? Completely glossy, food-safe, plays well with most other glazes.

I try to tag each cup post with the names of the glazes I used on that cup. Check out the tags #celadon #french blue #tyler amber #floating blue #matte green #amaco cherry blossom pink when you see them to see a bunch of pots with those same glazes.