So many different lessons in this little pot... It started off as a lidded jar demo, then morphed into a lesson on the many variations of shino - vertical stripes are wax resist, horizontal stripes are an iron oxide wash, both applied over the glaze as soon as it was dry to the touch. The lid has more orange because it's thinner, so absorbed less water and has a thinner coat of glaze. Lots of carbon trapping, due to being glazed a week before firing, so the soda ash could migrate to the surface, and being placed in the top of a down draft kiln.... And the final lesson, how to remove stubborn lids with a little rinsing, freezing and tapping with a wooden mallet is yet to come..... #ceramics #pottery #demo #shinot #carbontrap #somanythingstolearn #doaneceramics (at Doane University)
