Kiln placement is certainly an amazing thing. This being one of my pieces from the latest Ceramics class that I took, and as you will see nearly all the pieces look completely different from one another. This piece like all the others is unglazed on the outside. Well actually I lie with this one, on this cup I dipped my finger in the glaze and made a few streaks on the outside of the cup, but you can barely notice them unless you are specifically looking for them.
This piece though came out looking pure copper in color nearly the whole way around. None of the white/ green ash build up on the outside. The above picture shows the area that accumulated the most ash, which only give the slightest hint of the white ash build up that quite a few of my other piece are nearly covered in.
This is the bare side of the piece, which you can see two of those finger swipes with glaze on the outside, the rest is basically clay that was blushed by the fire, to a degree that it blends wonderfully with the rest of the piece.
I gave this cup a try yesterday, it preforms well enough, but something just doesn't feel quite right about using it. Proportions seem off in too many ways, lip is too thick, foot is too small, size and weight just in general seem off. It is fun to look at especially in what I captured nicely in the photo below. The interior of this cup is oddly mesmerizing.
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