I fired my kiln this past Saturday and got some pretty sweet stuff out of it (also some minor glaze issues, but nothing catastrophic & more good than bad, so phew!). Especially happy with some of these mug inside/handle glazes...
& also pretty thrilled with how vibrant the underglaze stayed!!
image description: an unglazed porcelain sculpture of a fox being held in its maker's hand. The fox is sitting and looking forward with a grin. It is painted pastel pink and orange; its cheek has a red star on it, and its tail has a red heart on the end.
So I mentioned glaze issues from my last kiln firing & here's one of them. I am SO GLAD that I followed my gut* & tossed these selkie sculptures onto little trays at the last minute because two of them stuck and would have messed up my kiln shelves if they had been tray-less!!!! TERRIFYING!!!!
Thankfully I can most likely dremel off the glaze drips from the two that stuck and free them from these ugly slapdash trays (a bunch of pals on insta suggested I leave them like this & make them trinket dishes, but I can't emphasize enough how unpleasant these trays are, being plain unglazed/unrefined clay that's been toasted in multiple firings). Stay tuned for news on how the stuck selkies fare!
*by 'followed my gut' I actually mean a combo of that + knowing that one of the glazes on them has crystals that make those rad spots but also make the glaze run more in the kiln, so not letting them go straight on the kiln shelf is probably always the best move