Gold and Green Pitcher

I love this pitcher. The glaze is on the body is a new glaze to me. It is call Red Gold by Coyote. It has a great way of giving different tones and visual textures on the body of the pitcher. Both inside and out the final look of the glaze looks as thought the glaze is running down the body of the pitcher. Which is exactly what it did during the firing process.

The final firing of my pottery is current a cone 6- that is a whopping 2,232 degrees! When the kiln reaches that temperature, the glaze melts and turns into molten glass. Depending on the glaze, various ingredients then float to the surface of the glaze and start to move with gravity's influence.

In fact, you can see on the foot of this piece a little dollop of glaze that that flowed down to the shelf. Instead of grinding the dollop of glaze off, I left it in place. I love how it adds to the overall feel of the pitcher. 

The glaze on the spout is called Pam's Green by Coyote. It is a similar glaze as the Red Gold in that it has a floating flow also. Instead of being a solid green, it has visual textures that create an interesting effect. Pam's green was also applied to the button on the spout, but over top of it I added two coats of Pansy Purple. The result is a subtle blue that gives just a touch more accenting than the color on the spout.

The handle is also a point of interest to me also. I kept it the same color as the body because I didn't want it to have detached look to it. By keeping it consistent withe the body of the pitcher, the Red Gold helps to keep the handle firmly "attached" to the body visually. But, it also enhances the personality of the pitcher by adding extra width and grace to the overall form.

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Purple and Gold Pitcher

 This is one of those projects that makes you excited to to get to each new step. This pitcher started out on the wheel. As the clay was pulled up it was formed into a vase with a slight pot belly. After drying out for a night the spout was then cut from a slab that had been rolled out flat and thin. A hole was cut into the body of the vase and the spout was applied over the hole. The final step in the building process was to hand pull the handle.

Then comes the slow waiting period of drying out. Each day I'd go out and pick up the pitcher to check on its progress. The week just crawled by. Finally it was bone dry and very fragile. Time to get it into the kiln for a bisque firing.

When it came out of the kiln there was nothing but joy as I looked it over. The piece was going to be wonderful. That's when I turned my eyes to the glaze shelf- What glazes was this pitcher crying out to be covered in? I knew I wanted the spout to accented. So i chose Coyote's Red Gold. The inside was glazed with Amaco's Blue Rutile. For the exterior body I did Coyote's Pansy Purple and then around the rim I added Coyote's Pam's Green glaze over the Pansy Purple. This cause the glaze around the rim to become a wonderful blue.

Detail of the glaze near the spout.

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