I've been struggling with how to talk about the new pots from the last wood firing. I think that it isn't so much that I can't speak about them or don't have an opinion but rather that I have a huge amount to say about them and can't seem to pear it down to a manageable mouthful. Here are a few of the pots and I'll try to be brief. The first is a sweet little tea pot which was one of only a few of my pieces that ended up with a blast of cooling crystals on the fireside face. We crash cooled the kiln for about 20 minutes before starting the reduction cooling cycle. This was probably more an over sight than a mistake as we bunged up the kiln. This produced a crusty crystalline structure on the surface of many of the pots on the fire face of the first shelf.
These are the fireside and leaside of this bottle. Notice how there was lots of bounce back of the flame on the back of the bottle to give the fantastic reduction cooled swirls. These pics don't do the depth of colour in the surface justice. There are reds, yellows greens and blues and mingling together to form a massive amount of surface variation and movement.
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