And sometimes, glaze does NOT come out looking like you expected. I’m honestly a bit of an over planner when it comes to glaze. In this case I even made tests with the same clay before hand. But on the larger pieces, for some reason, the glaze bubbled quit a lot. My theory is that it’s the granular manganese in the clay body burning through the glaze. This is recycled clay from a group studio, and anything that isn’t white just goes into a ‘red’ bucket, which includes a speckled buff clay that has granular manganese in it. You can see some speckles that are behaving in the lid, as well as a cross section of bits of various clay bodies that weren’t totally blended together in wedging. Why it didn’t do the same in the smaller test...is a mystery. On the bright side, the whole point was for them to look like weathered, mossy wood, and as they aren’t meant for tableware where washing the surface would be an issue, the bubbling don’t make them unusable. But that won’t keep me from complaining about it on the internet!
