There’s nothing quite like that first pour into a hand-made cup. Layering a white glaze with a floating iron glaze creates depth and surprising colours.
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I‘m not much into decorating my pieces, I‘m not really good at drawing or anything. But I love doong tape resist and then just letting the glaze do it‘s thing. This semi-matching pair made me so happy, when it came out of the oven. It’s just one glaze each 🤯🤯
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Glaze has a gentle mind of its own. I taped this mug carefully before glazing to create a grid pattern — where the tape sits, no glaze is absorbed and the bare clay is revealed. If you use a stable glaze, you might get a perfect grid, but I’m partial to slightly runny glazes (no risk, no fun). A runny glaze doesn’t just create a beautiful contrast between the glaze and the raw clay — it also builds layers of different thicknesses. At the top and along the sides, the glaze thins as it flows downward, often producing a lighter color. At the bottom it gathers and pools, bringing out deeper color and stronger glaze effects. With this copper & rutile glaze, the thinner areas shift toward yellow, while the thicker sections are a deeper turquoise.
I expected some movement, but was surprised to see that on one side the glaze stayed mostly within the grid, while it ran a lot on the other side, almost completely hiding the horizontal lines. I suspect, this side was facing the heating elements of the kiln. Glaze gets more runny at higher temperatures and even a small difference, like kiln position can have an impact. I like that this mug tells the story of its firing.
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Such a good drip 🫣 I had to do a whole photo shoot, she looks good from all angles
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DM me if you‘re interested in any of the pieces. Pick up or delivery in Barcelona, mail also available.
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Know that this is where my mind goes if you ever see me drifting off. I find myself practicing pulls randomly in my head and when I close my eyes to sleep at night — more often than not — I’m right back here.
I thought I’d show you a little bit of my process. If all goes well, I’ll be back with the finished piece.
Thank you @gresbcn for the laughter, company, beautiful space and this yummy yellow light.
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Sporty cup no. 3: This glaze is such a tease. Sometimes it comes out perfect. Then it suddenly gives me lots of blisters. Here, everything worked out. Although, I applied a thinner layer, so it only shows its real colours in the places where the glaze pools — I love that contrast. The color comes from titanium and copper.
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My friends started calling this stripy design my “sporty” cups 🏃♀️, so this is how I think of it, too, now. This one wears another one of my glazes — iron and rutile create the melty chocolate tone. This glaze was kind of an accident. I wanted to make a rutile blue — the right balance of rutile and iron can shift their typical yellow-brown shades into rich blues. But I must have gone too hard on the iron. I kinda like it more than the original plan 😏
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Experimenting with my own glazes has been so rewarding ✨ This one’s a rutile green — copper + rutile magic. On lighter clay like @sio2.clay PRAI, it has a soft olive tone. But here it’s interacting with the higher amount of iron and manganese in the more golden clay PRGI — suddenly it’s blue. I don’t think glazes will ever cease to amaze me.
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