First test cup

Locally harvested materials only
Locally harvested materials only




Coarse Yellow Feldspar along with coarse and fine Southside Granite. That’s it. Applied very thickly.
A lot is happening here. I’ve got my standard cone 11clay mix with kaolin slip around the bottom and red clay slip sprayed over the rim. Then there’s raw, very coarse yellow feldspar sprinkled over a spot and covered by…

2 glazes over that one, the liner is a dark runny, translucent, red clay based glaze and the rim as been dipped in something like Snow White. So the stiff white glaze breaks over the runny dark glaze while it…

Interior is Southside Granite, exterior is Black Rivulets. Three small sea shells has been used as temporary feet while the cup rested on them on its side. We can see the Black Rivulets glaze pool underneath.