Spodumene Pitcher

I finally found a small block of time to photograph some of my new work. I’ll post my favorites over the next few weeks or so, but for starters, I thought I’d show the tall pitcher I made for the fourth assignment in my ceramics class, glazed in Spodumene and fired in the studio’s gas kiln. It seemed fitting to choose a glaze that was on the warm side in keeping with the palette my friend Colleen used when she painted a portrait of this pitcher before it was fired. Spodumene has become one of my favorite gas-fired glazes at the studio, mainly because it goes on easy, never runs and has great variation and color. I’m trying to fire as much work as I can in the studio’s gas kiln before my class ends in a few weeks. There are some amazing results that only reduction firing can achieve. After that, it will be back to purely oxidation and electric firing in my basement, which has its own merits and beauty.