Red Pepper

This is a ceramic red pepper made from a 2-part plaster mold – yet another example of what I’ve been doing in my mold-making class. The first time I glazed one of these peppers, it was in a single red glaze that came out very flat and uninteresting. For the next one, I dipped it in the red glaze first, then dipped it in an amber brown glaze and got this weird mottling effect that I like a lot. On some parts of the surface, you can see all the way through the 2 layers of glaze to the clay body underneath. Very cool!