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The soda ash or sodium carbonate creates a red ‘blushing’ effect on the clay body during firing. After the soda wash I lightly apply one or two different glazes with a sponge to give it color complexity but still allow the blushed details of the carvings to come through.
Functional stoneware thrown on the wheel and hand-carved
An exploration in carving and glaze technique for functional ceramics. Inspired by mandalas, I carved designs into stoneware bowls and wanted to find a glaze application that could enhance the patterns in the clay body rather than obscure them. Here I used a diluted soda ash solution on the clay body before glazing.
Ceramics
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