Spearmint and Licorice Tests

Here are the results from the last firing. I learned that a lot of the beauty from the previous round did come from the extra thick oatmeal. So, in the future, I think I will double dip the base glaze before applying the ash glaze. Each image is the base glaze with blue frasca, oatmeal frasca, field mouse brown frasca and spearmint frasca from left to right.

oatmeal



field mouse brown



licorice

The licorice tests are interesting to me. The ash glaze seems to have had the affect of fluxing the licorice in such a way that only very little glaze was left at the top of the pot. I've not yet decided if I actually like it.

I think I really like the spearmint quite a bit. I'm tempted to try another blue, perhaps using colourants from bright sky blue. Or, perhaps just adding some rutile to the regular frasca blue.

I'm not sure yet what I will try from here. Perhaps a different ash glaze recipe?