Very dramatic colours today when the sun breaks through. Stoneware with local bone ash glaze.

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Nice colour combo on this thrown and altered porcelain vase. The bare porcelain flashes orange and the glaze is the perfect complement. The glaze is 50% granite, 20% quartz, 20% limestone, and 10% clay, all sourced from nearby.

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Four new mugs with 100% local glaze.

1 - Nuka wood ash glaze on local stoneware
2 - Sea salt shino on PSH 580 stoneware
3 - ??? (maybe tenmoku) on local stoneware
4 - Bone ash glaze (with actual fin whale skull bone ash!) on PSH stoneware

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Ten rock samples ready to be analyzed for (hopefully) iron, chromium, manganese, titanium, nickel, zirconium and other glaze colourants.

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Here's my finished teapot. Made from foraged local materials!

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Happy Labour Day weekend from the home of the labour movement in NL, Port Union. I'm fiddling about in the studio today, but definitely not working too hard. Just slowly unloading and admiring these new #wildclay #wildglaze pots.

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Look at that colour! Wild glaze with copper-bearing basalt on local clay.

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A few weeks ago I did a little excursion to hunt for ceramic materials. On this trip I mostly focused on metal minerals that can be used to color glazes. First stop was Pigeon Island where I had heard that titanium ores (rutile) could be found.

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Earthenware glaze with found/foraged colourants:
A: none
B: iron oxide (from beach junk)
C: copper oxide (from discarded plumbing)
D: high manganese sandstone
E: high copper basalt
F: blue glass
G: green glass
H: lots of copper oxide

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Quick and dirty glaze chemistry lesson for wild glazes foragers. Pick one from each category, no duplicates.

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Day 2 of Forage and Fire is in the books. We spent the day hiking beaches, collecting rocks, and digging clay.

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Stoneware with 100% local shino glaze. Glaze made from clay, pyrophyllite, and Trinity Bay sea salt from the Newfoundland Salt Company.

This one will be for sale at the mug sale at Portage on Sunday.

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Finally home from HSAD and enjoying a spring day on the trail. Here's a mug from last firing - 100% #newfoundland #clay and #glaze, fired to cone 10.

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My class at HSAD really wanted to know more about #wildglaze so we made few tests.

Left: 33/33/33 clay/woodash/feldspar

Right: 50/50 clay/woodash

Pretty good results!

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Some super glaze tests came out of last week's wood firing. These are all wild local glazes, meaning I researched and harvested the materials myself. I am excited and a bit surprised by the variety in color, texture, and opacity.

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