Here are all of the glazes shown on little cups. The top two rows are oxidisation fired, and the bottom two are reduction fired. The reduction firing makes a less perfect finish. I don't know which version I will do. I am not very excited by any of these colors. I am interested in raku firing, but apparently it is too dangerous for an elaborate piece, because of the quenching or something. Anyway, I don't think any of those are right. I don't know what I want it to look like. I planned to do it all black but everyone says that I should highlight the details more than that.
I don't know. I think red would be excellent, but the school reds are so brown, I would want a bright red. So I am leaning toward glazing in black with green accents, such as the suckers.
I spent 3 hours today digging out and refining all of those little rectangles. This is a good view of the crab climbing out of it.
I was going to wuss out and not do suckers on the tentacles because it seemed overwhelming, but then I was inspecting the tentacles to see how many suckers I would need and only a few places had the suckered side in view so I only had to do about 12 suckers. And weirdly, they suctioned onto the tool I was sticking them on with.
We are all done with wet clay (THANK GOD) because there are only 2 weeks left in the course. I still have to glaze everything and then we are making a lost wax bronze piece. I am kind of exited but there are so many possibilities that I don't know what to do.
Update: I used slip to paint the claws and crab legs black and the inlay on the body yellow, and the suckers pink. This way, if it comes out badly i can glaze over the whole thing in black.
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