first batch out of the kiln

I do apologise, as it has taken me a little while to upload these images!

I am very pleased with the way that these spools have turned out - the colours are lovely, and I was able to get the matt glaze on the end of the spools just about spot on :)

I used some 'vintage' Mayco underglazes, as they were nice pastel shades, and also had a gentleness about the colours as well - not ghastly opaque as some can be. But being a little on the older side, it's suggested on the label that the firing temp is only ~1040 degrees, and here I am putting them on porcelain and firing to 1260 degrees! Because they have been fired a bit higher than they would have preferred, the pale blue and the lavender (which you cannot tell is lavender as it has gone quite blue!) have developed quite a gloss. The peach and the pink have retained their nice matt-ness though.

I feel that the spools need a bit of a yellow and a geen, so I have popped some tests in the kiln of a trial 'vintage' yellow underglaze, as well as my attempt to make a pastel green underglaze. For that I mixed dark green and white underglazes together, as well as mixing some green body stain into white underglaze. Im actually quite looking forward to seeing how that have turned out!