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Comment by juli long on November 2, 2013 at 3:29pm

George,

 Of all the photos, I like this glaze combo the best,  and the ones below from 2009, they shine! I love all the pots with succulents too. I am a gardner, but have never made pots for my plants, probably because they are out side.

I also love the "tall mug" and its glaze combo.

juli

Comment by George Lewter on October 14, 2013 at 12:37pm

It's funny you should ask, 'is it reproducable' (likely yes). I was actually trying to reproduce the effect shown in the following picture from 2009.

I mis-remembered the ordering of the layers, and this time put the Rutile Matte on top instead of the C Harris Temoku. As you see the the mixing effects are quite different, depending on which glaze is layered on top.

Comment by Robert Coyle on October 14, 2013 at 11:06am

Think you could do it again?... it's beautiful. Could develop into the world famous  "Lewter technique".

Comment by George Lewter on October 12, 2013 at 10:03pm

This was simply bad technique that opened the way for a happy accident. The Rutile Matte had been in the bucket for a couple of years since the last use, and had evaporated off enough water that it was pretty concentrated. I dipped the mug in the bucket lapping over the C Harris Temoku, wiped the bottom, and set it down to dry. I noticed the overlapped layer was shrinking and cracking badly. Instead of washing it all off and starting over, I just rubbed and compressed the glaze to the mug to fill in the cracks, and then fired it. I was lucky that all those drifting continental plates didn't simply fall off and become a kiln shelf disaster.