The glaze results are not great. The glaze was too thickly applied and the second batch of glaze was thicker than the glaze used for the bowls. The bowls white glaze has turn out fine, the blue glaze use on top has bled maybe because of the length of time the white glaze was allowed to dry (overnight). I read in a ceramics book that the 2nd colour should be applied when the 1st glaze has just gone off. I like the bowl anyway the bleeding looks quite nice like ink on plaster or anything porous. The pots look like the glaze has melted off. The glaze must have been way too thick. I like the effect on the striped pot though. Unfortunately there is also crawling and patches. This was probably due to the thickness of glaze and maybe dust. The mistakes to rectify are to : wipe the pots with a damp sponge, build up layers of glaze, don't apply so thickly, don't leave to dry for so long. So far as the firing I don't know the implications. I defiantly think it was the thickness of glaze. Though I have learnt how to do a nice waterfall cascading glaze for the future! The reason the attractive stripes remained in sort of formal lines is because the wide shoelace I used to mask made a superficial impression in the white undercoat. Also in the book I refered to you can apply glaze thickly for certain effects and then score to stop running completely.
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