Here are a few pics of guinomi, 3 with regular rice straw white, and one with the Amakusa subbed rice straw white. With the Amakusa it is quite a bit more refractory. Totally different look, with more subtle mottled blues where the thickness is right.
Mike, beautiful glaze flow and I understand why your carvings on your guinomi were so exagerated on greenware.Turns out really nice and I love how it gives direction to the glaze.
Thanks Carmen,
Yeah, the madara really fills the texture up. I did brush a little iron rich clay into the combed surface, something for the madara to interact with. I use the same clay for slip trailing or brush deco under the madara. It keeps it's shape and interacts with the glaze at the same time. Iron oxide, oni-ita, or other iron pigment mixtures just tend to run uncontrolled and whatever image you drew gets lost…