{"id":2594,"date":"2015-12-11T21:37:17","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T12:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/?p=2594"},"modified":"2015-12-11T21:37:17","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T12:37:17","slug":"fall-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/2015\/12\/fall-2015.html","title":{"rendered":"Fall 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

has been busy.<\/p>\n

I’ve gotten pretty far behind keeping up with the blog, falling into the bad habit of making small posts to Facebook. One of my areas of increased effort over the next year will be to work more on maintaining the blog, and getting it more integrated with other forms of social media. Trying to keep track of them all is like trying to herd cats.
\nI had made one promise to show before\/after pictures for a couple of pieces, the first of which is the slab\/paddle built sake chiller w\/ feet and lugs:<\/p>\n

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raw unglazed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Fired piece, Chosen Karatsu style glaze. Matchbook for scale.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Underside detail. Fired on shells, feet not touching the shelf.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Glaze detail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The other thing I’ve been working on since early this year is getting a usable kohiki\/clear glaze combination, because for some reason a lot of customers have been requesting white work. They have also been requesting black, so I’ve been working on getting a reliable semi matte black glaze. Mission not quite accomplished, but I feel I’m most of the way there. Here is the kohiki I’ve come up with and I am happy with it:<\/p>\n

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Kohiki cups. Cup on the left is unused. Middle has been used a bit, and right has been used a lot. The patina is beautiful in my opinion, and the fineness of the crackle is something I’ve been wanting for a long time in my work.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Various guinomi from 2015, mostly from the fall firing. Guinomi make great gyokuro drinking cups.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Seabirds on white.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The other thing I have started doing is Japanese kana inspired brushwork, except with English. This cup is decorated with vertical English writing, a Goethe quote I like: “Whatever you can do, or think you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.” One of the other said: “Don’t be a dick.” These were more popular than I had anticipated and are currently sold out. Definitely making more!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here are some of the pieces with the new black glaze. It seems to look best thin, and as with most glazes looks nicer over interesting wild clays rather than processed clays.<\/p>\n

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Type 1 semi matte black Katakuchi with black lacquer repairs.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Type 1 semi matte black dish.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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matte type 2: two black glazes layered, makes a fatter glaze surface.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

has been busy. I’ve gotten pretty far behind keeping up with the blog, falling into the bad habit of making small posts to Facebook. One of my areas of increased effort over the next year will be to work more on maintaining the blog, and getting it more integrated with other forms of social media. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,12],"tags":[88,27,145,144,24,65,5,35,139,62,22,30,21,29,41,143,106,14,74],"class_list":["post-2594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-glazes","category-pottery","tag-ceramics","tag-chosengaratsu","tag-clay","tag-glazes","tag-guinomi","tag-japanese","tag-karatsu","tag-karatsupots","tag-mike-martino","tag-noborigama","tag-pottery-2","tag-sake-cup","tag-taku","tag-tea-cup","tag-wood-fired","tag-wood-kiln","tag-workshop-in-taku","tag-14","tag-74"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_2518.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1FneS-FQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2594"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2603,"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594\/revisions\/2603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}