New glaze

As I mentioned before, my last kiln load was different than I had hoped. It had a few good pieces, but many bad ones. After that one I thought about what might have caused the results and it all boiled down to glaze application and thickness. Yesterday we mixed up a new glaze called raspberry and glazed another kiln load. The kiln was cool enough to open when I got home from work and I was pleased to see how things turned out. The only new glaze shown below is the raspberry. The other is the coppery green I am working with.  When it is thicker it is green. Where it is thin it turns bronze.

It's interesting to note that the raspberry glaze is actually a spearmint green color before it is fired. It ends up that color because of what happens to tin oxide and chrome oxide when they interact during the firing.

Vase - 5 " tall, 5 1/2' wide

Bowl - 9" wide

Vase - 5 1/2" tall