Recently I made my first teapots ever, and maybe my last, because they are very involved, with many steps, and I don't even know many people who actually use teapots, do you? I also continued making tiny animals, or Ceranimals™, as I'm calling them, haha, since I cannot resist a portmanteau.
I've also found some glaze combinations I really like, that look organic but on purpose, if that makes sense.
I take a class once a week at the Hui No'eau Visual Arts Center, in Makawao here on Maui, currently with an excellent teacher named Jennifer Owen. The Hui has a large gas kiln that fires to cone 10 (around 2300 degrees Fahrenheit) reduction (reduction firing means there's less oxygen in the kiln, and as a result the glazes can do funky things and turn colors they won't during an oxidation firing).
