glazed ceramics - some ok and some not so ok

so here are the results... the testing phase has given some interesting results. some are good and some look like cake mixture has been stuck onto the clay - not so pretty. all a good learning curve though : )
i think i will re-glaze some and see what happens and i think what i have learned from this is that the porcelain really doesn't need much to enhance it at all
some of these will be utilised as jewelry and some mounted as wall pieces
oh, shots taken on iphone, not new camera
these are the stained porcelain beads. some of which then have a stained glaze (actually an extender with a powder stain mixed through it) and some have a clear gloss glaze and some are the stained clay fired to the higher temperature. you can see on the tulip in the middle that the stained extender is quite lumpy and flat. i may fire these again with a clear glaze over the top...

some of the tiles warped in the kiln as they were not flat but stacked sideways... they make for some interesting shapes and ideas for the future!
the linework was created by making my own tissue transfers. i generated a design on the computer, had it made up into a screen and then printed onto tissue paper and  applied the dried transfer to the clay (i did it with wet and dry clay to see what happened). so far they are not as clean as the commercial transfers but perhaps that is my doing

gluggy stain : ( and washed back glaze which looks a bit dirty on the white


rings - these i love because the porcelain is gorgeous. the detail it holds is lovely and a clear glaze on the unimpressed areas really highlights the patterns as well


xx
ps this was the really garish one that looks like green cake mixture and very bright pink icing - good for testing a few other things on!