Testing out Coloured Lichen Glaze

I wanted to see what the lichen glaze would look like if coloured, and thought that it would be best to do this on a white clay body. I had a large bisqued sphere of Ashraf Hanna stoneware left over from another sculpture and had kept this to utilise as a test piece for glaze.

I made up a batch of Linda Bloomfield's Lichen Glaze (see glaze note book) and then added different stains which I applied in random lines over the sphere.

Whilst in the glaze room I recalled a discussion about the effect of Nephelyine Syenite added to clay body, that it can look very oozy, runny and gelatinous. I had seen Gavin Webster our AA2A artist use this previously in his work so I decided to try it out on the top of the piece, it's very strange material to apply weird thixotropic properties. Fingers crossed for some interesting results.