Manganese oxide ceramics

https://moolric-ceramics.tumblr.com/ The blue is an oxide mix: 5 Cobalt oxide 4 Red Iron oxide 1 Manganese Dioxide Contrast this with my previous cobalt washed bowl, which just had cobalt carbonate in it. This mix gives a deeper, midnight blue. The oxides were mixed with water. I brushed it on, wiped off the excess and clear glazed over top and inside.

Vase circa 1960, by Hans Coper (1920-1981), an influential German-born British studio potter. Coper would characteristically throw his work on the potter's wheel, then alter and assemble pieces by hand to achieve the finished form. Thus, although made on the wheel, his work has a sculptural quality, but is always functional. The surfaces of his pots tend to be roughly textured and colored with oxides, especially manganese oxide

These are the pieces from my last post. They have now been glazed and covered in oxides to help create an decayed surface, inspired by eros...

Western Oxide Washes