So Frustrating

I think "Susan Jones Blue" is yet another WRONG blue.  Of course I won't know for sure until I fire a tester, but in the bucket it does not look right.  Before I try again to replace the Denim Blue that everyone at my studio likes so much, we are going to have to use up some of these other things.  The number of glazes has gotten out of hand.

I'm really tired.  I processed glazes all day today.  Well, almost all day.  It was too many hours of glaze processing I can tell you that.  I managed to work on five of the glazes that Doby gave me this weekend and then I mixed up the newest attempt to replicate the Variegated Base Blue.  This is what jeans look like after hours upon hours of glaze hell.  I used to think that glazing pottery was glaze hell.  It's not.

Up close and in person you can actually see all the splatters and splashes on the pants and shoes. I just look kind of dirty in this picture. 

The good news is that I believe that I am going to be able to get all the things that Doby brought by back in a state that they are usable again.  Some of them were completed dried out like the one below. 

That's a metal ladle that I was using to break up the glaze before I dumped water in there.  Not all of them were this dry of course, but I thought this made a nice picture. 

This is the stack of buckets after I added water to all of them yesterday afternoon.  I have now emptied 5 of those.  So that's 5 down and 14 to go maybe.  Best not to think about that.  I've done Metallic Black, White Satin, Faux Salt, Mexico Pointe Blue, and M&M Clear Red.  Man, I wish I had some M&Ms right now.  With peanuts or almonds in them maybe. 

In my quest for the "RIGHT" blue, I've added two more blues to the L-O-N-G list of blue glazes that we have in our studio.  We have Floating Blue, Falls Creek Shino Blue, Variegated Blue, Variegated Base Blue, Mexico Point Blue, Bahamas Blue, and Mediterranean Mist.  Then there Sumkynda Blue  that Allen named when he mixed together the last bit of some blue that we once had in the past and the last bit of some white that no one used anymore.  People that's 8 blue glazes not counting the new one this week.  Yesterday I was calling it Fingers Crossed Blue - today, I'm not as optimistic. 

Mexico Point Blue and Bahamas Blue are two colors that I forgot that we had.  I'm really kind of happy to see Mexico Point Blue again.  I'll need to be sure to use that one soon.  Bahamas Blue has never been one that I like much.  In fact, I don't know that I've ever used it.