Ash Glazes

Blue Frost

Blue Lichen Microcrystalline

Cabernet

Celadon Blue

Chinese Blue

Chinese Red

Cobalt Blue

Cobalt Crystalline

Copper Penny

Dogwood White

Frogskin

Lily Pad Green Microcrystalline

Midnight Blue Microcrystalline

Mirror Black

Multi-Layer Glazes

While Ben III was in college in the 1990’s, he was introduced to a spraying technique with an air driven spray gun that some potters use to build up layers of glazes on the clay surface. With some experimenting, he was able to create a variety of finishes using accents of three or four different colors and using an ash glaze as a top coat to blend or bleach the underlying colors. Some finishes are a base of iron yellow with cobalt blue or copper green covering with orange to silver developing from the overlapping colors. Each pot is unique. As a similar process to Natural Ash Glazes, Ben III frequently places these finishes in the wood kiln to accentuate the colors as well.