My friend & fellow potter Greg Schultz gave me a container of slip. Apparently it’s just “some mud” that he dug up out of the ground and “processed” into a slip. This was the first time we were trying it in the soda kiln firing atmosphere. We assumed it would flux out pretty well. Maybe too well. So here are two test tiles that got a good amount of soda. The one on the left got more soda, the right one less soda.

And here’s one “test” mug which I painted the top portion with Greg’s new “mud” slip. It fluxed out really well, “broke” in all the right places and kind of has a temoku glaze appearance after soda firing. If you look closely, there’s also some crystals forming it the slipped areas too.  Love ’em. I now need to do another test where it would get hit with a lot less soda. To see if a drier section of the kiln might give us a different effect. This mug was on the very top shelf where things tend to get a LOT of soda on them. But so far… very encouraging!