Celebrating another Mugshot Monday with some of my newest “hybrid mugs” fresh from my recent soda firing. Hard to believe that art fair season starts in just over a month away… and these mugs will be coming with me!!! First up?… the Schaumburg Prairie Arts Festival in Memorial Day weekend.

Well, here they are… another quick batch of hybrid mugs!
Drying overnight on a slightly elevated plastic grid hoping they dry faster…
as I’m hoping to get them into a bisque kiln tomorrow!!!
The sooner the better as I need them out with time to glaze & wad
for next weekend’s soda kiln firing!!!

Adding some color with flashing slips that will react in the soda kiln when these get fired next weekend! Wouldn’t know it now… but these “should” turn orange! Fingers crossed…

Handles on! We now have another batch of “hybrid mugs”… a combination of wheelthrown & handbuilding techniques. Next up… some flashing slips to add some color that will be enhanced during the soda-firing process next weekend.

Each one a different pattern… a different texture… a different hybrid mug in the making!
Thanks to a wide assortment of texture handrollers from MKM Pottery Tools!

Another 10×10 CHALLENGE… this time trying to crank out another batch of my hybrid mugs in the next couple days! My next soda kiln is just over a week away… and I hope to get them in. These are the bottom wheelthrown “bases”… more than ten before 10:00am!

A very sad Mugshot Monday… when a favorite hybrid mug meets a tickle-fight foot mixed with a little gravity! Looks like the tickle-fight loser will be buying you a new mug very soon Allyn! Thanks for sharing your grief & anguish.

Looks like Allyn is enjoying her new Valentine’s Day gift! A texured & soda-fired hybrid mug purchased by her loving husband in time for the big day! And in time for today’s Mugshot Monday!

Just another batch of hybrid mugs done & drying… waiting for a bisque kiln some time soon!

One last thing before they dry… I added a layer of colored flashing slip to my batch of hybrid mugs. At some point, these mugs will be soda-fired so they should change to shades of oranges & yellows during the atmospheric firing.