The pottery lab where I throw started carrying Dave’s Porcelain (Laguna Cone 10), and so I figured I’d give it a try! Thus far my favorite is still Coleman Porcelain (Aardvark Cone 10).
Throwing with Dave’s Porcelain (Dave’s from here on), was fine, nothing special, nothing bad. The finished product after high firing is rather gray.
Here’s one of the finished product: “Why not” SML 11/19.
*I’m still trying to figure out how to take good pictures of pottery…
1st glaze layer 
Before high fire 
After high fire
About this piece- I threw this rather thick; I wasn’t sure what I’d be doing with this later. It is about 4.25″ tall x 5″ wide. I made the cutouts with a scalpel. For the first glaze layer, I painted petals using Zack’s Black, stems using Oribe, and then dipped the whole thing in Jeff’s Red.
Fortunately or unfortunately, the 1st layer of glaze ran a lot, and now the ‘flowers’ look simply like wonky elongated hearts! At the top of where the Zack’s Black begins to run there are streaks of Navy, gradually running into a deep red, and decreased the ‘speckling’ effect. This would be a good combination for some special details. The area where the Jeff’s Red is over the Oribe also appears to have some running, but more of a translucent one, with some pale blue mixed in, almost like space pictures of galaxies with some stars. If I want the first layer of glaze to be more prominent I’m going to have to use a less runny glaze over it.
I will probably use this as a candle holder, or maybe a plant holder (with an inner pot). Or maybe a napkin holder? Or maybe I’ll give it away and let someone else decide!
The above is high fired functional ware (durable and food safe), and I’ll include the only little bit of raku done at the end of 2019.
Raku is typically decorative; it is not watertight nor food safe (the glaze contains chemicals that can leach out). The ones below were thrown as closed forms using Soldate 60 (Laguna Cone 10).
Before firing 
After firing
There’s always so much variability in the final outcome, but in case it’s useful, the glazes on the two are applied in the same order. The smaller piece was fired and exposed to oxidation while the larger one was fired and exposed to reduction.
The glazes, starting at the white crackle (the sector that looks white with fine lines on the large piece and just white on the small piece) and moving clockwise: White crackle, Copper sand, Gloss green, Brett’s shiny copper, Ferguson blue, Seth’s luster, R-2 ocean green, Raku red, Teadust, Pale aqua luster. The diamond at the center of the large piece, I forgot to note- maybe Yellow iron? Finally, the black specks on the oxidized piece is the result of me throwing on some sugar when it came out of the kiln.
I always look forward to seeing the end result of the final firing; so much is unpredictable that it feels kinda magical.