We spent the summer in Tahoe, and each night the sunset made a colorful background for silhouetted pine trees that became the inspiration for these mugs. Occasionally, we would venture to Lake Tahoe’s shoreline and watch the mountains across the lake turn to silhouettes against a colorful sky, so some mugs have mountains across the bottom punctuated by silhouetted pines. The technical question that I wanted to answer with this project is “how do underglazes change when covered by my clear glaze?” As a painter, I prefer the immediacy of the brush strokes and the saturation of raw underglazes on pottery, but as a potter I recognize the need for a clear glaze to make a mug durable and dishwasher safe.