It’s almost like Christmas morning when I have new work in a slowly cooling kiln. There is waiting and hoping and a whole lot of impatient fretting (“is it time yet? how about now?”). The two temperatures to remember are 450 degrees and 300 degrees. At 450 I can crack […]
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I am a bad blogging-artist. Well, maybe a decent artist, but a bad blogger? I’d much rather be in the studio CREATING and with my hands in the clay, then trying to remember how to work my blog interface. My goal for this summer is to actually start using my […]
Well damn. I was so excited about the ease of application for the new dipped glazes I tried in this load of stuff. At first peek into the kiln, it looks like 3 of the new glazes did fine.. but the one I was super excited about (it’s supposed to […]
When I was in school studying ceramics I did an entire year long focus on glaze chemistry. Weighing and mixing and experimenting with all sorts of random chemical compounds. It was a lot of fun, but then I did have the schools fully equipped glazing lab to play in. After […]
*sigh* It’s 5:15pm and even though I’ve been working all afternoon I still feel like I haven’t accomplished much of anything. I’ve been plugging away at getting information entered onto my website, finding links for many of my artist friends, putting in the information, checking the links. How can it […]
I offloaded the bisque ware from the kiln this morning. Most of it turned out wonderfully. I did have one cup that exploded and the tiny shards of that hit a couple of the Greek inspired pieces that were going through their glaze firing and attached themselves to the glaze. […]
My kiln is set to high and I have about 4 more hours before it finishes bisque firing then another 12 hours before I can open and offload my pottery. This waiting game is always the second hardest for me. Hardest is waiting on a glaze firing. At least for […]