Yep, that about sums it up.

A little pre-glazing fun from my partner-in-collaboration Cory McCrory!
Can’t wait to see these fired, glazed, shaded and fired again!!!

The latest batch of bottomless cylinders has stiffened up a bit while under plastic… so I did a little stamping!!! Surprise, huh?!

Next up? Slab bottom attachment… so the vases will actually hold water & flowers!!!

With an art fair next weekend, and a collaboration project in the works, I’ve really got to get these tiles bisqued. And I might as well fill the whole kiln with a “few” other things too, right?

Bisque Kiln Layer #1 – mugs, mugs and more mugs!!!

Bisque Kiln Layer #2 – assorted bowls, spoon rests, soap dishes and some tiles.

Bisque Kiln Layer #3 – mugs, soap dispensers, a teapot, and two large platters.

Bisque Kiln Layer #4 – more mugs, tumblers and a lot of tiles.

And here’s the BULK of my textured tiles for the collaboration pieces I’m doing with Cory McCrory. Packed tight, piled high with a bit of air space between the rows. Fingers crossed that the heat makes it into that dense pack of tiles okay?

Pastel colors turned to shimmering reflections. Colorful ripples.
And a big red ball “bouncing” on the horizon line.

And a really large “foam” finger on the beach… yep… the Chicago Art Institute
is celebrating its big win!… Voted #1 Museum In The World by TripAdvisor.com!!!

So this is just a quick reminder of what the bowls looked like after I glazed them with bubbles.
If you missed the earlier blog post explaining the whole process, just scroll back a bit.

And this is what the same bowls look like AFTER the cone 10 gas reduction  firing.
I must admit that I’m “pleased” with the results… but not thrilled. I like the effect. I like the process. I like the fun of playing with bubbles. I just think that I would have preferred a different base glaze choice. The glaze sample I was looking at was on stoneware with iron. My bowls were made with B-Clay. I didn’t take that into consideration during our class demo. So in my mind I was expecting the base glaze to be an orangey-rust-color like the sample… and not a crystal grayish-white shino!. Not that this is bad, it’s just not what I had pictured in my mind.

Base glaze of Lau Shino and glaze bubbles of Temoku.

Base glaze of Lau Shino and glaze bubbles of Rutile Blue.

Base glaze of Lau Shino and glaze bubbles of Antique White.

Big fun in the sky. Big clouds. Big sunrise. Big photo.

Sure, the sunrise was pretty amazing… but the clouds themselves weren’t too shabby either!!!

This morning started out pretty quiet with just a few pastel clouds in the sky.
Nothing too exciting. Just a quiet Saturday morning along the lakefront.

But then the clouds started to roll in… and the sky got a lot cooler!!!
More “obstacles” for the sun to play with. And you could see then moving in over the skyline.

And when the sun got to play with them… magic ensued.

I love when you can throw some pieces in the morning,
stamp them AND trim them all in one day!

Just because the wheel goes round in circles…
doesn’t mean that all of your pots need to be round too!!!

I’m working on a new batch of oval vases. Thrown as bottomless cylinders… then squished into oval shapes as they stiffen up a bit. I’ll add a slab bottom to them in a day or so.