Clear skies finally prevailed. After yesterday’s storms, it was great to wake this morning to dry roads & lightly clouded skies. A bit breezy, but beautiful nonetheless.

Fun little flakes scattered all over my latest sgraffito platter. My DiamondCore Tools make nice crisp carving lines… but this platter is already a little drier than I’m used to, so the flakes are everywhere!!!

Throwing some enclosed forms today in the studio… working on something new!!! Sure, I coulda done one prototype to see if it works… but no, I’m more of an “all in” kinda guy!!! Fingers crossed…. more to come!

After assembling, I dipped the exterior of my “hybrid mugs” in some thin flashing slip. After soda-firing, these colored slips will change colors & accentuate the stamped textures!

Looks like someones DIVVY bike went for a swim… and didn’t make it out for awhile?! Always fun when they come around and start fishing out the bikes that have been “deposited” into the Lake… and there are always more than you think!

A few moments of pastel sunrise colors… and then back to gray. An other quiet morning pedaling along the lakefront. Happy to have some color back in the sunrise sky… even if it was short-lived.