Fresh from the kiln… three new stamped platters!!! Bright colors. Big fun.
On their way to the Hinsdale Fine Arts Festival this weekend.
Saturday & Sunday in Burlington Park from 10:00am-5:00pm.

Glazed & loaded another kiln today.
This time, a cone 6 firing for a quick pop of color.
Just in time for the Hinsdale Fine Arts Festival next weekend.

Sure, the “Quite White Collection” might be the new big thing… all the rage!
But there were a few colors in the same glaze kiln!!!
I especially like how these two glazes really accentuate the stamps on these mugs.

My kiln is still a little too warm to unload…
so I took off a couple layers of bricks to speed it up.
And look what I found front & center?… a nice new stamped vase!!!
Hope there’s more beautiful things inside later tonight!!!

Almost ready to start loading. My pots are glazed, wadded and separated by shelf depending on what kind of clay it is. I like to stack my soda kiln with porcelain in the back, B-clay in the medium soda areas, and soda clay where it will get more soda exposure.

After glazing a lot of pieces, and spraying some colored glaze accents,
the build-up of the over-spray area dried up and started flaking off. Kinda cool to see it falling off in flakes, some more in larger sheets of dried glaze!

Getting ready for my soda kiln…
so I glazed and added some colored slip accents to my latest batch of textured tiles. They still need to be wadded… with a LOT of wads, as I want to keep them as flat as possible. And let’s just say, the soda kiln doesn’t have a good reputation for keeping things flat & unwarped.

So the spoons are getting one step closer to completion..
and I for one can’t wait to see how they turn out.

I added a temoku glaze inlay to most of them… as well as in the spoon itself.
And then gave some of them a slight spraying with a colored glaze for a pop of color.

And so the glazing continues… painting temoku glaze on top of the stamped impressions. I let it dry and then I wipe off the top layer with a damp sponge. That way the temoku glaze stays in the impressions and make the stamped texture really pop!