After camp I unloaded my kiln full of tiles for my collaboration project with Cory McCrory… yes, 724 tiles to be exact!!!

I was very pleased when I opened the lid of the kiln. Subtle variations & shades of my new cone 6 green glaze. I really like how the glaze pools well, and breaks even better on the textures & patterns. So here’s a pretty BIG teaser reveal… and a LOT of green tiles!!!

Layer after layer, today I loaded all of my glazed tiles for the collaboration project into an electric kiln. It’s a Cone 6 firing using a relatively new glaze recipe… so my fingers are crossed.

Okay, so I spent tonight in the studio AGAIN glazing tiles! Who knew that a bucket full of tiles would take SO long to glaze?! Not me. Of course it’s my own fault. If my calculations are right, I only need 450 tiles for my part of the collaboration project with Cory McCrory. And since I’m a just little bit of an over-achiever, I just finished glazing 724 tiles!!! So I may have a “few” extras. Now I need to get them loaded into a kiln early next week.

Tonight I spent a couple hours in the studio glazing tiles… and the bucket didn’t seem to go down any?!!! How does that happen???

Looks like I’ve got a bucket full of fun to start glazing!!! And quick…

I unloaded my cone 6 glaze kiln last night… just a couple, last-minute pieces that will be headed to the Hinsdale Fine Arts Festival this weekend. Here’s the top layer with lots of colorful promise…

Layer two didn’t look too bad either… a new batch of textured tiles!

Spent the night in the studio glazing one last kiln load.
Just under the wire.

More new work coming out of the kiln
just in time for this weekend in Hinsdale!!!

I stopped into the studio early this morning to unload my second cone six kiln.
Yes, two kilns in five days… with a cone 04 kiln squeezed in between! Not bad.
And again, I’m pretty pleased with these new glazes!!!

Although I did have a bit of a “learning curve” with this firing. I tried doing a couple glaze overlapped-combinations based on the test tiles in my last kiln. And for the most part, they didn’t turn out all that well. Seems like these glazes work much better when they’re a thinner single dip. Good to know… moving forward… Some of them did turn out pretty sweet though!

After my first Cone 6 kiln turned out really well, I knew that I “needed” to squeeze in one more kiln this week. As if one cone 6 glaze and one cone 04 terra cotta weren’t enough already?!

Kiln Layer #1 – Flower pots , herb flower pots & mugs

Kiln Layer #2 – herb flower pots & mugs

Kiln Layer #3 – flower pot drip trays & spoon rests

Kiln Layer #4 – ikebana flower vases & drip trays

Kiln Layer #5 – bowls, ikebana & a “stray” drip tray!