Just a few plates with bands of color… ready for some sgraffito fun!!!

After yesterday’s trial’s & tribulations, I had a little “escape” when I got to do a little stamping with my SURFACE DECORATION class last night.

Of course I had to ride my bike to get there!!!

On a quieter note… I did also pull out my latest batch of reclaimed clay. Piled it up in a large plaster bat so it could dry out a bit to stiffen up into better clay. A bunch of wedging… coming soon to a studio near you!!!

Some folks think pottery just happens… make it, fire it, done. But there’s a more behind the scenes that most people don’t know about. Like the “joy” of physically scraping down all of the kiln shelves after every soda-firing to remove any glaze drips or soda build-up. Gotta keep the shelves clean & ready for the next firing.

My studio cart was filled with glazed & wadded pots… ready for a soda-firing!
We all made it safely downstairs in the rickety freight elevator.
Thanks to some masking tape “seat belts” to keep pots from bouncing off
the shelves during the journey downstairs!

Early morning bisque kiln unloaded… and now it looks like “someone” has a lot of glazing & wadding to do in the next couple days! My hope is to finish it all in time to load the soda kiln this Friday night! Fingers crossed…

Everything dried overnight as planned.
All of these pieces will need to be glazed & wadded later this week!

Also… kinda excited to get my “monster” from last session’s THROWDOWN class into the kiln. He’ll be a lot less fragile once he’s bisqued! And then I’ll just need to figure out how to add some color to him?!

Adding some color with flashing slips that will react in the soda kiln when these get fired next weekend! Wouldn’t know it now… but these “should” turn orange! Fingers crossed…

Handles on! We now have another batch of “hybrid mugs”… a combination of wheelthrown & handbuilding techniques. Next up… some flashing slips to add some color that will be enhanced during the soda-firing process next weekend.