05.10.2018
Categories: porcelain, production
Playing with porcelain again… and a bit of black slip!
Pretty good chance that there’s some decorative sgraffito carving in my not-so-distant future!
04.25.2018
Remember that first bag of clay that made thirty cylinders a week ago?…
well, they’re all stamped, trimmed & dried.
And I figured if one bag of clay is good, two bags would be better!
So I made another thirty!!! This time thrown & stamped in one sitting…
and now trimming too!!! I’ve got “big plans” for these babies!!! More to come…
04.23.2018
Another Monday.
Another week.
Another stamped platter.
04.01.2018
Another platter. Another stamp. Stamp. Stamp. Repeat.
And repeat again… and again… one by one… from plain to fully stamped!
And done. For now.
Next up is drying slowly… bisque firing… glazing… and firing again! Quite the process!!!
03.23.2018
My studio cart down in the kiln room ready for loading. The bands of masking tape are just “safety belts” so everything survives the trip down in the freight elevator. WHEW… made it. Including the teapots glazed & wadded… wouldn’t want to lose another one of them!!!
03.23.2018
Another table full of bisqued pots for last night’s marathon glazing session. Either way you look at it… there’s a LOT of pots waiting to go into this weekend’s soda kiln. Happy to report… these are all glazed, wadded and ready to go. For tonight I load the kiln!
03.22.2018
It was a big night of glazing last night. A lot of bisqued pots needing to be glazed for this weekend’s soda kiln firing. I start by adding some tenmoku glaze accents as inlays in the stamped patterns. When it dries, I carefully wipe off the top surface to keep the glaze only in the stamped recesses. Lots of glazing… lots of wiping. And that’s just for starters!
03.21.2018
Categories: kiln firing, production
One last bisque kiln loaded and firing. Time to start glazing the pieces that came out
of my previous kilns… as my next soda firing is THIS WEEKEND!!! Yikes…
fire fast, cool faster… quick!!!
Bisque Kiln Layer #1 – mugs, flower pots, soap dispensers and square vases (upside down).
Bisque Kiln Layer #2 – stacks of serving bowls, cups… and one class demo ornament!
Bisque Kiln Layer #3 – mugs, teapots, bowls, and square vases
Bisque Kiln Layer #3 and a half – a half layer with small plates & square vases
Bisque Kiln Layer #4 – another half layer with a stack of stamped platters.
And I love when the kiln is packed pretty tight all the way up to the top.
Just a smidge of air space between these platters and the lid when it comes down!
03.19.2018
Good thing I’ve been making more of my textured square vases…
because the ones used for Patti’s centerpieces pretty much cleaned me out!
So I’ve made another batch of them… this time in three sizes!!!
So I’ve been making more, adding flashing slip details and setting them out to dry. I decided to dry them on plastic grid for better air-flow, as well as some tile “weights” on the tops to keep them from warping or twisting as they dry. Not an exact science… but it can’t hurt, right?
