The Black Hole glaze looked strange and unfamiliar when I opened the kiln door. It was overwhelming to see all the vases packed so closely together. A cacophony for the eyes instead of the ears. I began to appreciate the […]
This week, I used half of the small bisque vases I had on hand to do some glaze explorations. The only difference between each pair shown is the top coat of glaze. The furry vases have a white top coat […]
I was looking forward to having some finished work. It turned out I needed to learn a valuable lesson in press moulding first. Pinholes began to develop in the glaze even as I brushed the first coat. I tried to […]
It was a week of waiting for the cups and bowls to dry, cleaning greenware and a little glazing. Managed to get all the new pieces in the bisque by Sunday. It all comes out this morning. I glazed the […]
The thing that was going to keep me out of the studio was over before it started. That first set of cups and bowls that I pressed a week ago was a write off. It was impossible to clean them […]
I didn’t get much new work made this week. Getting everything cleaned up and photographed took a couple days. Then setting up the sale, extra shop time, housework… In the end, I had time to press one round from the […]
When I started to mix the dozen glazes to use on this round of work, I thought I knew what I wanted. I was going to have a coloured glaze inside and over the eyes and a clear glaze over […]
Spent a few days carving the interiors and cleaning up the pressed forms from last week. Most of these will be glaze fired rim down on the kiln shelf. Each needs a cookie, or thin slab of porcelain, to stop […]
I said my goodbyes to the recent group of wax models. One by one they sank into the deep fryer only to be spooned back out as shapeless liquid to return to the form of the pucks from which they […]
For some reason, I thought I had taken that needed day already to finish up the last of the models. It wasn’t until moulding time that I realized I hadn’t. So my week of mould making was interrupted with what […]