Forty one new members of the glaze family based on my unique polymer additive. The array of surfaces is familiar from the last firing but the colours have changed. With enough granules and a glaze combination of sufficient fluidity, the […]
While it has been a few days since the kiln was unloaded, I still feel a sense of awe when I look at the fired test results. Each of the six combinations making up the red, green and blue sets, […]
The dehumidifier stopped working weeks ago. It started blowing the circuit breaker every time I used it. Drying is a slow process without it. I had forgotten how well vitrified porcelain cookies work when you need to level an edge. […]
Over the course of the week, I assembled a burgeoning metropolis of open forms. Days alternated between slip casting on the one and removing the forms from the moulds on the other. There are ninety nine assorted copies of the […]
The closed forms were fired over the weekend. The temperature was just what I wanted in the bottom of the kiln but slightly hot in the top. There was some degree of surface variation within each colour combination depending on […]
I didn’t get as far as firing this past week. It’s just as well considering the heat and humidity we’ve been experiencing. Mornings were relatively cool. That was my time to work. Most days the studio was too stifling to […]
It was a week of glazing bisque and firing kilns. The culmination of all the weeks spent making models, moulds, and slip casting. The moment of truth when it all comes together. The first glaze firing barely made it to […]
With a nudge from a friend, I decided to forget my plans and start glazing. All it took to make that happen was relocating some seldom used dry materials. That made enough space to absorb about a third of the […]
It’s a week’s work to cast one copy from each of these moulds and have it ready to bisque fire. The time adds up quickly when you have this much greenware to clean. I do a final once over with […]
It was a challenge to slip cast with so much of the table space given over to storage. Between the first instalment of the modules and those I just made, there are around eighty moulds involved in this set. Not […]
