That last pic is the ad for the huge party planned on 11/21 for my studio complex.
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Been a while since I’ve made any of these but I’m at the end of my throwing cycle and that’s when I usually don’t know what to make. I was working out a few design ideas in these four as I was throwing. Sequoia Miller has a new blog and he addressed that idea nicely the other day:
Here’s that bisque. Almost ready.
I hope I can make it back up the hill to our house at the end of the day.
Anyways, here’s my main worktable with a view to the back of the studio. my office area is on the right by the chair and my lounge(ikea sofa) is on the left. Those boxes next to the sofa will be replaced by som bookshelves soon.
Here’s another view to the back with some shelving visible. Apparently…shelving is supposed to be used to organize and hold stuff. The floor is not the correct place to put piles of stuff. Thank you sweetie!
Here are a few pots drying for the next bisque. Not sure how that polychrome piece will do but it may at least make it into the bisque.
Bisqued pots, ready to glaze which means it may be time to mix up a bucket of something.
Another bisque is already started. I’ll probably fire a glaze afterwards…I’m used to cycling through for a larger kiln so I need to adjust to just make, bisque and glaze fire a shorter cycle but old habits are hard to break.
If you’re in the area you should be to.
I’ve never really thought throwing plates is an efficient use of time or clay. Well, not so much the throwing of the plates, but perhaps the trimming?
I fired my first bisque here in Austin yesterday. I had to head home before the kiln had finished and was pleased to return this morning to find out that the kiln works after the move and that the studio is still here after the first firing.
I bought a kiln vent from Bailey. I got the double-kiln vent even though I only have one kiln at the moment. As I was started the kiln I looked at the instructions and it said to get a standard 4″ pipe cap if you only have one kiln hooked up. I didn’t have the “standard” pipe cap on hand so I made do with what I did have.
On the making front, I got a round of plates thrown. I have to send a plate to an upcoming show at the Ferrin Gallery so I’d like to get these in the next bisque. I’m planning on giving these guys the CityScape treatment that most things seem to get these days.
It was parent teacher conference day on Monday so Javi had the day off. It was a boys’ day and we started on South Congress for lunch. Javi took this first photo. I have to create a folder of all the pictures the kids take. They get some good ones and thank god for digital cameras…because they take some terrible ones as well. Sort of like me photographing my pots.
Javi with the some of the more recognizable South Congress stores in the background.
Then it was off to HomeSlice Pizza. It’s very, very good….and I’m a pizza snob raised on Sal’s Pizza. The little ones in our family don’t get soda very often so this root beer was thoroughly enjoyed.
Hmm….which piece?
That one!
Then it was off to the studio to try his hand at the wheel. He’s popped his head in the studio before and I’ve always handed him some clay, a few tools, a paddle but this was his first time on the wheel. I may have helped him center and raise the walls a bit.
But he wasn’t interested in my help. It was sort of like the time my father-in-law thought he knew how to make pots. 
He wanted to make a mug for our babysitter so I helped him out a bit.
Here are his 4 pots of the day. See if you can pick out the one he did by himself.
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