Almost…..
This will be opened when it’s official!
Posted in obamaware on 11/05/2008 03:41 am | 2 Comments
Vote!
Blogging about pottery will resume tomorrow.
Today….Vote…and…Enjoy this moment in history.
Listen and read about others enjoying it as well.
Here is a story from Talking Points Memo.
Posted in Uncategorized on 11/04/2008 04:50 pm | Comments Off on Vote!
Vote!
We went before school so Javi and Ale could help us vote. I’m actually surprised that my ballot went through because the line that Javi made connecting the arrow on the ballot wasn’t exactly straight.
They wouldn’t leave for school until they could hold some signs. I’ve never seen a line this long here in Harwich before.
Vote!
Posted in Uncategorized on 11/04/2008 01:57 pm | 2 Comments
Vote!
Tomorrow morning we’re waking up early, having a quick breakfast and then taking Javi, Ale and Clarita with us to vote. The polls open at 7am here in Massachusetts.
Javi and Ale are very excited to help us draw the line for Barack Obama on our optical scan ballots.
Go Vote! Make sure your friends do!
Posted in Uncategorized on 11/04/2008 03:19 am | Comments Off on Vote!
Lists
My list of things to get done seems to be getting longer.
I’ve been more productive in the studio than I have been in a while…but the list keeps growing. I haven’t tried to turn-around the reduction kiln this quickly in years so there’s no post firing rest this time. On the upside…I’m actually unloading the second kiln-load with time to spare before I load up the van for CraftBoston…and that’s unusual for me.
I got a little more throwing done today but probably not enough to fully fill another bisque kiln. Unless I somehow manage to find some more energy tonight and throw another ware-board full of pots I’ll be loading a not quite dry and not quite full electric bisque tomorrow night. Then, it’s off to the races as I get ready for another firing, figure out a booth setup and try to find some time to update my website with the new work.
Pleased
I had a typical after-firing response today. I didn’t really react at all. Now that I had the day to absorb it all I’m feeling pretty good about the firing and ready to start glazing again this week to fire again by the weekend.
Almost the entire kiln was celadon glazes over a variety of slip decoration techniques. Just before I was done loading I found an Axner Potter’s Pen with black slip. I had never used it…I think I ordered it about a year ago and it sat on a shelf somewhere in the studio. I tried it on the middle vase in the pic below as a test…pretty big test, actually. I liked the result. It’s a nice fine line and some of the black bleeds through a little bit into the glaze…none of these details show up in these quick pics so you’ll just have to believe me. I think I’ll play around with it a little more.
The black slip on the mugs below is incised to the stoneware clay below. The pic makes it look a little plastic-like but these came out really nicely.
The celadon on these mugs is just what I was looking for. I like the white slip/black slip/stoneware going on with these.
Another good white slip/incised with black slip/celadon glazed piece.
Here’s the large platter that I made. It fired to a little over 21 inches across and came out really nicely.
Somehow I’ll shoot new and better pics for the website in the next week or so.
Tomorrow is another morning of throwing some more small porcelain pieces for this week’s firing and then hopefully by afternoon I’m off to prep for glazing again. The goal is to load Thursday….but….as long as I’m firing the kiln by Sunday things will be out in time for CraftBoston.
Posted in Uncategorized on 11/03/2008 02:32 am | 1 Comment
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