I’m back in the studio catching up with 3 bisque-kilns worth of work gently suggesting that it’s time for them to be shiny and finished. Glad to be home and happy to report that our 10th anniversary trip was as … Read the rest
Posted on 09/28/2011 02:51 pm | Comments Off on Back in the Studio
I’m finishing up my glazing today.
I’ll be firing
Ryan’s soda-kiln tomorrow so most of the work is just getting a liner glaze for this round. Some of the work will have some line decorations on it…maybe….the rest will get
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Posted on 04/13/2010 01:29 pm | Comments Off on Glazetime
I, like most potters, tend to complain about how boring/dry/static our bisqued pots look before their final firing. Perhaps I wouldn’t complain if they looked this nice
before they get fired.
Michael Kline is busy firing his woodkiln today and
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As part of the next version of the website, I’m going to put up a technical page with the recipes I use in my studio. The only problem is that like many other potters, this photo shows my glaze recipe … Read the rest
The gas kiln is starting to glow and the burners are on high.
I had a fun little morning at Ale’s pre-school glazing a big bowl. I made two large earthenware bowls and brought in some bright commercial underglazes. Each
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Posted on 05/06/2009 06:55 pm | Comments Off on Moving Along
In addition to seeing all that’s going on this weekend I’ve been steadily glazing and am now about halfway done loading my gas kiln. It’s rare that I’m fully glazed before I start loading. This time I am except for … Read the rest
Obviously, my phantom apprentice didn’t get the entire list accomplished. So now I’m stuck catching up this morning.
I got a few things done over the weekend but much of it involved finishing up the earthenware so the reduction kiln
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Posted on 05/04/2009 12:27 pm | Comments Off on Starting to finish…
I knew there was a reason why I didn’t use glaze tongs very often….
The Porcelain Bowl/Faceting/Glaze Tong combo will not be occurring again anytime soon.
It seems as though almost everything is getting a coat or two of celadon
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I’ve been using the black version of these potter’s pens from
Axner for a little while. I’ve liked the fine lines that I can get. They make different gauge tips for each. I thought that I would try the Blue …
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Glazing went pretty well today. I got just about all of small work glazed up and everything else is waxed and ready to go.
Tomorrow I have to mix up another batch of Celadon so I can glaze up some
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Posted on 10/29/2008 02:34 am | Comments Off on Done for the Day