It's Been Awhile

I've been away from the blogging world for awhile. Have spent some time at the studio, but not nearly enough. These pieces above have some white or brown slip on them after I etched some words or symbols into the clay. This was a longer and harder process than I thought. Will be interesting to see how these turn out.

Here's a close-up of the jar... it will be a gift.

One reason I haven't been blogging is that I've been traveling. Last week I was in Bethesda, MD for a conference and ate some absolutely incredible food!

This is lebanese. Hummus with boiled fava beans is hard to beat! Plus the seasoning on the chicken was incredible.

Also took a short trip to the Washington National Cathedral. I could've spent much longer there. Time went by too fast.

This is my favorite Indian restaurant in Bethesda. Naan plus lentils. Mmmm. This is hard to beat.

When I returned, I made two lids for a jar that I have on the shelf. I'll decide later which one to put on the jar.

Yesterday my shelf was quite full until this evening when I glazed a bunch of my pieces.

Decided to try completely new glazes. Most of these have a base coat of Haney's white and then have accents in Catherine's Oribe and/or Tom's Clear. Most also have accents of soda ash sprinkled somewhere on the piece.

I haven't used any of these glazes before. I was ready for a change. This should be interesting. This was the jar where I had etched some words around it on the outside. Also put a ring of soda ash. I'm really excited to see if the white slip etched words comes through the Tom's Clear glaze.

Here's half of the pieces I glazed. Not sure when they'll be fired.

Here's the other half of the pieces. A few are cereal bowls. The piece on the far right will be a flowerpot.

Here they all are, waiting for the gas kiln to be fired.