Tuesday Night

Tonight during class, Adrienne made lots of altered forms. She does this all so quickly, it's hard to remember what to do when. I must say that she's an incredible teacher. I continue to learn so much from her!

These yunomis are sitting on the shelf waiting patiently to be glazed. Hopefully, that will happen this week!

Trimmed these teabowls made from recycled clay. They're headed to the bisque kiln as soon as they're dry.

Here are some of the forms that Adrienne made. I think I'll focus on making some more pitchers in the next days to come.

And this too- a creamer! Gosh, how I need and want to spend many more hours at the wheel.

Recycled

Even Clayworks recycles! I made some teabowls today with some recycled clay that a friend gave me at clayworks. The consistency is different; it's a bit slimy and not my favorite, but it's good practice and they turned out well. This recycled clay can be either fired to Cone 6 (electric kiln) or Cone 10 (gas kiln). May use these as test glaze teabowls, to try out several glaze combinations. I still like phoenix clay much better.

Sundays wear me out! Didn't have alot of energy to do much more. Will trim these teabowls tomorrow evening and make some kind of form.... hmmm will have to think of what!

Saturday Glazing

All of these were ready to be glazed, so that is how I spent my afternoon. On almost all, I put the blue/green celadon glaze as a base and then some accents with alfred's blue.

This pic shows the 20 plus pieces with the blue/green celadon. A time-consuming process in all.

In the front left of the picture there' sa goblet with some wood ash in it. Wood ash from my parent's fireplace. Sifted it a bit and then I sprinkled it onto a few pieces. Not sure how the blue/green celadon reacts to it yet.

The large yunomi on the right has some wood ash on the inside of it.

Used a bulb syringe to put the alfred's blue on the pot. DIluted the alfred's blue a bit with water, so it's not too thick.

Some more bowls with the glaze combo I mentioned above.

The yunomi in the front of this picture has spotted shino as its base. Some wood ash on the outside too.

Some wood ash on the inside of it.

Finished the day by making a small bowl. I plan on trying some new things in the weeks to come- not sure what that looks like yet. New glazes? new forms? new surface design? Time will tell.

Bowls and Mason Stain

Spent some time today trimming bowls and then etching words onto some leather hard bowls.

Applied some mason stain to bisqued bowls yesterday. While I really like the results of this process, it just takes a long while.

It's worth the time though. I really like how these turn out. Next, I'll glaze these and a bunch more tomorrow. Blue/Green Celadon with some alfred's blue accents.