The weather has turned glorious...spring at it's best...and I find it all distracting. With less than a week to make pots before I begin loading the kiln, I can't decide whether I should be planting things and working on landscaping or throwing more last minute treasures...or hanging out at Laszlo's Weenie World for the Virginia States Frisbee Championships...or...you get the picture. I know that I can put a lot of things off until after the firing, but the weather is bound to get hotter than I prefer by then.
Still, at least some of the time I'm get to the studio. I've got 50-60 mugs made...I want 100.
These next two are the last of the big'uns...18" - 20" tall. I added lots of dots with my black glaze which you can see on previous posts.
I like to have at least one "Fredericksburg" pot in each firing. My calligraphy skills are crude at best.
Here's a peek inside some biscuit fired pots.I raw glaze/fire most of my work but I've never been able to make my crackle slip work on wet pots. (truthfully I haven't tried all that hard. Yet.) I should write more about raw glazing soon. I love it. The difference in how a pot takes the glaze is subtle but important. Biscuit fired pots suck the glaze up almost frantically as opposed to the way a slip or glaze glides across the surface of a raw pot. Try combing a biscuit pot after applying a slip and you'll know what I mean.
4 comments:
I think your calligraphy is wonderful; my drawings on paper are always so much better than on my pots. I hope you post about raw glazing, that is something I hope to do in the future.
hi dan, not sure how you can pass up any event at a place with weenie world in the name... and of course the weather is unbelievable, here too. that first big'un is beautiful, damn nice! perfect proportion and everything else too.
I agree with all of the above!
I would love to hear about raw glazing, I find the handling of the raw pots sometimes hard, especially glazing a raw plate... any tips from an experienced potter like yourself would be great!
Nice work! Often when I sit at the wheel I think I'd like to throw x number of bowls or mugs but try not to be so hard on yourself!
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