I've been working to finish off 2 kiln loads of bisque ware this week. A third of the bisque ware is for my in house Cone 6 electric firing, a third is for soda firing with Matt of Mossbeach Ceramics, and the last third is for banking away for special spur of the moment firings.
Most of this load is canisters for my local farmers markets with a few sculptural peices for my summer projects and a handful of experiments to test new ideas.
Here is a shot of some of this weeks work drying upside down...
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Ups and downs
Well... I've been busy busy busy getting bisque loads through the kiln and glazing up work for next weeks soda firing. But with all that bisque floating around the studio, I couldn't resist testing some new glazes on a kiln load of work.
Now you would think I would know better than to run nearly a whole load of work through with untested glazes... out of 52 peices, 21 are acceptable... mabey. Alot of them are really orange though.
Now you would think I would know better than to run nearly a whole load of work through with untested glazes... out of 52 peices, 21 are acceptable... mabey. Alot of them are really orange though.
FetishGhost Canisters
Another quick post befoe I head out to the studio.
This is a canister (8"h by 5"w) has been slipped and glazed using a white texture glaze and fired to cone 6 in an electric kiln. The cobalt in the slip burns through the white glaze as blue. This is for my FetishGhost storefront on Etsy.
Here's another....
This is a canister (8"h by 5"w) has been slipped and glazed using a white texture glaze and fired to cone 6 in an electric kiln. The cobalt in the slip burns through the white glaze as blue. This is for my FetishGhost storefront on Etsy.
Here's another....
Experiments from the kiln
Thanks iannon!
Another quick post from this weeks load...
and a foot shot...
This yunomi's surface is the result of a multifired glaze combo that takes advantage of an oxide slip, wax resist, and iron wash brush work. It was part of a batch of experiments that will hopefully lead me into some really fun new territory in the next few weeks.
Another quick post from this weeks load...
and a foot shot...
This yunomi's surface is the result of a multifired glaze combo that takes advantage of an oxide slip, wax resist, and iron wash brush work. It was part of a batch of experiments that will hopefully lead me into some really fun new territory in the next few weeks.
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awesome pieces
Hi Joel or Zygote,
Took a few minutes to check out your site/posts and that crawl glaze and ghost images are unbelievably cool!! I've had a few but they were not on purpose. Gertsley borate probably taken through that 1100-1300 *F range too fast. Any tips on crawl glazes would be great.
I'll be checking back soon.
Bill
Took a few minutes to check out your site/posts and that crawl glaze and ghost images are unbelievably cool!! I've had a few but they were not on purpose. Gertsley borate probably taken through that 1100-1300 *F range too fast. Any tips on crawl glazes would be great.
I'll be checking back soon.
Bill
Thanks Mrs. Chip!!!
I posted few of the funkier pieces from this Sundays kiln load on my blog this morning...
http://www.FetishGhost.blogspot.com
I posted few of the funkier pieces from this Sundays kiln load on my blog this morning...
http://www.FetishGhost.blogspot.com