Bowls and Tea Bowls, without comment.

Almost There

So here are some pots at Solar Roast, you can see mine as well as Laura's and Kuky's there for sale.

Here are my pots all bisqued. At this point everything has been bisqued and I spent the day making glaze, and glazing.

This is an Ash glaze, no water added yet.  I have had a few attempts for a ^6 Ash Glaze but so far nothing has been right. So we will see how this one goes.

And here are my pots glazed and put in a box so I can take them home to my kiln.

So reduction firing is tomorrow, June 22.  The day after the Solstice.  No soda this time.

Handles...

So handles take a lot longer than I would like.  It is simply a matter of me not being very fast.  I just need to make more things with handles, and make the same type of handle repeatedly.  A few hundred  more mugs and I should be smooth....

Here is the shallow bowl trimmed.  The very bottom is actually thin, I did not throw this to have a hollow foot. But I own a bowl shallow like this with no foot and it is not real stable. So I wanted a foot for stability.

Here is the kiln god that went in the last firing, and then a new one that is drying.

Strange Update...

So some significant issues with the firing in the small kiln that I never ever had in my gas kiln.  So basically that was a disaster. Then an electric firing with some of my stuff did not work out either.
So I smashed what was a mess, and salvaged two mugs I will touch up with glaze and refire.  So that was a huge let down.

It was suggested I apply at a gallery that is really a co-op in another town.  Now they only are accepting one potter and I debated if I was going to apply as I really don't think they would pick me. But then I looked at the requirements and it will take too much time a month that they would want me to help with the store. The trade off is paying a fine, but that is too steep for me.  So I wouldn't be able to afford the fine and I certainly could not afford to take the time off work.  So... decision made itself I guess.

So here is my surviving bowl.  I am happy with how this turned out.

Now, as my mugs did not make it. And I need mugs for the coffee shop... well I need more damn mugs.  I did these at 1# 6oz, so they will be larger and "coffee" sized.

This is.. well I have no idea how much clay this was. But it is a shallow bowl.  Two pix so you can see how shallow it is, this first picture makes it look like a plate.  It is 12" wide.

And then came the rain...

So this year they are calling "2nd Sunday" the "Art Bash".  So June till October, on the second sunday of the month, in the courtyard of the main library there will be the Art Bash. it will be for a much shorter period of time than last year, and they are suggesting "art demos".  Last year the community studio was told they could participate for free, and we quickly found it was not really good for sales. But we hoped to attract folks for classes and similar. Clearly, not a place for me personally to sell pots. But given the shorter period of time and all that, why not do demos. 

So we agreed we could do throwing demos.

I did two more pots, did not get pictures. They are little vase type forms. Not my usual at all. In fact they are for Raku. While I like firing Raku, but really don't do it on my own pots as I make functional work... but...

So for 1st Fridays, folks can buy a pot they select and glaze it themselves, and then we fire it for them. This is the Raku firings I have been doing at 1st fridays.  The pots are $15 a pot, and who ever made the pot gets some of the money. So why not knock out some little pots for Raku purposes.

Then the wind picked up... and then it got crazy windy.. tornado warning... then the rain... then the hail.

We packed up, left but soaked.  We were there for about an hour was all.  The pots.. they survived... go figure.

handles and trimming bowls...