Katsup Ketchup Catch-up

Playing a bit of catch-up in the studio with the new/old "Half Pint" kiln.

2 finished Hamburger Yo-yos that Ron Philbeck had us all playing with back in February.

This yumoni is from a small series of works from April that are a tip the hat to Matthew Metz
This will find new homes as part of a Miracle Mile "CUPS" project.

A few of the spice dishes started making their way through...

A few Flower Vases from March were finally pushed through using 2 different white glazes.

This firing took 24 hours. About 12 hours longer than I had thought it would and it just dropping cone 5, (I was shooting for cone 6). But it was a beautiful load! The only pieces that pinholed were the ones that were supposed to. The GhostBlues in this load were brilliant blue.
Now time to tear apart the kiln panel again and run the multimeter back through everything. 24 hours is a lot of electricity!

Cone 6 Oribe Green

32% Custer Feldspar
24% Whiting
24% Silica
12% EPK
8% Zinc Oxide
add
5% Copper carbonate

Cone 5-7

(ClayTimes May/ June 02, Pg. 59)

This is a beautiful transparent glossy Jade green glaze. Plan for a bit of vertical movement with this glaze, especially if applied thick. Prone to pin-holing is not soaked at the top of firing.
It works very well over a black slip design.

For Saki's Sake

Saki... sake... whatever... these little sake cups are just over an inch and a half tall...

I get a charge from running other fellow studio potters works through my studio's glazes and kiln. They never fail to bring in fresh views regarding form (everyone experimenting with something or another...) and it's always a learning experience to see how my glazes interact with what they got. These inch and a half tall saki shots took the crackle and crawl glaze very nicely... they feel great and light as a whisper!

These works are from MossBeach studio potter Matt Brown. He was brave enough to drop by and glaze these up a few months ago. Between rain, kiln room flooding, kiln failures, and LOTS of whatnot... actually putting them through the kiln has been put off until this weekend.
I really really like what came out. NICE...
Thanks Matt!

Short Lesson on Leadership

I nearly shot coffee out my nose when I saw this video this morning.



Thank you from all of us Shirtless Guy!

Titillating TeaPots

These are 2 out of a collection of 6 teapots fresh from the kiln of local ceramic artist Bruce Cadman.

I love his work for so many reasons, but what I thoroughly enjoy is getting to watch people's reactions as they try to walk by his work without looking at it.

Naughty naughty dirty old potters!