Merry Christmas to your eyes. Check out the photos of the new ceramic items that I just pulled out of the kiln. If you’ve been keeping score at home you probably realized that I had a lot of glazing to do approximately one week ago. Well, by “a lot” I meant “so much that I might never want to glaze anything again”. You see, I spent most of the day and all night Saturday and into the early morning Sunday doing nothing except glazing bisqueware. The good news is that I ordered five new glaze colors recently so I got to try them out.
I fired the kiln starting Sunday at around 1:15 and it finished 8 hours later. It cooled down Sunday night and Monday while I was at jury duty. Of the new glazes that I ordered I really like the Temmoku and Textured Turquoise from Amaco and the Red Gold from Coyote. Here are a few pictures:
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- Full glaze fire load from 12/14/08
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- small bowls and mugs with earth tones
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- Larger items
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- stoneware containers with lids
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- Small and medium mixing bowls
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- XL mug, marbled vase, torn vase
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- ceramic wheel-thrown plates
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- target practice, small cylinders
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- pitchers, tall lidded containers
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- cone 6 glaze test tiles
If I can pull it off again, I hope to glaze another load and have it fired by Christmas. Or Groundhog day….
