Keeping My Head Above Water

sunset on Conley Ridge Road

In my sea of pots that await the brush and the glaze, I'm hanging in there. Whenever I step outside I'm amazed at how wonderful the air feels on my face. After looking at pots and painting at close range, the great outdoors seems like such vastness.

[laugh]

It is! (a vastness)




- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

Just Pictures from Wednesday

here are a few pictures of last night's painting highlights.

motif source: queen ann's lace
i wonder how i can get a blue glaze like this?

;-)

Can We Hit It and Quit?

John wedging the wadding

Just getting around to blogging about the busy day working with John Simmons, adjunct potter! While I painted pots, John prepped the kiln and paved the way to loading and firing. He also topped off all of the slips and glazes we'll need in the coming days of glazing. Awesome! John kicked a$$!









There is bisque ware piled up everywhere and probably more than the wood kiln can hold for this go round and two more bisque loads wait outside! That's good, considering the follow up firing with Kyle in October just around the corner!









More painting into the night and morning for me and more images and a maybe a video of the painting in the coming days.









- Posted using BlogPress

Painting Memo

I'm well into some painting and have been exploring inside/outside pattern. It is something I began last spring with a sawed off brush for the inside and a regular brush on the outside. I begin on the inside and follow the lines over the lip of the cup or bowl. In the case of my flat-bottomed tumblers and breakfast cups, I even continue the pattern on the bottom. Having fun and wanted to share the thoughts. But there is a lot of pottery to paint, so I'm off to my station! Hope you are well!

- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

Mail Bag

Just got my copy of Sung Jae Choi's catalog of new work at the Pucker Gallery in my (real)mailbox. I love this work!! Get your copy of the catalog in PDF here(<---click). Just in time for some inspiring deco-rotation! Back to the brush and the bisque!

Not Like the Other

By now my neighbors must be convinced that I'm a vampire (which proves Stacey's suspicions as well!)

No, it's just hell week, here. Another firing is just around the corner. Everything takes longer, a LOT longer. Especially if you haven't made a teapot in ??? year(s).


I'd better check the record (read: search the blog) to see when the last teapot was made. I don't think I've made any in this new studio and this "new" studio is now two years old! I remember my first pots were "Obamaware" pots, which seems like lifetime, ago. Or at least another last election cycle ago...I guess some things never change. Time marches on.

I know what some of you are thinking, and the answer is, no. I'm not going Republican, just got bored with making birds!

;-)

Now it's on to the next one. The one being many , many pieces of bisqueware to paint and glaze, and a couple more bisque firings...

Have a wonderful day.

Bone Yard

Im not so sure where the term bone yard came from, but this is what's left at the end of the making: surplus spouts and cracked pots! They'll be back to mud by tomorrow and back on the wheel after the firing.


Better luck next time!

Teapot View

Just before the spout is joined, a pause to appreciate a utilitarian pattern that won't be seen again until this pot's Waterloo.


- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

Blank

I needed a little more height out of the ole L&L so I cut some soft brick to make this blank ring (of sorts).


- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

Big Blue

Drying the last of the big jars out on the picnic table under super blue skies. Whether I'll have room or time to bisque these is the question. I can always glaze these bone dry if i don't get them in the bisque. Loading bisque load number 8 today so I'm on track with my minimum 10 bisque per wood kiln! Probably will be 12 altogether. I also have about 60 pots that were left out of the last firing. Having a surplus is always good especially since I'll be firing again with Kyle in October!



The day has already been productive and it will be non-stop all week. Have a great Monday! Are you GTD?


- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone