Maybe there's a bit of a writing block. So it's hard to blog just now. But the rest of the work is not blocked. My creative focus is diverted into all of the other work- the art of making and the business of promoting and selling.
Here is the kiln I opened this morning. The first glimpse is a blank of beige fire brick and beige shelves. It's like when you start a new book; it's the no-frills front paper before a story begins.
After lifting the cap shelves off and unloading the first pieces of student work (that's for a different blog post), I found that the red bowls had come out well:
(The red is bluish where it pools)
both inside and out-
(Interesting...the green glaze on bare rim, vs the green glaze over the red glaze)
and the greeny-blue pieces were good, too.
(Hellooooo Beautiful)
A platter further down was softer red than expected. I think it's a winner:
(underglaze on the bird made some necessary contrast)
Altogether, the reds were a nice group. These bowls were the textured ones (chattered, grooved with a lemon zester) you saw before today in these pages, in their various stages of development.
(Got a bird motif going on)
The next glazed pots are on the cart waiting to go into the kiln next week. Different color group. That's a bit of a different adventure from these.
In the fresh clay section of the studio, more dinnerware will be in the works on Tuesday of next week. (I will have a few days off before then for family graduations.) Back to you next week!