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Glaze Fire Results – May 2013

A few pieces from a glaze fire last month.

All Amaco Warm Brown Stoneware. Wheel Thrown. Glaze fired to ^6 in oxidation.

: small cups with small additions

: small brown cups

: strontium crystal magic tests

: new WN designs

: mugs

: earthtone berry bowl

: dark brown cups

: stoneware cups

: brown tumblers

: bowl with black splashes

: berry bowl with textured handle

: small two-tone bowl

: tumbler and mug

: textured cups

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New Work

drying pots

I’ve been trying to get enough work scraped together for a bisque fire. Mostly weekend work. But soon that will change… It’s almost summer break! I’ve got Â a nice platter thrown and trimmed that is drying slowly. I also have a handful of PBL mugs, a couple berry bowls, and a bunch of other random pieces.

PBL mugs

drying shelf

I don’t think I have enough for a full bisque load but I plan to try some more decals. Hopefully I can fill in the empty spaces with those. I’m hoping to bisque fire by Tuesday or Wednesday. But there’s a chance that I might make a few more things if I have too much space to fill. We’ll see what happens.

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Testing Decals

I recently tested decals on my current lineup of glazes. The decals came from decalpaper.com. The test tiles were made from Amaco’s Warm Brown Stoneware, bisque fired and then each dipped in one of my current glazes. After glaze firing each tile to ^6 I applied one of the water slide decals and put the tiles through another bisque fire. The images show the tiles just after I applied the decals and then after the decals were fired on.

: decal test 2

: decal test 3

: decal test 1

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First Glaze Fire of 2013

I had a chance to fire some pieces a few weeks ago and just recently took some photos of some of my favorites. Finally today, I got the images to my computer and made them web worthy.

Warm Brown Stoneware fired to ^6.

: keep calm

: FRINGE white tulips

: FRINGE inspired mugs

: sprayed vases

: vases

: blue texture detail

: textured cups

: running glaze detail

: black and white cup detail

: stoneware cups

: small tumblers

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2013 Goshen Empty Bowl Event

Yesterday was the day for the Goshen Clay Artist’s Guild 2013 Empty Bowl Event. I talked my wife into going with me so we drove over to the Goshen Farmer’s Market around 5:20 on Saturday evening.

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