I am not sure
how often this happens to other potters but I ran out of clay recently, I still
have a good cache of terra cotta and porcelain but not stoneware. Part of this
problem stems from the fact that a clay supplier I used to get deliveries from
was goobled up by a really big company so now I have to make a supply run an
hour west or two hours east to get heavy supplies like clay and chemicals for
glazes and slip. Compounding this new issue is that our vehicle can only really
carry about 500lbs at a time so I am limited with each trip. I know, things
could be a lot worse, I could have to dig my clay and mine my own materials but
truthfully i wasn't paying enough attention and "poof" the stoneware
was gone.
Illustrated are two, well
three pasta/ salad/ what-have-you omnibowls that along with a spare teabowl
were thrown off the hump and represent the last bag of clay. I threw these
bowls to proof, test the amber and soda blue on shallow pieces as well as
making sure that the glazes will work considering I am using newly sourced
materials. Shouldn't be a big problem but better to be safe than sorry as the
old days of saying; "well f#ck it" and filling a kiln with an iffy
glaze are well behind me or at least I hope so.
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