MOTIVATION

I finally got motivated to sand, decorate and load a number of greenware pieces into a bisque yesterday and another one today. I total there are about 140 pieces ranging from teabowls to dinnerplates and pasta bowls, some orders, commissions and pieces I made as tests or new forms. The truth is the real motivation to get these pieces fired was the weather as we are in the midst of cold, cold rain which is supposed to ice up and with ice comes downed trees and power outages. Since I won't be throwing I can get three glazes made and two topped off and get around to glazing by Friday as I have some other commitments tomorrow and Monday. It is funny how the weather finally gave me the kick in the but to stop throwing and get stuff processed before there was a mishap as storing all that greenware was getting tricky. Illustrated is just a group of carved slip porcelain bowls about 9" across ready to be cleaned and then glazed in either my Oribe, amber or soda blue, there are also combed stoneware slipbowls, some chatterware and a few teabowls meant as filler in the periphery of the picture. Now that the second bisque is finished firing without any power interuptions I am rather glad to have these pots in a more stable situation but I still need to figure out where to store them while I am glazing everything up, the pitfalls of a car garage studio and limited wall space.