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.
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