HIGH TECH

Illustrated is the high tech and top secret process by which I achieve some of the surfaces I end up with on my glazes. Included in the photo is of course a banding wheel as old as time itself, a folded piece of cardboard covered with newsprint, the glaze to spray and the lung powered atomized all focused on spraying the small teabowl glazed in Oribe with a masked decoration created using an impromptu cardboard stencil. In this case there were only two teabowls that need to benefit from this high tech and streamlined operation both intended as tests while the bulk of the bisque pots wait thier results. I should mention that on the other side of the photo, I was wearing eye protection and a painters mask with a tiny slit cut in to admit the mouthpiece of the atomizer. I realize this is not necessarily the best operation but normally I would have done this outdoors in the fresh air and upwind but it was raining quite heavily. Tomorrow is a day filled with appointments and errands and I won't get to fire the kiln until Friday, better late than never.