driving like a granny...

Oh some groovy stuff goin down this week.... I dropped into one of the places I have some work this week for a chat to see how things are going and was invited to take part in an interiors expo in May this year... It's a really cool idea a setup with all kinds of gear furnishings and everything that goes with it... more when I know the details, so I really got inspired today to make a few more tiles :))

Some earthenware tests and a midfire yummo green...

And my car load for the trip home...some new cups and a few bowls about to get the shino treatment :))

you know it's crazy around here on the short treck home, I need to hang a 'driving like a granny' sign up in my window... you think they'd be used to me by now turtling around the round- a -bouts :P

slipware after all #2...

A few details of the marks I made on Saturday, two of the three Accidental Terracotta platters survived the slip to this point.. firing tomorrow and hopefully I have a result as I've entered one into the Campbelltown art show..

I think at this stage they are about 38cm.. more shrinkage to come

I didn't attempt to slip the outside of the wares they are very loose and whatever dripped over the outside whilst pouring the inside I have left there..

Thanks peeps for all the notes on my previous post.. I have some good info to go on now for the next firing..and hopefully we can tweak the gas pressure enough to get a good result, the clay body used by others is out of my hands!!!

your help needed...

Here's the firing results from K9 on the wkd.... as you can see we have a rather large crack in the big pot and a tad over fired as I knocked the cones from their perch whilst adding some twigs to the firing only the cone 10 remained but i wasn't sure which cone it was until the unloading today.... belinda's dragon now has extra claws....

We did a pre warm up on friday evening and the pots were still warm sat morning when we lit the kiln again, it was still a long firing the kiln only has one pilot and one main burner its a 'port a kiln' model

and the firing log is below and ideas on the cracking issue...

any comments greatly appreciated.... I have done this to one of my pots before in a gas kiln and just assumed the firing was too fast and the shock too great....or is it a cooling crack???

Will get details about the clay body used soon....it looks fairly dense to me..

poured not swished...

Would you believe glaze incarnation #9????

 Poured not swished...It's variation is just overwhelming one might say!!!!! pfffft.. So anyhoo I'm liking the overlap areas and no crawling and no dunting so happy yes!!!???

 A little wax on wax off....lovely black satin glaze...

the new batch of glaze just lovely.....

and I quite like the old glaze batch remnants with less copper.....noice and very smooth 

more workin...

Casualty

A lil attempt at slipping these accidental TC platters, I say attempt coz it's been a long time coming... the slips have been mixed for ages and quite possibly had the slip too thick I'm still getting a feel for this and will def make thicker pieces next time I have a go......

hmmm one casualty and wont know til tomorrow if they survive i saw a rim crack today that I've smoothed and compressed...only time will tell really.. I feel they are a bit thin to take the slip treatment and if they survive, these will get a bit of scraffito action maybe tomorrow...

And a quick kiln face lift yesterday and today.. with some improvising as i ran out of buttons to hold the fibre in place with a few 1" props..

So just getting the door and flue back in place and I'm ready to go...woohoo!!

Finished this guy today too with some porcelain slip work and some mark making...now for the slow dry and mixing up some ash glaze :))

 On completion it was 50cm H x 46cm W