joyce on sat 29 dec 07
I've been looking at sites again......... just saw Dale's pots!
He's right - they are great! Lordamercy, what talent we
have here on this List!
After looking at Mel's site again, Hank's, Tony's and others, wouldn't
you know it........ looks like I'll ring in another New Year by
mixing more shinos with and without soda ash, as well as one
batch with double the soda ash. I have new batches of tenmokus, coppers
and celadons ready to enhance the many shelves of bisque that await
them.......... and me. In the meantime......... today.......... I must find
my containers of Kurt's salts and get going on those again once I
bisque the new platters. Haven't really made platters before, but Mel's
words about offering platters at his Home Sale inspired me and now I
have 8 probably dried from yesterday.
Also I need to think about my shinoed Dannon Bowl .... continuing to
examine possibilities of achieving that silvery strip around its top
edge. It appears to come from some way she works with the shino,
rather than one of the metallic glazes being added and then
re-fired. Doesn't matter whether I get it or not; it'll be great fun to
try.
Joyce
In the Mojave Desert of California where each of my fence posts has
a majestic, shiny, huge raven perched......... waiting for the thermal
winds to hit just right so they can fly to the top and float down into the 90
empty acres across the road. They repeat this over&over&over as long
as the thermal lasts ..... like kids climbing to the top of the snow-covered
hill, climbing tiredly once more onto their sleds and then enjoying the
downward slide so much that they have to trudge back up Just One More Time.
Mama Luce was right........ once again.............. no, Mama,
I don't want my face to freeze that way...... and I do get it that the
only way it'll unfreeze, once frozen, is for the devil to do the job.......
and I'm pretty sure I won't like his methods........... and I know I
won't enjoy the location ...... the desert in August is close enough
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