Joyce Lee on wed 24 nov 99
To all those who posted, some eleven of you as of now..... no, my goal
is not "faster firings". Are you kidding? I just want to reach the
predicted cone with at least a few pots standing upright, gorgeous and
showing signs of having kept their clothes on during the process. I did
candle for several hours. My kiln is new, but it's the third kiln to
which we've applied ITC so I'm interested in seeing what that refractory
can do, and how the firings change. I intend to slow the process now
that ..... well, I started to say now that I know how fast it gets to
^10, my original objective..... but why should I? The firing was
successful, and the copper red/purple looks fine. As of now, this
particular minute, I have no plans to change anything and won't until
this schedule doesn't work for me... which may be tomorrow, of course,
given my unscientific approach to clay. I'll probably be back on after
today's firing whining again, but that tendency has lessened now that
I've accepted my non-artist status, and that a craftpersons life is
challenge enough. Wonder, though, why I'm taking watercolor/collage with
a mentor? And with Sylvia who IS an artist? Maybe there is a masochistic
bone there somewhere?
Joyce
In the Mojave loving the crisp feeling in the air ... teasing us that we
may actually have a winter longer than 4 days.....recalling seasons of
Kentucky mountains as a girl...can't be in two places.....or a dozen...
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