Joyce Lee on mon 19 feb 07
I'm still not sure exactly what "art glass" is...... or if it even is
glass at all. BUT I just bisque fired a bowl from my Marta Series in which
I placed several pieces&bits of some art glass. It fired to ^8 tipped, which
appears to be a maybe perfect temp for that glass (?). The reds are red,
the blues are blue and the variegated stayed true to its colors. Nice melt
patterns.
My art glass became mine because somebody broke one of those
knock-off Tiffany lamps with a very large, heavy glass (?) shade.
Lots of colors. This was my first attempt to fire them. Very satisfying.
I'm going to experiment more, at least at bisque temps.
And, yes, when (not if...... no longer IF) I finish a few more, I AM going
to take pictures and put them on my new blog site. Man!! Too much.
I'm beginning to feel much more comfortable with handbuilding, finding
something infinitely satisfying about that process ... (back to the days of
Getting Lost in the process.) Add to that .... starting to play with
my camera,
as suggested by many of you. And NOW I had to sign up for a blog site
in order to look at a claybud's work....... through Google. (Have you noted
that all these user-friendly programs are beginning to be a lot more
demanding??)
AND I have a new server, browser, e-mail program and something else new
.... each of which demands considerable focus on my part....... just when
I'd gotten into being Looser. Man!
Joyce
In the Mojave where snow was on the Sierras right outside my front window this
morning........ not deep...... but we could see it. Sun did its
normal bit today
anyway, and now the snow is all gone! That's about right for us desert mice.
More than a few days of the snow/rain/slush and we all complain mightily
because we can't play golf or tennis or get readier for the marathon or even
ride our bikes hard&fast getting muscles working for the long
bicycle trip from
Death Valley to Mt. Whitney.... lowest and highest points in the contiguous
United States... which is usually done in a few hours........... by
others.........
I, being of sound mind and broken body, observe
these idiosyncrasies while drinking iced tea from the temporary greenhouse
my car becomes during these too rare periods............
SPEAKING OF ICE TEA........somebody gave me a bottle.... b-i-i-iggg bottle
of the alcoholic Long Island Ice Tea. I poured maybe an inch with ice.....
fantastically delicious! Light, slightly sweet, mild citrus flavors, subdued
reminder of the rum that is in Big Letters on the front label........
my, my......
so I had another, maybe two inches this time......... what a deceptive
libation!! I think I'm going to have to try it in a glaze or slip or
wash.......
goodness gracious......... and damn......... that's good stuff..........
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