Last bisque firing

I fired the final 18 peat slices in Jeff, at 1000 degrees on Wednesday. He was around 300 today and cooling so I’ll empty tomorrow and load more boxes of bisque fired peat slices into the car for firing over the holiday. My porch is crammed with bags of burning peat, a raku kiln, Tongs, …

This week’s studio

I worked all weekend to get as many peat slices finished to dry in time for the kiln I've booked on Thursday, Jeff.  I enjoyed presenting Kate's work on Monday via Skype, and getting to know what she is doing and why. And vice versa, hearing about my work from another view point. Kate would …

Week of studio

The first 13 peat slicers came out of Jeff (the kiln) successfully for the bisque firing. I've made the photos black and white to help me look at the patterns of the stack and the light and shade. I'm hoping now to be able to work out how I want to stack and how much …

Week of studio

Wednesday 14th November Slight chaos is reigning in the studio I'm getting ready to fill a kiln on Sunday for a bisque firing, I've a mixture of slip cast  and press moulded peat slices. I've been using a couple of metal tools to explore metal tool marks on the clay, as the tairsgeir would mark …

Flasks bisqued

The 14 porcelain flasks went into a bisque firing on Thursday. The ink seems stable, I will put them into a final firing to vitrify them. I started on the parian flasks, I'll try to make at least 15. Porcelain flasks out of the kiln after bisque firing  

Decal the first 12 flasks: progress updates added to post

I put the kiln on for the first time myself today woo hoo. I put all 12 flasks in just to keep everything moving and thought I would glaze them and decal them. Next week I'll make another 12 that I will screen print text on to the plastic slab before assembly, let dry off, …