when the snow is on the kayak
Nov. 22nd, 2010 11:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jinianLots of snow today, in weather unusually cold and dry but not so much as to prevent icy roads and sidewalks. Took ages to get to and from pottery class, but I did go, joining one other student who'd walked in. Sheesh.
A favorite graffiti corner is nearly developing a narrative. Totoro was first, followed by the cosmonaut, then the DNA ouroborous, I think.
I tried getting pictures of the evergreens in snow, but none showed what I saw. Here are a couple of nice angiosperms, though, one curvy and one spidery.
A few items are still unfired, including the African-violet pot -- here the inner pot is too far up, but I sanded it down and it now fits in correctly. Hope the glaze on the outer pot doesn't make it fail to fit again; sanded a little extra.
Loads of things got bisqued this week! Hurrah! Here are their wax-painted bottoms. You do this so that when you dip them in the glaze it's easier to remove all glaze from the bottom part. If glaze is on the bottom or drips down, your piece sticks onto the kiln and it's bad news for everyone, especially the pot.
My glazing disaster: dipping the outside, I pushed a little too hard and flooded the interior. Should look interesting. There's an awful lot of glaze on the outside, and I'm concerned that it'll drip. I guess I'll find out. You can see at the bottom outside where I wiped the edge; this is celadon glaze, and it went whitish wherever it was brush-applied or wiped. (Those smudges inside are finger marks from where I was holding it when the flood occurred.)
Someone else's disaster waiting to happen: I didn't notice until I was cropping my photos, but whoever wrote this note may have effects they weren't intending -- what they've written as "new black" is actually "new blanc" and fires white. (The "celedon" error isn't their fault; that's what the bucket says.)
All my pieces I'm glazing this week! Lots of them have a slapdash look, since I'm not very good at this yet, and I kept getting cool drippy effects and being unable to resist keeping them. There is a pair of Goofus and Gallant mugs that mostly match. :)
The maple leaf bowl was bisqued and looks great, but the glaze I wanted to use was out so I'm waiting for it to be remade. It's the NW Shino, a white overall color and rusty where it "breaks" over uneven bits. I'm hoping it'll highlight the leaf impressions.
And here are the whale skulls I moved at the Burke from when![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
hattifattener and marzipan_pig and I went on Saturday. Lots of great mammal stuff, plus people I knew sharing department gossip and carrion-beetle stories.
A favorite graffiti corner is nearly developing a narrative. Totoro was first, followed by the cosmonaut, then the DNA ouroborous, I think.
I tried getting pictures of the evergreens in snow, but none showed what I saw. Here are a couple of nice angiosperms, though, one curvy and one spidery.
A few items are still unfired, including the African-violet pot -- here the inner pot is too far up, but I sanded it down and it now fits in correctly. Hope the glaze on the outer pot doesn't make it fail to fit again; sanded a little extra.
Loads of things got bisqued this week! Hurrah! Here are their wax-painted bottoms. You do this so that when you dip them in the glaze it's easier to remove all glaze from the bottom part. If glaze is on the bottom or drips down, your piece sticks onto the kiln and it's bad news for everyone, especially the pot.
My glazing disaster: dipping the outside, I pushed a little too hard and flooded the interior. Should look interesting. There's an awful lot of glaze on the outside, and I'm concerned that it'll drip. I guess I'll find out. You can see at the bottom outside where I wiped the edge; this is celadon glaze, and it went whitish wherever it was brush-applied or wiped. (Those smudges inside are finger marks from where I was holding it when the flood occurred.)
Someone else's disaster waiting to happen: I didn't notice until I was cropping my photos, but whoever wrote this note may have effects they weren't intending -- what they've written as "new black" is actually "new blanc" and fires white. (The "celedon" error isn't their fault; that's what the bucket says.)
All my pieces I'm glazing this week! Lots of them have a slapdash look, since I'm not very good at this yet, and I kept getting cool drippy effects and being unable to resist keeping them. There is a pair of Goofus and Gallant mugs that mostly match. :)
The maple leaf bowl was bisqued and looks great, but the glaze I wanted to use was out so I'm waiting for it to be remade. It's the NW Shino, a white overall color and rusty where it "breaks" over uneven bits. I'm hoping it'll highlight the leaf impressions.
And here are the whale skulls I moved at the Burke from when
hattifattener and marzipan_pig and I went on Saturday. Lots of great mammal stuff, plus people I knew sharing department gossip and carrion-beetle stories.
