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Pre-Spring Glazing

I don’t usually do much glazing until Spring, but I have some custom work that needs to get done. But yesterday, I glazed up everything that has a new home awaiting and I hope to fire them yet today. My normal process gets almost an entire years worth of sale...

Throw, Trim, Fire, Glaze, Repeat

Just short of a month before the Bluff Country Studio Art Tour, I’m busy getting inventory ready for the tour which is my first show of the year. I never feel like I have enough inventory for upcoming shows, and this one is no different. So I’ll continue...

Grrrr

Today I managed to get several custom order plates glazed and ready to fire. Unfortunately, in loading the kiln I lost one of the plates by dropping a shelf post on it. Good thing I made a few extras when I was throwing them. Now I’ll just need to get one of the...

Studio progress

After the cold, rainy, snowy, dreary days we’ve had in Minnesota lately, I was very grateful for the cool but sunny day we had yesterday. Yesterday was a glazing day and it worked great to use my deck railing as additional drying space for pots that had been...

Glazing Flurry

With two one-day sales this weekend and a weekend sale next week, I’ve been a glazing cyclone the past couple weeks. I unloaded a glaze load last night and here is a vase from that firing. A month ago I mixed up a new blue and have been testing it in combination...