Raku

Ah, spring brings the smell of pots smoking in the reduction cans.

I love raku, spring and raku firings go hand in hand. I don't know what I like more, spring or fall raku. Here is my favorite piece from today afterschool. It is now in a special spot in the family room.

Cryolite chattered bowls

Bowls bisque fired to cone 05. Now it's time to cover with a transparent glaze and fired to cone 5 to see some magic.

Lady

I like to go back into previous watercolor sketches and refine them with pen and ink. In doing this today, I thumbed through sketches and found profiles of women rare in the body of work I've created. So, I chose this one to refine and now will try to purposefully create more feminine profiles in my future drawings. Doing this will balance out gender in larger works with multiple people.

Chattered with Cryolite

These bowls are the latest experiment with cryolite on forms. I sprinkled dry cryolite onto the initial thrown form then chattered back in to create interesting patterns.

The second wave

More smiles happened today as we delivered the second waves of flowers and hand-thrown vases.

Brightening their day

wow....this picture says it all!

Flowers for the Elderly

Here are simple cone 5 vases colored with Dekalb slip and clear glaze. The are fresh out of the kiln and ready to have roses arranged and placed in the them.

Students are going with me today to deliver the first round of these to the elderly diagnosed with Alzheimer's in care at Brighton Gardens.