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Thursday, February 3, 2011

Clay play time

Today was play time with clay at Pam's house.  I haven't been there for 3 weeks, and had no idea where to start. But, she had bisque fired J's pieces and a couple of mine, so it was obviously glaze time.  I glazed Jordan's tiny little tray with Randy's red and her pencil holder with Opal.  Then I glazed one of my little bird plates with Opal followed by BB.  But, the blue didn't go on well at all.  Almost immediately, it began cracking and was just yuck.  I told Pam that if it still looked horrible when she was ready to fire the next load to just wash the glaze off and I would start over.  I also did some tedious underglazing with Amaco velvet underglazes on a plate that I made.   Then, before I knew it, playtime was over. 

I still haven't brought my kiln to anyone to repair it yet.  I talked to someone, but Pam gave me another name and will talk to him to get another estimate for work. 

1 comment:

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