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    Cooking new things, especially vegetables I am not familiar with, starting a garden, reading, my sketchbook, writing, hiking and camping

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  1. LT i was looking at the cups really closely and thinking what you are thinking because the bleeding is so uniform in the first set of cups. Almost like a perfect outline width of bleeding. When i had bleeding it was more like the white cups. Wonder if they didn’t like the bleeding and so applied gold on top.
  2. i haven’t done this in a while but if i remember right the black mostly bled and i think a dark almost black blue bled. does the clear move? i achieved the bleeding by applying the underglaze and immediately applying the clear glaze. lots of it - but not too much to cause the cloudiness. thin lines have not bled that much. thicker lines with 3 or 4 coates of ug has bled. if i want the design to move i’ve applied glaze and then applied underglaze (though mostly cobalt) on top of the glaze. it does not bleed. it just shifts. also if i remember right, my walls bled, not the floors of the pots. good luck!!!
  3. Hey! Welcome back, Preeta! I missed your contributions. What are you up to now?

    1. oldlady

      oldlady

      yes!   glad to see you back.   hope all was well during your absence.  miss photos of your work.

    2. preeta

      preeta

      Awww thank you guys. Just have had a lot going on. Mainly my teenage daughter's medical issues. Just trying to find answers which we are close to finally after suffering for 5 years.  

      Taking a principals of cooking class (3 hours straight standing and cooking. I loved every minute of it but it was only on the way back home the exhaustion would hit me) , starting a garden at a community plot plus working more. 

      I've taken all the community college classes in clay so now I volunteer to keep using the lab. So I have had no free time.  Plus i really got into researching the political world. I had to leave that now because it got too depressing (But thanks to Vaclav Havel i havent lost hope) and so I'm back here.  

      Clay is my first love and you guys are a great bunch to hang out with. I've missed the clay talk. So I've come home.  

      I love this sense of community. I found that in culinary and gardening as well as clay. 

      Eeh one day I'll have the guts to post pictures of my work.  I've got the form to where I like it but now am working on the skin I'd like to complete my work. I love our gas kiln. I've also finally accepted who I am as a potter. Which influence I want to show more. My political research helped me with that. I was grateful to find my voice of protest through my pottery. Now finally as a potter I am at peace.  

    3. Rae Reich

      Rae Reich

      Wow! What a lot of new input for your clay work - will we see "message" veggie steamers? Serving dishes for Peace? With all the talk about "kitchen table issues," the table surely is where community begins.

      Love and best wishes to you and your family 

      Rae

  4. Briana you are a newbie you said. I’d say forget about keeping. Forget about firing. Just keep throwing. And trimming and then slicing in half to check for area of improvement. It’s been 2 1/2 years since I first touched the wheel. I have kept none of the murder weapons from my first year. I’ve always kept one piece from each semester to see how good I’ve gotten, but otherwise I’ve given away (mostly) sold (a few) almost all my pots. I do bring them home to use to see what I like. So at the end of my semester I do a drastic cut of what I had at home from the previous semester. In the meantime try to find a studio or potter who will bisque for you.
  5. As long as you keep good notes and know exactly what you knew when you trimmed the pot then time is no limit. However know that bone dried greenware is the most fragile state of clay to be moving around. Pack well but be prepared to lose some stuff. The other thing is sometimes you create cracks from too much handling that you might not see till after the glaze firing. So watch out for the ping after bisque. If you hear a thud or dull sound then either throw out or use it for glaze test. I have know people who have fired after 5 years. But they hadn’t moved and they had notes.
  6. marcia this is AMAZING!!! i love it. i always enjoy texture. Now off to your gallery to see if i can spot these in their full form. i have been checking your site out and am really getting interested in alternative firing.
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