Denice

What Lee U said,  I am going out to  my shop to practice again and again.  I found a clay I like throwing three months ago, that has been a big help.  I threw a large set of dishes right before my MS messed up the motor control on my right arm.  I don't plan to do that again,  I just want to be able to thrown for fun or make something I need.  I am lucky that handbuilding was always my first love and that I never gave up working with clay.     Denice

I plan to do a boil freeze test in my freezer also.   The polar vortex has moved on and it is suppose to be 66 by Sunday and back down to 8 Wednesday.  Our weather has been this way all winter.  I am making glass discs that look like old bottles as part of the design.   I  making  the molds for the crush glass now and will start test firing my glass.   I plan to use clear beer bottles for the smaller outer discs and colored wine bottles for the center.   I need about 80 small discs and 20 large ones,  I am going to see if I can get  empty clear bottles from bars.  My husband volunteered  to drink that much beer but it would take him six months,  I don't want to wait that long.    Denice

I have used the Red Calico on a large exterior fountain before but it was glazed,  I was thinking I could put a clear on it if needed.   I ordered some clay from California to make a clay tile roof several years ago for a mailbox roof.  It was also a C6 clay and very coarse,  no glaze and I haven't had any problems with it.   By the time I got it shipped to Kansas it cost me a dollar a pound, I'm sure the costs would be higher now.  We are having some frigid weather this week  I think I'll boil a Red Calico pot and thrown it into some snow and leave it there for a couple of months.  I read a article about building a ceramic patio wall in a 1960's Ceramics Monthly years ago.  I have it stored on my old computer.  I need to spend some time searching for it I don't remember the year or month it was published.   Bill you are right about the membrane on a tile roof,  I had them put a rubber membrane under my tile roof when we built our house.  I didn't want my ceilings ruined  if the tiles were damaged by hail.  The roof is concrete tiles and breaks much easier than clay tiles.    Denice

Mostly throwing and trimming but I have a new project on my worktable.  I was at a concert in a historical theater last week and notice a grill in a huge arched window,  I have a arched opening on my front porch it needs art work  that will block the North wind.  I am working on a design for the tiles,  I want to put wine and beer bottle bottoms in the openings, they will block the wind, still let light through and still look like a Spanish grill.     I am thinking of using Laguna Red Calico,  it will be expose to nasty winters so if someone has a better idea  on clay I am all ears.    Denice

What Lee U said,  I am going out to  my shop to practice again and again.  I found a clay I like throwing three months ago, that has been a big help.  I threw a large set of dishes right before my MS messed up the motor control on my right arm.  I don't plan to do that again,  I just want to be able to thrown for fun or make something I need.  I am lucky that handbuilding was always my first love and that I never gave up working with clay.     Denice

I see myself standing in my studio wearing worn, stained raggedy clothes anxious to load my kiln and contemplating my next direction in clay.    Denice

What Lee U said,  I am going out to  my shop to practice again and again.  I found a clay I like throwing three months ago, that has been a big help.  I threw a large set of dishes right before my MS messed up the motor control on my right arm.  I don't plan to do that again,  I just want to be able to thrown for fun or make something I need.  I am lucky that handbuilding was always my first love and that I never gave up working with clay.     Denice

Nothing on my work table at the moment,  I straighten out my studio and stuck the new self adhesive labels on my chemical containers back on with some Gorilla tape.  I decided to try out my new pottery wheel stool and do a little throwing.  It seems to be alright,  I need to do some more throwing before I am positive.    It is so cold here I can't work in my studio until after noon,  it takes that long for my heater to warm it up.  It is suppose to start warming up tomorrow, it is still suppose to be  around 15 tonight.  BRR   Denice

Starting to load a glaze firing,  suppose to have a decent day Tuesday.  I like to open the window in the kiln room when I am firing.   I have a exhaust fan in the ceiling and the Skutt vent system on the kiln but when I am firing my big Skutt I need a little more air.    Denice

Been firing some more tests soluble salts and consecutive followups on good leads from tests. Pots on the left were fired at various temperatures in saggars and foil saggars. pots on the right were retired at 1700F. Additional coats on salts were added.
 

Like Roberta I would sketch everything out on a new design and this helped me work through potential problems.   I have been coiling the last few years and have been just going with the flow with them.  I thing coiled work has a mind of it's own,   I sketch designs on them in the bisque stage for my intricate glaze and stains patterns.   Denice

Like Roberta I would sketch everything out on a new design and this helped me work through potential problems.   I have been coiling the last few years and have been just going with the flow with them.  I thing coiled work has a mind of it's own,   I sketch designs on them in the bisque stage for my intricate glaze and stains patterns.   Denice

My love of clay started when I was 12,  I had a art teacher that thought I was artistic and was a big supporter.  One day she gave every one a ball of clay and told us to make anything we wanted.  Everyone else smashed out awful ashtrays,  my folks didn't believe in smoking.   I had been reading a book on Egypt and decided to make a Egyptian cat pendant for a necklace.  When I touched the clay I fell in love with it and the pendant was so beautiful  I knew clay was magic and I could make anything I wanted with it.  A few years later I was in high school where I could take a pottery class.  Great teacher,  I did a lot of hand building over the next three years.  Never got to throw on the wheel,  we only had one wheel and the teacher would pick a boy to teach  throwing to.   He didn't consider girls strong enough to throw.   I have tried many many different types of art but I always go back to clay.      Denice

My love of clay started when I was 12,  I had a art teacher that thought I was artistic and was a big supporter.  One day she gave every one a ball of clay and told us to make anything we wanted.  Everyone else smashed out awful ashtrays,  my folks didn't believe in smoking.   I had been reading a book on Egypt and decided to make a Egyptian cat pendant for a necklace.  When I touched the clay I fell in love with it and the pendant was so beautiful  I knew clay was magic and I could make anything I wanted with it.  A few years later I was in high school where I could take a pottery class.  Great teacher,  I did a lot of hand building over the next three years.  Never got to throw on the wheel,  we only had one wheel and the teacher would pick a boy to teach  throwing to.   He didn't consider girls strong enough to throw.   I have tried many many different types of art but I always go back to clay.      Denice

My love of clay started when I was 12,  I had a art teacher that thought I was artistic and was a big supporter.  One day she gave every one a ball of clay and told us to make anything we wanted.  Everyone else smashed out awful ashtrays,  my folks didn't believe in smoking.   I had been reading a book on Egypt and decided to make a Egyptian cat pendant for a necklace.  When I touched the clay I fell in love with it and the pendant was so beautiful  I knew clay was magic and I could make anything I wanted with it.  A few years later I was in high school where I could take a pottery class.  Great teacher,  I did a lot of hand building over the next three years.  Never got to throw on the wheel,  we only had one wheel and the teacher would pick a boy to teach  throwing to.   He didn't consider girls strong enough to throw.   I have tried many many different types of art but I always go back to clay.      Denice

My love of clay started when I was 12,  I had a art teacher that thought I was artistic and was a big supporter.  One day she gave every one a ball of clay and told us to make anything we wanted.  Everyone else smashed out awful ashtrays,  my folks didn't believe in smoking.   I had been reading a book on Egypt and decided to make a Egyptian cat pendant for a necklace.  When I touched the clay I fell in love with it and the pendant was so beautiful  I knew clay was magic and I could make anything I wanted with it.  A few years later I was in high school where I could take a pottery class.  Great teacher,  I did a lot of hand building over the next three years.  Never got to throw on the wheel,  we only had one wheel and the teacher would pick a boy to teach  throwing to.   He didn't consider girls strong enough to throw.   I have tried many many different types of art but I always go back to clay.      Denice

My love of clay started when I was 12,  I had a art teacher that thought I was artistic and was a big supporter.  One day she gave every one a ball of clay and told us to make anything we wanted.  Everyone else smashed out awful ashtrays,  my folks didn't believe in smoking.   I had been reading a book on Egypt and decided to make a Egyptian cat pendant for a necklace.  When I touched the clay I fell in love with it and the pendant was so beautiful  I knew clay was magic and I could make anything I wanted with it.  A few years later I was in high school where I could take a pottery class.  Great teacher,  I did a lot of hand building over the next three years.  Never got to throw on the wheel,  we only had one wheel and the teacher would pick a boy to teach  throwing to.   He didn't consider girls strong enough to throw.   I have tried many many different types of art but I always go back to clay.      Denice

Min that is similar to dishes I made for a friend of mine's daughter who had partial use of one arm.   My plate curved around more and eased into a rest for her hand, the family had asked for the built in rest.    I sold sets for several years to other families in the same situation,  I basically just covered cost.   My plate was based on a antique child's dish from England.   Denice

It sounds like the time I was starting to pack  a dozen gourd shape vases with long thin necks to take to a gallery.  I had just started wrapping one when a big gust of wind and pressure pushed through my studio.   It sent my vases crashing into each other and on to the concrete floor.    I wasn't aware that my husband was replacing the seals on the back door,  he gave the door one big slam to see how the seals were working.  I only had one vase that remained intact.  I decide that this particular shape of vase wasn't good for gallery sales.   Denice

It sounds like the time I was starting to pack  a dozen gourd shape vases with long thin necks to take to a gallery.  I had just started wrapping one when a big gust of wind and pressure pushed through my studio.   It sent my vases crashing into each other and on to the concrete floor.    I wasn't aware that my husband was replacing the seals on the back door,  he gave the door one big slam to see how the seals were working.  I only had one vase that remained intact.  I decide that this particular shape of vase wasn't good for gallery sales.   Denice

Min that is similar to dishes I made for a friend of mine's daughter who had partial use of one arm.   My plate curved around more and eased into a rest for her hand, the family had asked for the built in rest.    I sold sets for several years to other families in the same situation,  I basically just covered cost.   My plate was based on a antique child's dish from England.   Denice

Min that is similar to dishes I made for a friend of mine's daughter who had partial use of one arm.   My plate curved around more and eased into a rest for her hand, the family had asked for the built in rest.    I sold sets for several years to other families in the same situation,  I basically just covered cost.   My plate was based on a antique child's dish from England.   Denice

It sounds like the time I was starting to pack  a dozen gourd shape vases with long thin necks to take to a gallery.  I had just started wrapping one when a big gust of wind and pressure pushed through my studio.   It sent my vases crashing into each other and on to the concrete floor.    I wasn't aware that my husband was replacing the seals on the back door,  he gave the door one big slam to see how the seals were working.  I only had one vase that remained intact.  I decide that this particular shape of vase wasn't good for gallery sales.   Denice

Glazing a large coiled bowl with a intricate ancient Indian designs,  I will probably finish it today.   Denice

Adelaide Robineau,  Gertrud Natzer and Edith Heath.       Denice