Joseph Fireborn

Nice. I plan on eventually adding more color to my work, but for now I am going to just explore these white/grey/brown tones.

Need to do that.

I bet your having a great Christmas with your little one running around the tree!  Denice

And a Happy New Year!!!

Yes happy new year to all

I clean it every day, it takes 30 minutes of my precious time but it is totally worth it

I don't usually make much of a mess, but I had glaze on the floor, and clay everywhere. A good 2 hours of mopping and scrubbing everything down.

My problem is I work out there after my son's bedtime ... by the time I'm done it's 1 am and I'm too tired to clean up my mess. Then the problem builds. Clay is so messy.

take it easy, virus's have a way of coming back

Thanks for all the good wishes! Hope you all are doing well also.

Welp. Just finished spraying after 3.5 weeks of not touching a pot. Trying some new glaze combinations.

Haha, I'm glad I'm not the only one.

Haven't had a good pottery dream for a while.

My only pottery dreams have consisted of me burning things down with kilns more worry than inspiration.

i found a firing schedule from Perry at Skutt for ^5, just take it to your cone temp.. ill try to post it in my gallery..

segment 1 rate 200 Temp 250 hold none

Segment 2 Rate 400 Temp 1000 no hold

Segment

Segment 3 Rate 180 Temp 1150 no hold = adjust if you are need/want more burn off..

Segment 4 Rate 300 Temp 1967 Hold none

Segment 5 120 Temp 2160 {^5} adjustable =Hold 5 minutes

Segment 6 Rate 125 Temp 1900 Hold 45 minutes

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Well, personally, I could do without the cleaning...

Hahaha, wife works, I stay home with my son all day. Cleaning is my duty!

Looking after family and home while making pottery, sound great to me

me, three!   hope all the folks around you are well and that you are happy.

four and surely there are more 

Hi Joseph! Greetings from Montana. Hope all is well. We have a lot of smoke blowing in from CA, Idaho and Oregon. Very dry here.

My studio was in a small building in our back yard when my son was a baby,   they didn't have baby monitors yet but I had this weird radio system.    I would work in my studio and listen to him sleep,  when he woke I would here giggling  and playing.   I knew my time was limited.  I would start cleaning up and head on into the house about the time of the first cry.   He started walking at 8 months old so I really enjoyed listening to him and not having to follow him around the house.     Denice

My son will be walking next month for sure. He is already standing up on his own and balancing!

They're intense at that age! The work gets slower, but it still happens. 

That moment when you go into your studio and throw away all the test mugs and cups youve been making over the last year, then realize your trashbag is to heavy to pick up out of the trash can. The sound of funky blues playing in the background and the sudden urge to throw yunomi off the hump. Life is perfect.

Patience always pays off.

i hope so. lots of work ahead of me.

Mine gets horribly gritty dusty,and not from clay. It blows in from the window into the yard.

Yea. I had more leaves and pollen then dust. I open the garage during the day to get fresh air and hear the birds sing and let my dog lay on the driveway. The wind blows it all in, rather annoying.

Exactly what happens with mine! As if pottery wasn't messy enough already!

So happy that you had that good experience, Joseph!

posted the final glaze surface of all my testing in my gallery, three close ups of a cup. perfectly glossy and within limits. CAN it get any better... I am sure it can, more test to come.

Yes. Great isn't it!

Thanks Denice. Roberta: good news!

I read it when I was starting out formulating my own glazes. It's a great book.

Smoke'em if you got 'em....

Next time you are on the wheel, try dipping your finger into rio and make finger marks. See if it does any thing for you.

Beware, underglaze can be addictive. Use with caution!

I will try that Nerd. Roberta, we will see!

I have had a week like that,  I am still managing to get a little done in my studio everyday.   Maybe next week I won't be so busy.  Denice

Welp. Got stuff done today. Sprayed and lined an entire kiln load. Hopefully if everything comes out good I will be listing it all. It excites me that I used only 2 glazes! hahah. 

Peeped into my peep holes. Beautiful greys!

I am happy for you  also, I know you have been working towards this moment and all of your hard work paid off.  Denice

Photos???

@Marcia Selsor I know! It is raining here and I was planning on spraying and cleaning up a bit. Instead I am just going to throw all day.

@Denice Thanks!

@Roberta12 umm, you can check my gallery or my instagram link in (profile.)

I know! I emailed him immediately, but it looks like his etsy shop is closed and his facebook hasn't been updated in a while. I am guessing maybe he is out of the business or has moved on?

I saw a lot of people on Etsy are now selling the same type of tool, but his craft was so good. Hard to accept moving on!

The handle fits my hand so very well.

I'm guessing that the carbide broke when you dropped it...how many pieces? If you have any welding experience, you may be able to silver solder the pieces back together and grind the joints to the original cross-section. Otherwise consider taking it to someone that does have such experience...

Hah! P5 throws so great. Literally it does exactly what I want everytime and just feels so good.

Glad you found your sweet spot clay as well.

Yessss, exactly. It's like magic mud glory for the Lord.

Enjoy, learn much!

Wow-what an opportunity--good for you!

maybe. still have a lot of work to do to find components that go with the glaze. A darker version to spray over, modifiers and fake ash glazes. but yea. the journey for a base might be near. which makes me happy tbh.

At the end of the road lies another. Unless it's a dead end xD

Or your driveway. = )

Finalizing glaze recipes is part of the process.

I think my work is going to go in a different direction for a while. I am interested in exploring some of the surfaces I got in my firing. Most of the pieces were poop, but there are spots on the pieces that are beautiful and very interesting.

Can't wait to see your results good or bad.

If you want to see my pots here ya go: http://s1183.photobucket.com/user/josephrosenblatt/library/First Firing of 2016

Wonderful results! I love the dark one with the tiny silver dapples, but my very favorite is the black/red one that looks like strips of fabric are wrapped around the cup under the glaze. Wonderful.

thanks for the kind words

Ooooh, that Akira Satake. i had to google, hehe. he has such intuitive work. I think. I have so much to learn.

Wow, what beautiful objects. I just googled Akira. Enjoy the workshop Grype!

TOMORROW!

I guess I will have to get a subscription to this stuff once I go production. It is just too valuable.

Welp. You can't beat 14 bucks for 180 days of awesome insight.

I will feel more magical when I get the results out of the kiln later this upcoming week. I will fire it tomorrow. I think one of them is a bit too thick. So only time will tell. But it was easier than I thought it was to mix the stuff together, at least a test batch of 400G.

post the results.

Where at? In my gallery?