Gas Firing - September 29, 2012 - Loading The Kiln
I was able to create enough work to fill the kiln again. The pressures of the day job and summer family plans caused making forms to slow to a crawl. As this can be frustrating at times, it fits me well. And let me sing the praises of Laguna's B-Mix clay. It has taken me some time for this clay body and me to become friends, but now that I have learned how to cope with the clay's intricacies, I appreciate how the clay is very slow to dry. I can make a teapot body and keep it in a leather-hard state for weeks under dry cleaner garment bags. As I have been invited to be a guest artist at Windblown Studio during this year's fall Potters Tour, October 19-20, in Western Pennsylvania , I needed to kick up production during August and September. For information on the Tour go to: http://www.potterstour.com/index.htm I loaded the kiln on Saturday (28) and fired it on Sunday (29). Here are a few of the kiln loading pictures. I will post t...