Had a good afternoon at the Studio today. I did some raku firing after quickly making up a new glaze to test. The new kiln lid held up well, and the glaze came out close to what I was looking for, more experiments to follow… Continue reading Good Afternoon
Some pots and pods from this week’s raku firing. Continue reading Pots and Pods
As it was such a nice day, I though I would do a quick raku firing. Continue reading Nice day for a firing
Cheers to Martin for all the great photos of last sunday, Marlene and her students had some good results and the public made some great pinch pots. Click the image above for more images of the day. Continue reading Summer Fayre – Action Shots and results
On Sunday 9th June 2013 at the Oaklands College Summer Fayre, I will be demonstrating Raku firing with Marlene Tanti and her ceramics students. Continue reading Raku Firing – Sunday 9th June 2013
I built a quick sawdust kiln, this time adding some chicken wire between the levels to support the work to stop the sawdust getting too compressed. Set it on fire and left it covered for a few hours for the smoke to do its thing. When all the sawdust had burnt away I was left with pile of fired pieces rady to reassemble. Using some potters glue and some epoxy resin I rebuilt them. Like this… I am quite pleased with the results 🙂 Continue reading Spring Sawdust Firing
I attempted to sawdust fire some larger pieces the other day but sadly both cracked during the firing. Bah. I suspect that they both cracked due to the uneven heating in the sawdust, they got a bit too much air in the bottom and got very hot very quickly. Still, I am looking forward to some more experimenting. Continue reading Firing Fail
A couple of pics of the results of the recent sawdust firing: Just fired After cleaning and polishing: Triangular Form Surface Texture Seed Form Continue reading Sawdust Fired
Did a spot of sawdust firing today for some burnished pieces I have been working on. The kiln is quite simple, just made from bricks, a paving slab, some kiln props and a sheet of metal as a lid (cheers Phil). Continue reading Sawdust Firing
