A Bloody Canvas
This glaze
is a result of a Saturday night conversation with Grass and Ms. Grass Keeper.
They both have no trouble spending my money. Grass suggested that I try
titanium and $$$tin together. I was
expecting a beautiful white on white and got this beautiful titanium blue with
white ice islands. I tried the same glaze with a line blend of copper carb and
decided on 2% hence the copper red. I
always put a layer of shino down first which adds an additional flux to the
glaze above. It can run like a deer so I’ve kept it mostly in the inside of
bowls and plates.
During our
Saturday night chat there was also some discontent from Grass that I had
mentioned I was moving from the kitchen to the living room. Functional pots are deeply rooted in my bones
and although I did make the plates with the Dick Aerni undercut foot for
hanging on the wall I looked at them on the table and they seemed to scream
Cheese, please. It seems to me the best
of two worlds when you can hang something on the wall and then actually use it.
I remember
once at Ronnie the Rats seeing a pile of his wonderful drawings. I said why don’t
you sell these drawings? They’re great! Ronnie answered why would anyone buy a
painting when they can have a pot with a drawing on it? I’ll be spending the
next couple of days packing pots for the Minnesota Potters Festival at Tom and
Betsy’s Clay Coyote. It will be great to be amongst friends.
I just
finished Edmund de Waal’s The White Road. For those of you like me that tried
his best selling novel The Hare with the Amber Eyes and couldn’t finish it give
him another chance. This book is a really great read and a must for potters
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