The Maturing of a Wood Kiln
It's Saturday night andI just might miss listening to the Blues tonight. I'm feeling rather knackered. I hosted Heather Smit and Jen Allen week long workshops as well as firing Cassius Clay the weekend in between. It was a scaled down version of the Cactus Lounge Flame Throwers but they are all seasoned professionals by now. We have probably fired 20 times together. I've lost count!
Every one on the team had some awesome pots and I'm just going to show you two each. Their cars were loaded to the roof with nice pots. Beautiful clean surfaces fired hot and crash cooled for 40 minutes. Let's have the pots do the talking.
Chris de Takesy pink vase
Cassius Clay is delivering some awesome surfaces at this point. The crew is learning the ways of firing the kiln and I think the bricks are now nicely impregnated with ash. I too have matured. I no longer like huge ash deposits. I also don't like how the heavy ashing washes out the glazes. Just like there is a right weight for a pot not too heavy and not too light I think the same for the ashing of the pots I enjoy from our wood kiln.
Every one on the team had some awesome pots and I'm just going to show you two each. Their cars were loaded to the roof with nice pots. Beautiful clean surfaces fired hot and crash cooled for 40 minutes. Let's have the pots do the talking.
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| Chris de Takesy- large bowl |
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| Cassara Kennedy - great spout cut and altered |
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| Cassara Kennedy- cut and altered |
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| Jen Drysdale- Jen actually glazes. |
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| Jen Drysdale- Ewer and saucer |
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| Gen no e Patchell -aggreesive faceting |
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| Gen no e Patchell- figure of her loading the kiln. |
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| Teresa Dunlop- rock sculpture dark stoneware |
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| Teresa Dunlop- Rock Sculpture- Helmer body |
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| Moi- handle with mallet vase attached. |
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| Mallet vase- shino bleached out by excessive ash. |
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| Some wee swirl cups I made for Takuro and Hitomi Shibata so they can handle their sake. |
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