Wildlife Pottery and New Glazes

Everyone is back to work in the studio and it is so interesting to open the kiln and see the different styles of each person's work. Ev has been working on some big wildlife pieces and they turned out really beautiful. Karen has really started to enjoy the glazing process and has done some lovely sushi sets. Ev and I have been working on some hummingbird designs for the Bull River Guest Ranch.

I enjoy seeing what our new glazes do on different clay bodies and how the glazes interact with each other.

Thanks for stopping by

Caroline  

The Baja Frog is back home!!!!

Ev has been busy since she got home after 5 months away. These are just a few pieces that she has been working on. Hopefully next weekend we will all get together at the studio. I am looking forward to all of us working on a combined project.
Welcome home Ev and Karen we hope you get over that cold soon so you can come out and play!!!
Thanks for stopping by
Caroline 

March pottery

I think Karen is going to love the way this sushi set turned out.

One very large  tray made specially for Rob and Kari for their housewarming gift.

Two snack plates for some very special little girls!!!

Someone has the blues.

 

Bear oval platter and a red heart baker

I hope Karen likes how these glazes turned out?

I really like the glazes on this little set,the glaze goes from matte to shiny ..

This is what came out of the kiln yesterday. A friend helped me unload the kiln and now would like to be there everytime we unload. She agreed that it is as exciting as unwrapping gifts at Christmas.
Each shelf you take off reveals another surprise. I will give you a call Gina the next time we unload a glaze fire.
Thanks for stopping by
Caroline

Working with Red Clay

Loaf baker

Divided bowl

Red Poll
These are some of the pieces I made yesterday, I wanted to make some pieces using red clay so I can try
out our new glazes combos on a different clay body and see what we get for results. I had made a bunch of new stamps and have had lots of fun trying them out. Now I just need to clean  all the new pieces up and let them dry.  On the way over to the studio this little red poll was sitting in our cedar tree, I just had to snap a picture of it to share with you.
Thanks for stopping by.

Large serving tray

 

 

What came out of the kiln today

This is what came out of the kiln today. I think we got some really good glazing results.
I had two pieces where the glaze was too thick on the bottom and it stuck to the kiln shelf taking a chuck of the piece with it. That didn't make me too happy. Thank goodness I can salvage both pieces and I had just applied kiln wash to the shelves so it was easy to clean off. Just another learning curve!!!Thanks for stopping by.
Caroline

Happy Days

Today has been a good day.I opened the kiln this morning and I have to say that I was quite happy with the glazes.I really love the way the glaze came out on the divided bowl.The bean pot ,wine cooler and the big serving bakers all survived without a crack.. I quess you might be able to tell who has been making some leaves.I also really love the way the glaze turned out on them.Now I just hope Karen will as well.The Baja frog is now in Arizona and I am told that she is looking forward to coming home and starting back into the pottery.She will be happy to hear that the sun is shining here today and we woke up to hearing a redwinged blackbird singing.Spring is on its way. Thanks for stopping by!! Caroline

Loving some of the new glaze combos

I love the warm tones of the bowl with the dragonfly and the glaze on the wavy bowls.

The bowl in the back is a new glaze we are trying called tempest blue.

A wine cooler with dragonflies,I like this glaze combo.

Karen's large tray with birch trees.

I wonder who likes leaves and chartruese!!! Could it be Karen???

I tryed out a new glaze combo on this tray,lots of movement.I still find it hard to get good photos ....another learning curve!!!

Teamwork

Karen and I had a great weekend doing pottery, after all it was the Super Bowl weekend! However our plan was to make bakers with both of us passing our piece on to each other. We each made three bottoms and then passed it over to the other person and they would add the walls.Then we got our piece back and we added handles.Not all of them ended up being bakers,some turned into large serving trays.... What a fun project. Teamwork at its best!! We want to do this project again when Ev gets home from Mexico. Karen also threw me 4 cylinders on the wheel which I turned into a small brie baker,a peanut butter feeder,a flowerpot and of course a birdhouse. Thanks for stopping by. Caroline

Pottery- a lesson in patience

I have been working on some larger pieces and realized that pottery is about learning patience. The studio is quite cool and that makes for a slow drying process.These pieces will take quite awhile before they are ready for the kiln. In the meantime I have loaded the kiln with greenware that is dry and I hope to do a bisque firing tomorrow. Thanks for stopping by Caroline