Teapots

I am planning to make some tea pots soon, here are some that I like.





 

       

  

Fong Choo makes little tea pots, they are pretty sweet.  You can see how he makes them here.

Also, this is his web site.

More photos

Some stuff from the kiln.

Lanmans fake ash and Copper blue.

Lanmans base with Rutile, a tiny but of cobalt over plane base and Copper.

An overview.

Some new glazes:  Leroi's ash,  Copper blue under Tosicka black, and Tosicka black.

They are all lined with Frazer celadon.

  

Both of these are lanman fake ash, the difference is in application and firing.  The one on the right is a thicker application and normal reduction and the other is normal application and heavy reduction.  

              Here are two lid variations.  More work to come on this.

This is Frazer celadon.   I know, I know, celadon looks nasty on stoneware, but this glaze is so glassy smooth I just had to.   Next time Im going to make some out of porcelain.

Done! Now start over.

    

Here's the stack on Monday afternoon just after I finished loading, and Thursday night after the firing and cooling off.  This kiln came out just about right, it was even and well reduced.   Only one piece dripped onto the shelf.   

More pictures to come as soon as I can get them to upload. For some reason only these two worked.

Today I made more four more big buckets of glaze, now I am out of buckets.  So, now Ill just have to make test batches. 

Its time to make more clay and go through the entire process again.  

More of the same

Im still glazing...............     

This is everything I have glazed so far (not including what went into the salt kiln), and my glazing table.   Im not doing anything too complicated with glazing, but there are still so many steps involved in the process:  I have to 

>wipe all the dust off the pots  

>wax the feet 

 >glaze the inside

 >the clean up any glaze that dripped onto the outside  

>wax the top part of the inside  

 >glaze the outside

Sometime I would like to calculate how much time is spent on each piece, from making the clay all the way to unloading the kiln.   

I think in the second half of the semester I should fire smaller amounts more often, glazing everything at once is a pain.  Plus there are times when I have been throwing for ages that I just want to glaze something for a change. 

  Variety is the spice of life, right?

KCAI Kilns

  This is the soda kiln and the forced air kiln, with the natural draft kiln in the background.

In addition there is a little soda kiln and a big catenary salt kiln.  Plus lots of barrel electrics and 4 or 5 oval electrics.  Most of them just have sitters, but a few have computer controllers. 

If I could change anything I would want a little gas kiln, 2-3 times the size of the soda kiln, and no salt/soda kilns inside!

All-Fat Wheat Middlings

I can post pictures again!  I have no idea what happened.

 Anyway, this is a quilt (graduation present from my sister) that my family made for me. Its all cloth from when I was little, every piece has a story.  What a wonderful present, thank you Ali, I love it!

The last step

Soooooo......   the tests came out of the kiln last week. Unfortunately I cant seem to get any images up.   I did the same thing as for the other photos Ive posted, but for some reason it doesn't work now.   I gave up, because I was getting really angry.   

It has been a long time since I made anything new, and I'm getting antsy.  Plus I will be firing a kiln that I haven't used before, and EVERYTHING Ive made so far will be in it.   This week will require lots of blind faith, and some caffeine. 

 I just hope next week doesn't require lots of trash cans, and a hammer.