Saturday, February 4, 2012

Friday Night Kiln Unloading

Lots of hoops, links and beads, including tube beads, heart beads, whales, fishes and birds... all in spring / summer palette.





12 comments :

  1. Oooooooooo! I want to jump into the photo and steal all your beads!

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  2. Wow! I am amazed by how you can fit so much into a firing. Very cool way to stack those things in there. Does the glaze ever drip onto pieces below? I don't really know how it acts when fired...

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  3. Yummy colors! I love seeing photos of beads coming out of the kiln! It looks like you've perfected the pack and stack process to get everything in.

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  4. This is the top bottom shelf - there was another whole shelf about this, though shorter, with horizontal racks! As for glaze dripping, I use only glazes that DON'T drip, at lease for jewelry components. I have some recipes I use for pottery that are drippy but I spray those on and keep the layers thin enough to control it.

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  5. Karen,
    That is amazing. Thank you for giving us an insight into the process. Tell me, how much time is represented in preparing the pieces in the photo for firing.

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  7. Those are all fantastic! Love the whales, esp - so cute and clever!

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  8. hmm... this load was about 3 weeks of work, nights and weekends (because I have a day job) - not every night or every weekend day but that's the rough time span for me: 1) slab roll and/or form clay, 2) 12 hour bisque fire followed by about 6 hour cooling, 3) paint on glaze 4) load onto racks in kiln (my least favorite part), 5) 4- 5 hour final glaze fire followed by around 6 - 8 hours to cool, 6) unload and sort (fun part!!!!), then 7) photograph and list. I still have to do this last step with this load - I never get everything photographed, so I always have a backlog. Stuff that has never been photographed or listed which will probably go with me to shows.

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  9. You beautiful pieces have me drooling...slip..there I go again.Just lovely!!Warmest Regards,Cat

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