Glazing has begun

Last Monday I carefully packed all my goodies up in plastic and got them in to my classroom, which I was not so happy to see in a state of total disaster. A few things got chipped up in transport as you have only to sneeze at them, really, to cause something to chip or crack. But I fixed what I could and loaded everything up to bisque. Thursday I unloaded and started the long and laborious process of glazing. Because I do the detailed carving my glaze process is really labor intensive. Everything had to first be stained, then I wax off all the carvings to preserve the clay body underneath from receiving any glaze. I spent 6 hours and got everything stained and a good chunk of the waxing done. I'll have a couple more hours of waxing tomorrow then I'll begin glazing. My glaze palette will be limited to just a few solid combos that I know pretty well and have more faith in them to turn out. I need absolutely everything to turn out as you can see I don't have much. It seems like I should have so much more for spending a month and a half of summer on the wheel. But I'm more of the slow and steady type so I guess this was the best I could do. I'll post the afters once I unload the glaze mid-next week. Keep the positive thoughts!


Here is my army of minis. You can see my six neti pots in the back ground.

A few wheat pots, three of which have a new spin on the wheat theme with just the band of the wheat design. I think I like them! I especially liked that they didn't take as much time to carve. Always a bonus.

And the most time consuming of all my pots. The tree idea is something I came up with years ago and have duplicated a hundred times, though no two pots are ever exactly the same.

And my latest order for a dog urn. This is for Sebastian.