I am trying to get everything prepared for the upcoming workshop!I had a very unfortunate first bisq firing...in that all of my homemade clay bodies completely melted!!! I even thought that I had ruined my electric kiln, but upon further inspection I was able to fix it. (The bottom picture is of my melted work as it came out of the kiln!)
SO, back to the drawing board and I made a small round of work (Bmix cone 10) and incorporated some local slip and the inclusion of a small percentage of local yellow clay for character. They came out of the bisq just find and are ready to be glazed and shipped!
The beaver tails are important to me with this firing as the change that they represent...I am soaking them in the acid mine waste creek so they can soak up some of the orange waste and be changed into something beautiful...
We collected some beaver wood for the firing and along the way we came to a place where there were beaver tail prints in the mud.... Makes me feel that I am on the right path...
