Biddeford Art Walk

Was a fun success.  Thanks to Tammy Ackerman, Biddeford Art Walk and Engine for organizing and a nice exhibition space on Main Street Biddeford.

This morning...

Raku too..

Hitting the bottle again...

... propane bottle that is.

Some more attempts at Raku today.

Yesterday I mixed some color into my base White Crackle glaze, cobalt carbonate for blue and copper carbonate for copper luster. The pink glaze is the cobalt carbonate. 

It was a nice day for November..

These little cups went first...a couple of them blew up..but I didn't perceive a problem so I continued with more..

 ..with any luck the videos will get better..

I have learned some lessons today and lost some work but I'm excited by the effects that I am starting to get. The tall vessels are all broken..i reconstructed them for the picture. The came apart as I pulled them from the kiln. 

The last four pieces came out better with a much slower ramp to temperature.

The knob on the left blew off in the kiln. That's probably due to the differential expansion where there is a change in thickness of clay (coupled with the fast heating).

I'm going public...ha ha!

I will be putting some of my pots on the block in Biddeford December 2nd. Come on down and be entertained.
http://biddefordartwalk.com/special-events/

My submissions to an Alumni Art Show...

Representing work from all three wood-fires I participated in this year.

https://www.waynflete.org/ftpimages/64/misc/misc_104158.pdf

Watershed Woodfire Workshop with Tara Wilson. Fall 2011

 These first two images are from my back yard raku experiments this summer.

 Last Friday Sept 30 was loading day at Watershed. The workshop was led by Tara Wilson a visiting studio potter who lives in Montana. Check out her work here...tarawilsonpottery.com.

The sun held out making for a nice relaxed day. 

John Read's Ictheous creations...

Some of Tara's pieces ready to load.

Some of my little cups with a couple of Kris Jorgensen's pieces.

Johns fish wadded to Margaret's bottles.

Tara loaded the kiln very thoughtfully and made a tall first shelf stack to encourage the flame to run equally top and bottom of the kiln where otherwise it would tend more to follow the ceiling of the kiln.

So we lit the thing up and fired it for about 45 hours before clamping it up and leaving it to cool Sunday afternoon. I will try to get some more photos of the participants soon.

John's primordial fish as if born out of the ashes.

One of Tara's Pieces. Just amazing!

One of my cups stuck to one of Kris's.

 Gorgeous bottle...Angela Rose.

Little cups, short tumblers and pitchers and the lidded jars are my work. more on that later.

Summed up to a pretty successful woodfire. Back to work!