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/