The soda kiln has been unloaded and it was another beautiful firing with lots of great pots. It seemed like everyone was pleased with the results. Every glaze firing does have a potential for bad pots. I’ve seen pots come out of an electric kiln with some glaze problems for various reasons. Most of those same problems can happen in atmospheric firings like gas reduction, salt, soda, or wood. The possibilities for problems are at the maximum with wood firing but all kinds of things are happening in the soda kiln also, and this can create beautiful pots or pots that meed repair like the one I have to fix from the first firing. You might even remember me
writing about them in June. No, I still haven’t fixed and re-fired that casserole. It’s an easy thing to do, I just find it difficult to bring myself to doing it.
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| Soda Fired Vase |
The good news is that I don’t have to repair any pots from this firing, I think they all came out great. I was fortunate enough to get some wonderful flashing on most of them.
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| Three Handled Pot |
These pots and more will be at the
Piedmont Park Arts Festival this weekend (Aug 15 - 16) in Atlanta. I’ll be in the booth with
Kaboodle Home in a lovely spot near the lake. If you’re in the area come out to the park for some great art and say “hi.”
Check out the gallery page -
Future Relics Gallery
by Lori Buff
Love those juicy pots! I would love the opportunity to explore soda firing. I hope you have a great sale this weekend.
ReplyDeleteThanks Michèle
DeleteWhow...great pots. So glad for you. Happy sales!
ReplyDeletebeautiful pots, have a good sale, I still have my cat, rooster and dog canisters I haven't remade the bottom's (that cracked) over again, I have hard time motivating myself to remake things, I know they'd sell right away if I finished them, but almost out of clay, maybe I should do one at a time and then it won't be so bad.
ReplyDeleteThanks Linda, remaking something usually isn't a big problem for me, it's fixing glaze drips and stuff like that I'm less motivated to do.
DeleteI'd say there is some great flashing indeed!
ReplyDeleteVery nice!
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