Hello everyone. It is so nice to finish all my work before dark on a Friday! I have glazed and loaded the kiln full, and even had a tidy up of my studio space! Ah, lovely!
The last three days, I have concentrated on glazing and painting bisque-fired figures. This has somehow made me hungry for high calorie food. I am a bit concerned if I am going to be a piglet at this rate!
I have three tables for my ceramics. One is for making, another is for painting bisques; they are in my studio. The third one is for packing in my office.
My painting table has had these ones. A view of my painting table - yesterday.
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| Rolling heads! |
The hair of this boy might become blotchy because I didn't mix enough colour at one go. I was making the colour under artificial light at night, so I couldn't tell the nuance of the shades. I guess he would need at least a second firing.
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| They will be in my Etsy shop, if they come out fine. |
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| This is how the heads were held. |
This afternoon, I started loading the kiln.
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| The lower shelf |
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| The top shelf |
I hope they will come out fine. The kiln will be opened on Sunday morning.
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In our garden, there are so many flowers at this moment. I can finally enjoy them this weekend. We will put the garden furniture out.
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| Oriental poppies -very early! |
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| Lily-flowered tulips. |
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| Our eating cherry have lots of flowers! But birds will have most fruits! :D |
This afternoon, I took Pearl the whippet for an ordinary walk around four blocks. At the farthest end, we were chased by a tom cat! Pearl became bonkers, and started barking at him. The cat made himself large by arching and putting all fur spread, and chased us! I ran away as I dragged Pearl who was ready to fight. Then when I looked back, the cat was behind us, still chasing us! And when I hurriedly crossed the road, he came to the closest corner of the other side, and did a wee! I picked up Pearl and held her as if she were a child (heavy and cumbersome with those long legs) and whispered her 'Don't make a mistake. That's not a cat, it is a tiger!'
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| Bluebells near us |
Have a great weekend!
What an adventure with the tomcat ~ oh my .
ReplyDeleteSounded frightening.
That kitty has the soul of a Tiger for certain !
The cat was something! :D Yes! It has never occurred to the cat that it is actually a relatively small animal, I think! :D
DeletePearl is not very brave ! Poor girl, the nasty cat scared her :)
ReplyDeleteLove the face of boy, love his hair too. I like to see how others work. Good luck for firing :)
Pearl wanted to fight! But I was scared! Imagine what could happen!
DeleteThank you, Ilona. I hope his hair is ok, not too patchy! : )
Love the poppy and the bluebells, amazing how you put your sculptures together after firing, would love to see a demo of that.
ReplyDeleteDemo? :D Nothing to it, Linda! If you make them fit before firing, they will fit like gloves after firing, too! : )
ReplyDeleteNIce work! Love the heads..... and yes, the spring is beautiful also here, in Artichokistan :)
ReplyDeleteThank you. The best time for North western Europe! : )
DeleteI love seeing into your kiln, Midori. All those faces looking up makes me smile with delight.
ReplyDeleteHahaha! Sometimes they spook me when I open the kiln : )
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