Cone 10

So, I've been so busy I haven't made any mention yet that I applied (and was subsequently accepted) to the St. George Arts Festival that is happening this Friday and Saturday. I figured I'd planned everything and started work back in January just in case I got in and would have plenty of time to get it all done. I'm planning on heading out the door tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. and I'm not ready yet. I don't suppose there is ever enough time when getting ready for an event like this as I've heard many stories about kilns being unloaded into boxes and heading out hot. There have been a slew of hangups on this attempt also. My camera gave up the ghost as I was trying to get the last picture together to submit for my application. My final picture of my booth had to be shot with my cell phone, but evidently it wasn't too bad. Although, without a camera I don't have any pictures of the new work. None of the firings went off as expected, but as I'm finding out, with crystals that is to be expected.

In any case I have a lot of new work, some of it very different from what I've been producing and I'm excited and very nervous about my first Art Festival. My booth is B-17, if you are in the St. George area this weekend come and check it out.

I'll be participating in the CAU holiday sale this year again. Come by and take a look, there's always a lot of great work there.
 

13" black vase fired for 5 hours in the upper range of the crystal growth temperatures. This glaze is so shiny it's a real headache to try to shoot in any condition without a lot of reflections. It's almost enough to make me go back to raku.

12" turquoise vase fired for 5 hours in the upper range of the crystal growth temperatures.

12" vase fired with a copper glaze and then post-fire reduced to 1400 degrees for 10 minutes. This was one of the few from the first test reduction done last year that worked out ok, but sat in a corner forgotten until now.

Small (6") bottle with gold crystals on a pink background fired for 5 hours in the upper range of the crystal growth temperatures.

7" bottle painted with an encapsulated red mason stain slip while green, then glazed with our base crystal glaze with no colorants fired for 5 hours in the upper range of the crystal growth temperatures..

8" Cobalt blue vase with a new adjustment to the base glaze fired for 5 hours in the upper range of the crystal growth temperatures.