Bisque Success!

Thankfully, all 4 figures were successfully fired to 1150C this week.  Below are the underglazed figures, having been taken inside overnight.  Firstly to dry and secondly, to make sure they dont freeze out in the garage, its well minus double digits here in the North East...

The translucency and colour of glaze on top of the underglaze determines how the finished figure will look, it also emphasises the words and tears on the clay, as well as giving a depth to the surface which cannot be achieved by 'painting by numbers' with glaze. 

A selection of hands and tools

This pair will be in red tartan eventually

TSC...Sssssssh!

Pinkie Nurse

Wednesday

As promised, here are the rest of the photos of the new figures:

All safely tucked up in the kiln

I woke up this morning to find the kiln at 80C and very nicely dried figures, popped the power up and went off to Grays to collect some more Doric Delft, 2 figures which were in Ullapool, magically appeared at Grays so i now have even more to show! (Thanks Gav and Jim)

boxes.....

more boxes....

pink and purple bags....

boxes full of work....

badges in boxes!

Finally, as every ceramicist knows.  An offering must be made to the mighty god Araldyite before every show.  We all saw what happened at the beginning of Clash of the Titans...