Yunomi from the fall firing

Here are some yumomi from the fall firing. They all have the same carbon trap glaze on them. The glaze really likes the flame and records it well. The pots tell nice tales of the fire and ash.
Make good pots,
~Craig

Little bowl fresh from firing

Here is a little bowl from the back of the kiln. The kiln is still about 300F, but I was able to reach in stoke hole 5 and pull it out.  It's been cooling for three days and we might be able to unload tomorrow.

Here is the mandatory flaming chimney picture.  They are always fun.
Cheers,
Make good pots,
Craig

handbuilt Teapot

Here was a nice surprise, this little handbuilt teapot was sitting in the second tier of pots. It's a shino with heavy fly ash. Can't wait to try it out. Then of course it becomes a used pot. ` Make good pots.

Shino yunomi

Here are a few yunomi that came out of the last firing, it's the typical wood ash on shino, a nice reliable combination. These and small bowls and cups are the real backbone of the firing. They pay for wood and clay etc. There is a storm headed this way today... so better get to it. Maybe 1-2 feet of snow and 20-60 MPH, we shall see if they are right about this. Make good pots!

Favorites from the fall firing

Here are a couple more favorites out of the fall firing. These are the pots that there never seem to be enough of and keep you coming back to wood firing.

Randy Johnston Plate

I was going through a pile of plates and came across this one by Randy Johnston. It's from the mid 70's. Will Ruggles and Douglas Rankin were working with him then. Randy was experimenting with enamels. This is really a wild one for him. It's a shino glaze with kaki trailed, then red and green enamels fired on in a second firing.
This is one of those pots that have been around for so long that are there but you only see them out of the corner of your eye.
Well, I haven't had my morning coffee yet, so first things first and then off to throw some coffee mugs.

Some square plates and bottles

Here are some squared plates and bottles ready to go into the kiln. The bottles are put on top of the plates with shells in between. The plates have a shino glaze on them that works well with the shells. I'm trying a saturated iron glaze that has worked well in woodfiring. Well it's time to go back into the kiln.

A vase with a carbon trap glaze. The white on top is flyash.

Squared plates

These plates have a shino glaze that has finger swipes as a decoration. The shino got completely covered with flyash, acept where I had a bowl resting on shells stacked on top of it.

This is slab built pitcher with a shino glaze with finger swipes. It got a bit wet with flyash.