Wood Firing

This is a wood kiiln. The right side is for straight wood...here's hoping there was plenty of ash. The left side was designated for salt. I'm very new at this and have yet to understand basic details, never mind the nuances. We started firng Thursday night and finished up late Saturday eve. The kiln will cool all week and on Saturday we plan to open and view the magic...or carnage as the case may be.

Ain't she a beauty?

This month my uncle delivered my beloved Lockerbie kickwheel. Currently production of these little lovelies has stopped and I was fortunate to find this one on Ebay, gently used, for half the original cost.

I was even more fortunate to have an uncle, not only willing to pick up said wondrous equipment, but also wanting to buy it for me as a birthday gift. Well ain't that a kicker?!

Sure is. hee hee.

I can't wait to get on it and throw some clay around. Deal is my uncle gets the first piece off the wheel. Completely fair request.

My Studio, a.k.a. the place I pile all my crap

It's absolutely wonderful that I have this great space to work in. Finding the time to make it a space I can work in is proving quite daunting. With the little one now walking I tend to stay in safer zones of the house or outside in the garden. This is my latest excuse for not getting my dream studio up and running.

Under all the chaos there will be space for individual and small group (very small) art lessons as well as my own working area for various media. My number one artistic passion is CLAY. I have a kickwheel waiting to be delivered as soon as I clear a space. My kiln is at the end of the shop. There's a large worktable I just retopped with masonite and two other existing workstations for "cleaner" arts like papermaking and block printing.

This shop will be seasonal as there is no heat and we live in zone 4. It gets a bit chilly round these parts and I plan to eventually inhabit a small heated sewing room (It doesn't actually exist yet. One thing at a time) in our attic during the coldest months.

That's the plan. Now to act.