I guess things change when you get older. I am depressed by my pottery. Something happened to my PVC glaze. It doesn't work. This is the glaze that I hav...

Yesterday we helped our son and daughter in law move her sister down from Spokane to Richland. Lots of work. Today I did another 6"x6" painting for ArtWall...

Fired some cone 8 test chips and tomorrow I will test some glazes. I will need to make some more dirt glaze for the matching soup bowls. I just got the ide...

Got some marvelous glazes. One is a white woodash and the regular dirt glaze is working well. The kids came over today and glazed their pots and Jackson c...

I finally gave up and mixed some PVC glaze today. The tests were OK but not the best. I also adjusted the white? glaze in the big bucket and added Si to th...

What a hoot. I am removing sod from around out new storage shed and now I have a new source of earth material for glazes. It is really fine and I have mixe...

Finished 2 paintings from our trip to Louisiana over the winter. I have hit a wall in glazes. I think I should make some regular PVC for cone 5 and buy so...

Hello. Glazed a bunch of cone 5 pots today and have the kiln partially loaded with cone 1 re-fire. The new storage shed will give me room so i can mix cone...

I have been busy for a while. The carona virus has us staying home with me going to the store alone. We got a 10 ft X 16 ft storage shed and I have been mo...

Today went good except I put the wrong cone in the bisque kiln. They went to cone 5 instead of 05-bummer. The clay looks good I will try to glaze them afte...

It's been a while. Some strange and disturbing things have happened. I will try not to speak up even if I think it is to the benefit of some people so much...

Boy what a Time. Thursday I drove 80 miles one way to retrieve my musician paintings from and ending feature show. Friday I took those paintings to Walter C...

Well, I am waiting to receive some cone 1 from Seattle Pottery Supply. I need to take pots to Moses Lake on Thursday and am in need of cones to re-fire the ...

Interesting times are here. I had a first ever experience. I am thinking that my latest painting of Louis Armstrong might be done and will decide tomorrow....

Just got back form New Orleans. Saw some really good art but missed Degas' house. Am firing to cone 8 and mixed a bunch of cone 5 clay today. Also finishe...

Tested so glazes today. Adding more iron to the dirt glaze didn't do much. I still don't have a white cone 8 glaze except white wood ash that is not reliab...

Unloaded the kiln today. Results OK. Will re-fire 2 of them but that is OK. I need to test 75% dirt, 25% borate. I am short of 20/80 and want to know wha...

Not much happened today. I threw some pots while the kiln was firing. I will open the kiln tomorrow. Did do a nasty painting that will be covered up soon....

Loaded the cone 1 kiln today. Dropped one mug while cleaning it but there is a plethora of others on the shelf so there is that. Will fire the load tomorrow...

Fired cone 8 today. Will fire to cone 1 tomorrow. Made some bowls today and picked up 6- 6X6 panels for Spectra Gallery for a fund raiser. The paintings a...