Well, after a day and half of moving tables, moving pots, counting inventory and finessing displays... the Kingston Potters' Guild Spring Sale is underway! A big thanks goes out to Mike and Ikuko who are convening this time around.

Potters put the finishing touches on their displays.

My pots, set off by the KPG wall plaque.

 

Rosie's Red can actually turn out red!

Latest firing resulted in some interesting glaze results.  I used a glaze called Rosie's Red on a few pieces.  This glaze is one of the standard Kingston Potters' Guild class glazes.  In the past when I've used this glaze I would get a heterogeneous shiny brown glaze, OK, but nothing spectacular and I always wondered why it was called Rosie's Red (looked consistently brown to me).  I decided to try some Rosie's on a few of my pieces in the last firing (basically I was tired of spraying and quickly dipping the remaining pieces in glaze was a way to get out of the studio sooner - it was a beautiful spring day).  Perhaps the relatively quick dip, along with a soak and slow cool during the firing did the trick - Rosie's was actually red!  or at least reddish and also satiny instead of shiny.  I found a Clayart thread that states that slow cooling is the ticket for red/orange tones with this glaze.

A little blue teapot.

I finally made a little teapot.  Of course it drips, and it only holds 1 1/2 cups of water, but I think its cute.

Spraying, spraying, spraying

Spent the ENTIRE day at the Kingston Potters' Guild studio today trying to finish glazing pots so I can load the kiln tomorrow. Its great using the spray booth at the studio but my hand feels like its about to fall off from holding the spray gun all day!