PNW Independent Study Class 2006

A couple of months ago, while having breakfast at the Essential Bakery in Wallingford, we hatched this idea of doing a Pottery Northwest Independent Study class, where we will engage in the complete pottery creation process. We will run the bisque kilns and fire the Soda kiln, mix slips, etc. Given all of our collective knowledge of the pottery process, we felt we were ready to go to the next level. This is how the Independent Study class began....

Wednesday, July 26, 2006

First Kiln Firing

The first kiln firing went smoothly and without any troubles. I will post our kiln firing instructions in the next posting. We agreed to meet at the studio at 7AM since we were anticipating a 12-15 hour firing. We lit the kiln at 7:40am and proceeded to fire until 7:55pm. We did a body reduction for about 1/2 hour and spray a soda ash mix for about 1 hr 20 mins. I'll be posting our soda mix recipe tomorrow. Take a look at our soda spraying video, thanks to Hilary Chan for taking this video.