This is a plate after bisque firing, the first of two firings, the first at a lower temperature than the final, glaze firing that happens after the plate is decorated. This is a simple design for me, a traditional image of a flaming heart, and one of several plates that is part of a set I'm making with the same design.
This is, by the way, a failure of a thing because of this:
A goddamned rookie mistake I made when loading the kiln led to this--and three other pieces--cracking during the firing.
That was yesterday's rookie mistake.
Today was a hard day, not because of pottery, but because of another matter altogether. Nothing I can talk about yet, but it made my heart hurt. It still hurts.
2 comments:
Man.. it cracked?? anyway to fix it?
Alas, no, I smashed it up already. You got to know when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em with pottery, too!
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