With a little help
Jan. 23rd, 2020 09:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
offcntrToday's studio plan: glaze seventeen animal banks, eight incense dragons, and one hundred St. Vincent de Paul bowls.
Thank goodness I had help.
This is my wife, Denise. She's a microbiologist by training, a papermaker and bookbinder by choice. Which means that, while she can't glaze and decorate my painted production pots, she's really good at jobs requiring care and precision. So she can glaze and wax eyes on dinosaur banks. Wax the cut edges and eyes of incense dragons. Clean up the glaze drips as I dip and drain the banks.
As for the bowls, we set up a production line. I waxed feet, poured the insides and dipped rims in my white glaze. As soon as they were dry enough to handle, she carefully dipped the outside in one of six different colored glazes, wiped the bottom across a sponge, and moved them to a stack of ware boards. Periodically, I'd bring out more bowls to glaze, change out the colored glaze tub, and set up another board on the stack.
It took us two hours to glaze the banks and dragons. Barely two more to glaze all the SVdP bowls.
Thank goodness I had help.
This is my wife, Denise. She's a microbiologist by training, a papermaker and bookbinder by choice. Which means that, while she can't glaze and decorate my painted production pots, she's really good at jobs requiring care and precision. So she can glaze and wax eyes on dinosaur banks. Wax the cut edges and eyes of incense dragons. Clean up the glaze drips as I dip and drain the banks.
As for the bowls, we set up a production line. I waxed feet, poured the insides and dipped rims in my white glaze. As soon as they were dry enough to handle, she carefully dipped the outside in one of six different colored glazes, wiped the bottom across a sponge, and moved them to a stack of ware boards. Periodically, I'd bring out more bowls to glaze, change out the colored glaze tub, and set up another board on the stack.
It took us two hours to glaze the banks and dragons. Barely two more to glaze all the SVdP bowls.