Mentor Meeting 4/11

Today was what I like to call a Wildly Productive Monday. I made seven pieces:

 

and had four more come out of the bisque kiln:

 You may notice that some of the new pieces are ridiculously tiny, like less than 2" in height. This is because I have decided to scratch the two other series and stick to "Hatching Hope." More is just overkill. I still have those flowerpots but I am going to keep them myself, and plant flowers in them, dammit. But now that I'm just doing the one series I have a responsibility to it to make it really diverse, and of excellent quality, so I'm making some tiny eggs. Kind of like bird eggs as opposed to dragon eggs. Non-mythical birds, I mean. Not that there weren't mythical birds who laid tiny eggs. But I digress.

I met with Jocelyn, in a way; nothing much was accomplished but she did hunt this up for me:

It is a respirator, and I am going to use it so as not to poison myself when I mix up some iron oxide wash to spray in interesting blotches on the pots to add some more color, because I'm worried about not having enough. The recipe is approximately 1 tsp powdered FeO to 8 fl. oz. H20. That's from the wonderful Bible of a book Alternative Kilns and Firing Techniques, by Watkins & Wandless, which I shall cite elsewhere. I should be making the solution tomorrow or Wednesday.