Medusa.....................

..........Crow-Kin.  Sculpted as a request.

Raku........Ra-COO-CROW-KIN.........

..........latest adventure in the baptism of fire, flame and smoke.

Holiday Crow-Kin...................

.........at the Gallery at Ten Oaks in McMinnville Oregon.

"Planetoid 1"..............

.........observed recently.  Roughly 4-inch diameter hollow clay sphere with a cone 6 silicon carbide glaze and various oxide under/over coats.

More Marilee's Lava Exploration........

Black mason stain undercoat and a red iron oxide overcoat.   My standard glossy white liner glaze around the top 1/4 of the piece.

"Earth Bowl #8".  Red iron oxide undercoat, black mason stain topcoat.

Fired to cone 6 in oxidation.  

Cratered glaze.........

....on tea-bowl form.  It's actually Marileee's Lava from John Britt's book, "Guide to Mid-Range Glazes".  You can bet I'm going to make some spheres and adjust the coloring for planetoids.  Stay tuned for blast-off.

The Week in Review........

a couple of bowls in ancient copper and emerald ash glaze

Several bowls in sapphire ash glaze with cobalt exterior

Crow-Kin from the planet Xenon

Pothead Crow-Kin

Sunset at Bandon Oregon

Crow-Kin @ the Beach................

Crow-Kin showing off his mussel...

Crow-Kin VERSUS Cthulhu!

More Tumbling...............

.....results from the reduction kiln (cone 10) at the Willamette Art Center.  I progress. 

Tumbling tumblers.........

...........some of the first off the wheel.  Playing with glazes.   All about 8-ounces.

"Artifact Bowl #1"......................

...........handbuilt bowl, roughly 10-inches in diameter, 5-inches high.  Raku fired. 

Earth Bowl #7.................

..............crater glaze with Copper Sand raku glaze atop.  Fired to 1850-deg F, pulled and reduced.

Earth Bowl Series......

"Earth Bowl #5"

"Earth Bowl #3"

"Earth Bowl #6"

Handbuilt bowls with cone 04 crater glaze variations and multiple oxide/glaze treatments between layers.  Approximately 8-inch diameter, 3-5-inches high.

Round & Round......................

.........and round some more.  Picked up a used pottery wheel about a month ago.  Signed up for a throwing class at the local art center.    FINALLY yesterday things sort of came together and I managed a few bits and pieces.   This is just something I had to try.

Crow-Kins Continue to Congregate............

......collectively.  Ceramic, cold finished.  8-inches high approximately.

Avalanche vase..............

.......raku with fatty white crackle glaze  Approximately 12-inches tall.  Ceramic.

Isotope Icon #1:.....................

........."Radioactive Child of the Half-Life Madonna".   5-inches x 7-inches x 2.5-inches.  Raku ceramic elements mounted on a wooden panel.

Cthulhu Crow-Kin.....................

..........finished. Cold finish (acrylic/wax).

Alternative kiln construction........

The kiln under full fire (around 1700F).

approaching the magic point of 1850-degrees F

.........finished.  31-gallon trash can with 1-inch 8# ceramic fiber.  Double-thickness on the floor and lid of the kiln.  The heat source is a Harbor Freight weed burner hooked up to a 20# tank at the moment.

The initial raku fire went well - about 45 minutes to reach 1850F (taking it slowly).  Nothing melted nor caught on fire.  Now the fun begins.

Raku sculpture...................

....and bowl.  Trying for a geological look.....an origin of material.  Copper sand raku glaze with heavy reduction.  Fired to 1850F. 

The bowl exterior also had a first layer of red iron/frit wash.

Cthulhu Rises!..........................

......in several guises......the top - the Crow-Kin Cthulhu, the bottom, your basic primitive Cthulhu idol......constructed of earthenware clay.  Both are in the first stages of sculpting.  Roughly 6-7 inches high.

Newest Garden Totem........

......the last of summer I suspect.  Found a lovely cobalt blue glaze.  3-feet high.  Available @ the Gallery at Ten Oaks.

Raku bowl.............

.....Piepenburg patina.   About 6-inches in diameter.

Raku Rocking and Rolling....................

......mask in Georgies' Apple Crackle glaze.  5 minutes in reduction, opened, fueled and flamed, then reduced for 15 more minutes. 

Life-sized, ceramic.

Taft Beach.............

......Lincoln City Oregon.

Raku...............

...........Crow-Kin. 

RAKU..............rock & roll.............

@ Cross Creek Pottery (Kelly & Pam Donaldson).  The first raku crow-kin.

Beating the Heat......

....at the beach.  40-degree difference between here and the valley.