dsglass' photos
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Fired this one on its side, perched on balls of "wadding" with seashells on top. This one's still stuck on, it'll take a bit of effort (and maybe power tools ;) ) but I think I can get it off without destroying anything... Even with the blob stuck to the side, though, it's definitely one of my favorites. :)
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This one is seriously crusty - I think it spent much of its time in the wood kiln pretty much buried in ash.... :)
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My turn sitting inside carefully arranging things on shelves - I was working on the still-low stack at the bottom of the image, I'd filled the first two layers and was waiting for another shelf (which I carefully balanced on those three posts, trying to align and level it without hitting anything or knocking anything over) to start the next.
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Playing with combining clay and glass. The copper in those aventurine ribbons pretty much disappeared - or maybe that's what turned what I was expecting to be a dark green glaze on the body apple red? :)
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More silly glass experiments! :)
I made a bunch of little pendants, and basically made those little platters at the last minute to have a "safe" flat surface to fire them on... ;)
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Silly Glass Experiments!
A jar lid was probably not the best test subject - lids are fussy, and it really sucks when they end up stuck on - but it was a nice flat surface (which hopefully prevented the glass from running down the sides and sticking (once everything cooled) to the wrong things) so I went for it. :) I stuck the whole thing in a just-big-enough-to-catch-any-drippings bowl on some seashells; tomorrow I'll find out if I have a functional jar and a bowl with an interesting flame-painted design or just a giant paperweight... ;)
[ETA: paperweight it is! but a really lovely paperweight... :) ]
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Arrowmont Craft School is located in Gatlinburg, TN, which is kind of a touristy theme-park of a town; there's a chair-lift up to a mountain-top amusement park that flies right over the kilns...