#bisque fire

[claypigeonpottery]

loaded the kiln for a bisque fire! should be ready to unload in a few days. fingers crossed there are no explosions

[koifishinmybathtub]

In the works

[notjaycakes]

Some more WIP. Some are bisque fired and some are still greenware waiting to be bisqued! 😌 sadly some were already bone dry that I ended up reclaiming + I didn’t get to put some handles on some my pieces but that’s okay. Next time. I’m just super excited for handbuilding in January. 💕

[roxanedrawing]

loading the wee kiln with flowers i made for a client... they're firing rn and fingers crossed, i'm nervous about the wall thicknesses. and if they stand this i want to fire them stoneware......... so nervous..............

also my beloved said that one flower looked In Fact like a Cabbage so i googled flowrs that resemble cabbages and was not disappointed, green to purple colour scheme

[jbbartram-illu]

Went to pick up the kids from the kiln yesterday and everyone seems to have had a lovely time!! I'm so fascinated by the bisqued colour of the black clay - I know it'll get a bit darker in the glaze firing, but also this warm brown is very pretty??

I'm also THRILLED that none of my bowls developed cracks during the drying/bisque fire! My new bowl-making tool really helped me compress those bottoms!

[claypigeonpottery]

Can you explain what temperature each cone is to me?

My underglaze calls for cone 4 or 3 and I tried looking it up, but DuckDuckGo is absolutely useless for this kind of thing. :(

tbh, I don’t think I know enough about it to really explain it, I’m not super knowledgeable about that side of things. but I do have a handy little chart that should help

and Cone 4 is 4, not 04. 04 would be your first firing, the bisque fire, 4 would be your glaze fire. I know that’s tripped me up before

[claypigeonpottery]

I hate loading bisque kilnsssss. I’m still uncomfortable putting plates on their sides on the kiln shelf, but several people have said they warp less if stacked that way so… 🤞🏼

(there’s a ton of stuff in there that isn’t mine, I loaded a bunch of student pottery to help fill the kiln)

[claypigeonpottery]

bisque fire: complete ✅

my glaze fire date is April 14th, so I’ll be getting finished work back around the 17th. a few pieces I had hoped to be ready for April didn’t make it into the kiln, I’ll update those people in the next couple days (between frantically painting and glazing lol)

the bisque kiln only had one casualty

poor little jackalope 😔 I’m gonna kintsugi him and keep him as bisqueware, he’s already partially glued. since he doesn’t need to be foodsafe, I’m not using my actual kintsugi supplies. I’ll just paint the glue line gold