If you've worked in print graphics, you're familiar with Pantone. The Pantone color system solved the problem of chatting with clients, across distances, about colors. Color reference cards in hand on both ends, you could finally be sure you were both on the same page...literally. In addition, Pantone provides software used to calibrate graphics programs and monitors, so that everyone involved in a project is seeing the same colors projected on their screen. Most of us, with various monitors…

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So after doing some tests, here are the 1st couple real pots.  This is how they came out of their first glaze firing.  Next they will be re-fired in a bisque & then they will be sprayed with the wash & re-fired in another glaze firing.  I will post pics after each firing to document the process.…

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Does anybody know what the story is with Eric?  He has not posted on his blog for over a year now & I thought he was a member of this group as well, but can't find him in the member list.  I have been using some of his wash recipes with great success & was wanting to ask him what other directions he had gone with them before I start experimenting more with them.  Any info would be helpful.  Jeff

We have finalized our distributorship with the major ceramics supplier in our state, Georgie's Ceramics. It's taken nearly a year but they have been great to work with. What it means to us is enough of a discount to re-sale in the three county area. 

Our nearest distributor of glaze supplies is almost a four hour round trip over the coastal range and south to the 'big city'. You can understand my dismay when I realized I had forgotten my shopping list just as I stepped into the store. I was on a mission to fill out our ingredient base so we could make many of the glazes we have read about. The shopping list was developed by studying the glaze data base for this group on Insight-live. Luckily I had my ipad with me and was able to log in…

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I am home with a touch of the flu. I decided to re-fire a couple of iron reds and change the hold to 950c. I just went out to check the progress and saw that it was below 950c and hadn't done the hold. Upon reviewing(again), I saw that I had programmed 95c instead of 950c. Thanks heavens I always monitor! I hit stop and re-programmed a ramp to 950c with a 60 min hold. 9 hours of wasted element wear avoided! Jeff

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