Because some pottery friends were doing a raku firing,
I decided to try the horses in a raku. The glaze was not one I was familiar with-- they were supposed to come out white crackled with black. The joys and frustration and unpredictability of raku.
So, I did not like them all smokey black, so I am re-firing them in the electric kiln with a white glaze on (second picture is of the raku'ed pieces with white glaze on, before glaze-firing in electric kiln). They may not make it-- they could explode as raku is very hard on clay and I was already seeing cracks. But… you gotta do what you gotta do!
I'll add the "finished" (broken or not?? **suspense**) picture later this week.
So when Karen said that she loved the picture of the painting of the oystercatchers that I photographed at the Blue Horse Gallery on SSI, I thought, hey, it's her bday, why don't I just copy it. So I did. She was THRILLED. Unbeknownst to me she had actually been in touch with the gallery asking the price of the piece ($650 plus tax!!!!). So she really did like it-- enought to consider buying it. They are quite cute. The funny thing is that all these colours our our house paint colours. So of course they match all of Karen's palate as well as we have similar interior decor tastes.
