Like Molasses on a Winter Day

That's about how fast I glaze my work, for one reason: I hate glazing! Coloring between the lines to get nice crisp color definition is as tedious as it is important for my work. I have a friend who works with cone 6 red stoneware, and she simply gives her work a red iron oxide stain to make them come out beautiful. Alas, I am partial to whites with hints of bright colors.

Yesterday my to-do list was a mile long, and as it turned out, overly ambitious. What I actually got done was: organize my glazes (I got a new Ikea shelving unit that I love, because my cheap bookcase was bowing under the weight of the glazes); make some tests of new low-fire Spectrum glazes I bought, with white underneath and overtop; glaze a dragon (this took 60% of the day); load the kiln; and finish up some small slab wall sculptures.