Pics of the annual thanksgiving Raku fest at my studio

What a great day, starts out at 5:30 am lighting the barrel, then later in the morning a friend stopped by and we did a few pieces in a horsehair ,ferric chloride finish then threw them into reduction , later lit another kiln and did some pieces to be fumed,  then did a my firt alcohol reduction firing with just one piece ,then did a regular Raku firing , and after dinner unloaded the barrel fire kiln I. What could be better , good friends, firing multiple kilns . Fun with flames and chemicals, unfortunately the first try at alcohol reduction didn't really work put as planned , and  the fumed pieces got away before I got pics of them , but this is the rest of it all

The 5:30 start to the annual thanksgiving barrel fire and Raku

I love opening the kiln

It is like being a kid on Christmas morning , and these results rocked my day 

A lot going on

In the upcoming weeks , it will be very busy. This starts with the opening of the show , Gather Round , at Sedona Arts Center, followed by 2 consecutive Sunday open studio and sales with loving bowls mixed in the middle . If you are in the northern Arizona area stop by and say hello 

Some new items fresh from the kiln

Another bowl of blues

A new process

I tried a new to me process this past weekend , fuming , where you open the kiln at about 900 degrees f and add some stannus chloride and that creates the fumes , then wait till its cooled . What you see here is the result of my first try