tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20865128432520039302024-03-13T12:13:37.388-04:00SPLITFIREPOTTERYWood-fired pottery from my country home in Central New York.Bill Perrinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16676717176479747765noreply@blogger.comBlogger54125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086512843252003930.post-38571064859948660592012-08-31T22:19:00.000-04:002012-09-01T20:58:29.742-04:00KILN REBUILD<div style="text-align: center;">
I've been plugging away at the kiln site. I have had to stop to get more bricks, silica sand and Hawthorn 40 fire clay for the mortar, etc. I do have some pictures of the latest progress I've made. </div>
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from above. There will be removable grate bars for the whole door width
front to back, I have the just the front half removed here. I will be
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First support...</div>
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Lath on and wall started.</div>
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arch and chamber arch in place. I'll cut and fill the gaps on each
side, after. Super duty's on the inside and IFB's on the outside.</span></span></div>
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You can see how high the back top of the old chamber was. With this taper, I will keep the back hot with out over firing the front. </div>
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I have more done on the enlargement and reshaping of my manabigama. I had all the excavating done and was ready for stone dust base to put my concrete blocks on. I took my time and got them all leveled up and ready for the expanded steel mesh or lath as some masons call it. </div>
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Now I started the layout, in brick as I had everything done on paper, making room for my shelves and the firebox. I made the necessary adjustments and it's looking good. I moved the level for the grates up one brick as I know it's good to leave enough room for lots of glistening embers without choking the primary air intakes.</div>
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Now i can get the brick saw and make up some special mix mortar consisting of 50% fireclay and 50% grog. I'll make it the consistancy of peanut butter for troweling and like a milkshake for dipping. It will setup nicely when we fire. No Portland cement on the inside of the kiln though. I will add 10% to the outside's insulating coating (as a binder) of the course sawdust, fire clay, vermiculite and sand mix. I will also use chicken wire to hold the insulation together as it will crack. </div>
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I will remove the placed bricks and "mortar" them in place. This was a "dry run" to make adjustments where needed and get the layout right.</div>
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I have the kiln down to the old buttresses and the chimney. There are
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Ready for new base. I'll have a lower fire box floor and step down in the chamber.</div>
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This post is over due. I went to Rockport, MA earlier this summer with my wife Mary Ann for a nice, little vacation. While there though, I always paint, one of the reasons I go there. I paint in oils, plein air style... out in the open air, on location, painting what I see. We were walking around town checking out the shops and galleries and I walked into this one gallery and was talking to the owner/artist and admiring his work only to find out he was on his way out the door to go paint in Gloucester. I got invited along on the spur of the moment. How cool is that!? I'm going painting with Bruce Turner. We drove around checking his "spots" and ended up on this wharf that had what he was looking for. There was a pair of huge "sail boats" tied up to the huge dock pointing towards him. They were like this boat that I did take a picture of. I forgot to take a picture of what he was painting. </div>
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He set up his easel, that once belonged to either Robert C. Gruppe, son of the famous Emile A. Gruppe, or Emile himself, I can't remember. It is shown in this next picture I got off the internet with Robert painting and in the next one as well with Bruce painting.</div>
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Looks like the same one to me. Not all that important though, it was great to learn from Bruce. He shared his thoughts as they came or when I asked. I painted the boat on the dock, getting repaired.</div>
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Here is a picture of our set up.</div>
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It was cool to paint with him. I even purchased one of his small paintings as a retirement gift to myself. And a reminder of the day. </div>
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<b>NEW KILN TIME</b></h2>
I have started the rebuild of my manabigama. I am carefully taking down
everything, cleaning all the bricks up and then I am going to rebuild a
new, bigger and better kiln. I have a few pictures of the start... of
the physical part, as I have been designing, planning and researching
for over a year now.<br />
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Took the pavers and insulation off the right side.<br />
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Saving the kaowool blanket! <br />
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I added a temporary support (the cover sheet from the steel roof order
for the kiln shed extension) for the bricks. Once I start taking out the
key bricks, the catenary arch, which is self supporting, will fall in. I
don't want them to break or chip, super duty's are not cheap!<br />
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Temporary supports.<br />
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Almost done with the bricks but still need to take down the pavers below.<br />
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Temporary support removed leaving the base section.<b> </b>Bill Perrinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16676717176479747765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086512843252003930.post-579898328778232632012-07-15T09:02:00.001-04:002012-07-15T09:02:21.210-04:00His Game is Mud.....<h1 class="entry-title">
Article in today's local Post Standard....</h1>
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<span style="font-size: large;">His Game is Mud: Bill Perrine, of Homer, makes wood-fired pottery using raw materials from the Tully mudslide of 1993</span></h1>
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It had been 16 years since a rain-soaked chunk of hillside gave way,
and most of the 55 acres of chewed-up soil was covered once again in
vegetation. But the spot of red earth that remained exposed and barren
after the 1993 Tully mudslide caught the eye of Bill Perrine, of Homer,
that day in 2009.<br />
"I thought it had potential," said Perrine, whose studio is called Split Fire Pottery.<br />
Perrine is a rarity: He is among the estimated 2 percent of studio
potters nationwide who dig up and mix a portion of their own clay rather
than buy all of it by the bag through suppliers. That's according to
Bill Jones, of Westerville, Ohio, a member of the American Ceramics
Society and Editor of Pottery Making Illustrated.<br />
"Digging your own clay is very time- and labor-intensive" Jones said. "And most local clay just melts."<br />
Decades of experimentation with pottery and an unusual type of kiln
contribute to Perrine's success with clay harvested from the Tully
mudslide, which happened April 27, 1993, when a wave of mud slammed into
four houses, forcing 15 residents to evacuate and trapping three people
in sticky ooze.<br />
For 26 years, Perrine made pottery with a common electric kiln, one
in which a switch is flipped, the heat is evenly distributed and the
kiln automatically shuts off. Then Perrine purchased a manabigama, a
Japanese-inspired kiln that burns wood to create the heat.<br />
It is temperamental but allows Perrine to fire various types of clay and get a finished product that is distinctive.<br />
"The advantage of wood is that pieces of the ash fly up and settle on
the pottery to give it a look you don't get with an electric kiln," he
said. There is an irregular, speckled glaze preferred by some
collectors. "Those spots are tiny pieces of ash".<br />
In addition to the ash freckles, the wood sends up a flame that
"caresses" and shades the pottery to enhance the unusual characteristics
even more.<br />
"There's an unknown variable when you fire with wood," Perrine said.
"You never know exactly what you'll get until the process is finished
and you see what the flame and wood did to your work."<br />
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Bill Jones claims there are so few manabigamas out there that
"there's actually a map that shows where each one exists in the U.S."<br />
"Most potters would love to have one," Jones said.<br />
It takes two months to prepare the kiln for a new wave of artistry,
all the more impressive considering Perrine is a full- time art teacher
at Huntington School in Syracuse. Pottery is something he does in his
spare time.<br />
The process begins with harvesting three or four types of wood from
trees on his expansive property. The different woods vary the ash
patterns that fly around in the kiln.<br />
Dozens of bottles, bowls, mugs and casserole dishes are crafted at
the wheel and then carefully placed within the kiln before the opening
is sealed off with bricks. For two days, the fire is stoked around the
clock while the clay roasts, cures and hardens. The end result is as
close to ancient pottery of the Japanese and Native Americans as one can
achieve in the 21st century.<br />
The anticipation of nature's finishing touch is what inspired Perrine
to seek out other natural elements in Central New York to work with.<br />
At the mudslide site, the topsoil is turned upside down and a layer
of clay is exposed. Perrine drove around three years ago to see if any
of the red earth would be suitable in the relatively low temperature
that exists at the back of his kiln.<br />
He wrapped a coil of the clay around his finger and when it didn't
crack, he contacted the property owners for permission to take some
home.<br />
"They were so helpful. They helped me dig it up and they brought their ATV to get the buckets to the car," Perrine said.<br />
The 8-gallon supply has lasted through two years of firings. Today,
one in five items he makes includes approximately 15-percent Tully clay
mixed in with commercial clay material; those pieces are identified by
the letter "T" stamped on the bottom.<br />
Armed with U.S. Geological Survey maps, Perrine is now in search of the next great mud discovery in Central New York.<br />
"I'm going to try Pratt's Falls to see if I can find a whiter clay
from the all the limestone around there," he said. He will look in pools
of water where time and water have eroded rock into something fine
enough to sculpt.<br />
After all, he said, "there's a large clay seam in Syracuse, which is how Syracuse China got its start."<br />
For more information on Bill Perrine's work, go to <a href="http://www.splitfirepottery.com/" target="_blank">splitfirepottery.com</a>. To purchase the pottery, go to <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/splitfirepottery" target="_blank">etsy.com/shop/splitfirepottery</a>.
To see Perrine's pottery on display, his next local event is the
Syracuse Arts & Crafts Festival, July 27, 28 and 29 in ColuBill Perrinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16676717176479747765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086512843252003930.post-42944570940885851092012-07-06T14:53:00.001-04:002012-07-06T14:53:14.958-04:00Shows vs. Online<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hmmm
... Always a tough one to answer. I like the ability to share my work,
world-wide, online. I have sent purchases as far as Australia, Europe
and Asia. I find I have a much better chance of reaching someone that
likes my work, especially the unique or more elaborate or outstanding
ones, when online. Not that I don't find people that are interested in
my pieces like that around here locally, perhaps just not as often. I
will always get a few gems or as we call them "gifts from the kiln gods"
that are in a league of their own and I do charge a bit of a premium
for those. Where I live and the areas I do shows in, there is a mixture
of folks with a variety of tastes and I have found though online sales
there are some areas that have more of an interest in the arts and
appreciate the beauty found in handmade, wood-fired pottery.</span></span>
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do however, like the ability to meet new people and having a chance to
interact with them, a lot of times, answering questions about how a
particular piece was made or especially with me being a wood-firer, a
lot of questions about the process and my kiln. What caused something
they noticed on the piece that they don't usually see in other
processes. I do enjoy sharing what I'm passionate about (can you tell?)
with folks that are interested in hearing it. I also enjoy seeing the
smile on someones face when they see something that strikes a chord with
them. I realize at that moment, that they are seeing what I enjoy
seeing in my work. There has to be something pretty special about it,
that would make me want to immerse myself in the depths of the work
necessary for wood firing. It is a lot of work!! But when I get those
"gifts", it is so worth it. </span></span>
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are some pieces that I don't part with, or at least not for a while, up
to two years sometimes, before I put it out on there for someone else
to fall in love with. There is something about pottery that is very
intimate. The touching and using on a daily basis, that creates a
special bond. I can imagine there are some readers that are thinking,
"This poor guy has lost it", and they are free to think what ever they
want of course, but I know there are some that have that "favorite mug",
or special bowl or </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; text-align: -webkit-auto;">platter</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> for
when guests come over. They will put it out as a centerpiece with
snacks, veggies and dip or a meal even on it. I think it takes the
wisdom that comes with age about taking the time to slow down, even a
little, to enjoy life's little pleasures... </span></span></div>
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favorite mug or glass perhaps. I bet some people even keep those pieces
out on "display" all the time to enjoy daily as a "life enriching
item." Wood fired pottery is often not "loud", but has a more subtle
presence to it. That mug that you pick up to drink from and pause to
notice something new on it, the way the ash sprinkled one side...
telling the tale of the firing, which side the fire came from or an edge
where the color changes.. before drinking from it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">So,
getting back to the age old dialogue of shows versus online, I would
have to say... do both! How else can you get the opportunity for more
people to be able to enjoy your work that are beyond "local" and enjoy
the interaction and sharing of your "world" with interested and
interesting people?</span>
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<div style="text-align: center;">I did have this lady on a bike with those cool, modern bike helmets on, stop by to chat for awhile. I was showing her the different clay bodies I use for different parts of the kiln and was mentioning the Tully mud slide of 1993 that was a disaster for some, but it provided some raw material to experiment with for me. It matures around ^ 1 or so, it is very saline and red earthenware looking. (I posted about it last year.) Then she told me who she is, and I recognized her under her helmet once she mentioned her name, Maureen Green. She was a news reporter for one of the local Syracuse channels for years. Now she writes for Syracuse.com and since our first visit, has gotten the okay to do an article on me in the beginning of August, in time for the 31st Annual Pottery Fair in Cazenovia, N.Y. August 20 & 21 at the Stone Quarry Hill Art Park. It will revolve around a positive twist to the disaster back in '93. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Then the graduation of my youngest, Jayson, from high school, shown here with Mary Ann and me.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I modified the floor with a little step up to hopefully do two things: 1) compress the heat/flame a tiny bit and 2) trip up the air flow a little to heat up the back more. I am getting ^ 12 plus in the front and a solid ^ 10 in the lower back. There is a cool spot, (^ 9) in the upper back that this might turn it into a 9 1/2 pushing 10. I have no trouble getting the air/flame flow I need and I think this might slow the flame down and trip it up a little, giving a little longer soak before it exits the flues with out loosing combustion. I have shelf dampers in the chimney that work great and I can slow the flame down plenty, but it also slows down my combustion a bit too much. I figured this would be a mild tweek and wouldn't hurt to try. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I also have cut some bricks to stagger the height of the shelves back there and impeed the flame just the right amount. I'll have 4 1/2" in front, 9" in the middle and 6 1/2" in front of the flues. I know how that arraingment works and it should do the trick here. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Now, the next part is not for the squeemish... remember all that wood I split and stacked and that nice kiln I built...? Well, I am not the only one liking it. I have visitors... </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Do you think they will help with the stoking? .. at least? </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div>Bill Perrinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16676717176479747765noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086512843252003930.post-77821105766597724692011-03-12T22:36:00.000-05:002011-03-12T22:36:02.931-05:00BAMBI (OR BAMBETTE) RETURNS... (THE STORY VERSION)<div align="center"><br />
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</div><div align="center">Quite a while ago, I had a picture of this fawn on my blog, bedded in the thicket next to my house. I have thought of the encounter often. So..."What about it??" you say... well here's my story. Once upon a time, I built a wood-kiln. Not a huge one, but one I could fire by myself. I have been spending all of my "clay time" making pottery to fill this kiln so I can learn how to fire a wood-kiln. I now have fifteen firings under my belt and I feel pretty confident that I have a good grasp on it. I have to admit that I didn't spend as much time on some of the work as I would have liked to, but I didn't want to waste "clay time" on a poor firing. Understandable. I remember not being able to get past cone nine until after my third firing. I can now get to twelve in no time... I actually hold the kiln back now for the results I want. So, what does this have to do with the fawn!!?? Talk about dragging it on and on ... So, now that I am confident with the kiln, I have been putting more time into the pieces. I was a sculpture minor in college and have missed sculpting and now I have been doing more sculptural pieces for the next firing. I have sculpted objects on top of pottery, sculptures all by themselves and I just finished a serving dish with a fawn bedded inbetween the logs on top of it. I am working with a fettling knife in the first picture, carving details in a log. </div><div align="center"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">I want the end of the log to look old and weathered...</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">And have the bark peeling away... and a good shape for a handle.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Add a few shale/limestone rocks like there is poking though the forest floor up in my woods...</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">A bed of leaves to keep dry on... Bambi has returned, just in clay form. </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div align="center" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">I also made some casseroles with a simpler fawn, this particular one is a mule deer fawn...</div><div align="center" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">So... looks like I'm starting to get my sculpture "fix" now, and it looks like the snow is melting some. I've had enough winter. There was three feet of snow out there just one week ago! Closed all the schools in the area. </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">And, I have some more teapots, couple with the birds I've been seeing at the feeder every day...</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">THE END</div>Bill Perrinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16676717176479747765noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086512843252003930.post-69290823171749294242011-02-21T00:36:00.000-05:002011-02-21T00:36:43.995-05:00A TEAPOT FOR DOWN UNDER ...<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">I was commisioned by a couple from Melbourne, Australia to create a teapot and pair of his and her cups as a house warming gift to themselves. They are moving into their new home in mid-April. After several conversations about size, shape, color... and a sketch, we had a plan. I did warn her that the kiln has the final say and I would do all I could to make it work. She understood and off I went. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">I started with throwing the body, spout (not shown), lid and a pair of cups... plus an extra. I'll make/pull the handles later. I let these parts stiffen up a bit to what we call leather hard. What follows is a rough tutorial on teapot making, adding a few techniques and tricks I use to create one. I hope you like it.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Now I'm cutting and test fitting the spout to fit the profile/curve of the body. You can see my chamois on the edge of the bucket is attached to a cork so I don't lose it in the water and that's the top of a fish aquarium heater in my water bucket so my water isn't cold during the winter. I also use a mirror to see the profile of what I'm throwing so I don't have to bend to the side all the time. I had a bad auto accident many years ago and my lower back needs a little help.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Once the spout fits well, I traced around the spout so I would know where to put the strainer holes.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I started to drill the holes and I'll smooth and bevel the holes later with this tapered "plug".</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I add this tapered coil of clay under the lip of the spout and smoothed it in place. This creates a lip that will stops drips from ... well... dripping. The drips won't go "uphill".</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I put a vent hole in the lid and added a pulled handle, adding a coil to each side as a decorative feature. It also gives the handle the needed thickness to look balanced visually. I have bent the handle to compliment the swirl I added to the body of the teapot. I also filled in the juncture of the handle and and spout so there would be a nice "flow" from one into the other. I like how the undulated foot compliments the swirl and handle angle. I could have made the opening of the spout a bit higher, adding a couple of ounces of capacity to the teapot, but I like the looks of it where it is. Also the angle of the spout opening compliments the angle of the back of the handle on the right side. These are some of the considerations I think of when designing the piece. It's like a sculpture to me.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I'll keep you posted on the progress of this teapot in future posts as I go through the glazing, firing and finishing of it. Cheers...</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div>Bill Perrinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16676717176479747765noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086512843252003930.post-21053951244899005842011-02-12T21:17:00.000-05:002011-02-12T21:17:03.947-05:00STONE QUARRY HILL ART PARK - WINTERFEST 2011, WOOD-FIRED RAKU<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">We had the Syracuse Ceramic Guild's Winterfest-ivities today. Folks from all over Central New York came to Stone Quarry Hill Art Park in Cazenovia, N.Y. for a day of snow filled activities. There was lots of sledding down the big hill that the Art Park sits on. Inside the barn was hot chocolate, coffee, snacks, etc. and Denise and Sheila helping visitors with the un-frozen raku glazes. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">There was a core crew of four of us, braving the blustery cold winds to fire our almost new, wood-fired raku kiln. "Double D" Dave, Dave "L" and me on the right, are prepping for the start while Sabrina took a minute to help prepare things inside. Wood splitting, unthawing and pre-heating the bricks took a bit of time to do. </div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Here's "Double D" Dave ('cause his last name starts with D and the other Dave's last name starts with L) splitting some wood in anticipation of the high temps we needed later. We fired to approximately 1850* F</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div align="center">Now the firing takes about fifteen minutes to get to temp, then I remove the door, we take the still glowing, orange - hot pots out with long tongs and place them in a trash can that has a few inches wood shavings in it, throw a big hand full of shavings on top of the pots and then Sabrina quickly pops the lid on while the shavings are still burning to create a smoke filled can. The glazes are molten at this time and will be affected by the changes in the atmosphere. We are reducing the amount of oxygen (why we call it "reduction") and increasing the amount of carbon particles, which in turn affects the looks of the clay and glazes (creating surface lusters, crystals and keeping copper and iron from returning to it's oxidized state which would change the color dramatically). </div><div align="center"><br />
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<div align="center">Then there are the eagles, no... not at the feeder, but on the shelf drying in the studio. Last post, I talked about experimenting with a slipped version of my clay body. I had this cool eagle mold that looks like an antique, and I like antiques, that I have always wanted do someting with. So I cast a couple of them and slab built a base for one with some patriotic American Pride, emphasising the American " I can " attitude.</div><div align="center"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Then there's some more birds again! A woodpecker/duck character with a big mouth and a duck that thinks he's an elk, or reindeer or something. That reindeer costume he put on isn't fooling anyone. He will be pulling a dog sled with the woodpecker/duck in it for that one.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> I realized I needed to get serious again so I made a modified batch of "Tully clay" and made some things with that to try in my next firing. I added a little more stoneware and fireclay to hopefully relieve some of the small bloating and sagging issues I am still having in some zones of the kiln. I have a good cone 9 body but I want a "Tully clay" mix for cone 10 too. I have marked these pieces with a "T".</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A turtle with a mohawk (I have a couple of students with mohawks lately- one student, Dimitri, with orange-red hair, jelled straight like the turtle has), a masked mice hobo, another confused identity, reindeer/duck for another wheeled something... but no birds. Not for the moment, anyway... I have two more bird characters under construction... This IS for the birds. I have pottery orders to fill. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"> I slipped .... in more ways than one. I slipped into overdrive over the holiday season. Glad that's past. Busy with shows, the usual - set 'em up, work some hours, take 'em down, put away. I slipped some wood into a now empty bedroom and "arrainged them" into a studio for Mary Ann's growing bead and jewelry business. Here are the results before she started and after two hours of breaking it in. Glad she likes it.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Now I won't mention anything about going down to the studio and putting on Jimmy Buffett's song "Slip Sliding Away..." but I will mention the winter roads get really slippery when it hits -14* like it did on Monday and I was slipping and sliding on my 40 minute commute to work ... </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">LMAO!!! I slipped again!! Did I say Jimmy Buffett's song??? I meant Paul Simon!! I think my oldies recollection skills need sharpening! Hope I don't slip and cut myself while sharpening... </div>Bill Perrinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16676717176479747765noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086512843252003930.post-31725013656653536722010-12-25T20:30:00.001-05:002010-12-25T20:32:46.421-05:00New Work<div style="text-align: center;">I've had a very busy fall/winter. I had a couple of shows including a two month long holiday "store" called Art Mart in Syracuse, NY. We pay a "booth fee", work 15 hours during the duration of the show and pay a reasonable percentage of our sales. Etsy sales have been steady and I have helped my very talented wife with a few of her custom orders. The most recent one was for a returning customer that has sled dogs. We did some pendents for her last year. Here's Bonnie practicing for a race. Pretty cool. And then the ordered pendents.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">She is showing the Tully clay beads in her post on Monday on her blog if you want to check it out. She is the serious blogging and posting artist in this house. Here is the link for her blog. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://lovemyartjewelry.blogspot.com/">http://lovemyartjewelry.blogspot.com/</a></div>Bill Perrinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16676717176479747765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086512843252003930.post-37312469075177905882010-10-02T10:47:00.000-04:002010-10-02T10:47:46.847-04:00NEXT CYCLE ... plus<div style="text-align: center;">... plus a finished entertainment center :-) Nice to have that done. Not that I didn't enjoy the project, I like woodworking, I just wanted to get going on my next throwing cycle. Mary Ann finished it with 3 coats, and it is starting to show signs on darkening already. Eventually it will match the fireplace wood which is 3 years old now. The sunlight ages cherry and darkens it to a nice patina of sorts. I included some of the details from the fireplace mantle in the entertainment center. Rectangles of wood near the top corners... stuff like that. I used rectangles of wood on the window trim too ( Craftsman style ). The cherry picks up on the stone colors nicely. That's not real stone either! Not too bad for fake, a lot lighter too to install too. I did a decent amount of stone and brick work for customers before, and now it pays off as "practice" for building my own home. </div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">I'll start the cycle again very soon. I am making an entertainment center out of cherry that I had rough sawn two years ago. It has been "stuck" (sticks placed every 20" or so between each board so everything dries flat) and been drying for two years. Here's a preview... don't mind the mess and I included the sketch I made for it. </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">And... when I went up to the workshop to take a picture of the entertainment center, I noticed how beautiful the light and shadow is playing across the hills. So I took a picture of that too.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">I can't wait for the fall... the color is stunning.</div>Bill Perrinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16676717176479747765noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086512843252003930.post-31840180149529854302010-08-31T17:20:00.000-04:002010-08-31T17:20:24.094-04:00REMEMBER ME?<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">I can't believe it was July 4th. I couldn't have been THAT busy.... was I?? I just logged on to post on my blog, 'cause I knew it's been a while... and there it was... July 4th. Wow... sry 'bout that! I remember thinkin' I have this really big show comin' in late August, the 21 and 22, and I scored an excellent location this year. So I figured I better make the best of it and... then I woke up. It was a blur. I remembered thinkin' I have two loads to fire, the July firing and one more just before the show. I don't know how many of you have ever fired a wood-fire kiln, even a smaller one like mine, but for doing it by yourself, it's a lot of work. Not that I'm complainin', I like doing it, it's just that it takes a lot. A lot of preperation, a lot of throwing, trimin', bisque firin' and glazin'... rememberin' (the "g" works on this key board... it's just my way of doin' this writin' stuff ...) what you wanted to try this time and what you were not going to try again. And then there's the "bizen" type ware, a fine particled, iron rich, clay body that works nice in the back of the kiln. I had been doing tests the last few firings, trying to get the right blend so it would mature at cone 9, above the flues, and that had to be included. Then you have to wad them all, load 'em a certain way, put in the door, and fire away. The July firing went 13 hours and the August 16th firing took just shy of 15 hours. By yourself, that's a lot of concentration. But... I like the results. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">So... I had this show, I did well and had a great time with the new wood-fired raku kiln. They put me in charge of it, 'cause I am the wood-firer guy, and it worked great.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">We had the problem of firing freshly glazed pieces and needed to dry them quickly, so I thought of riggin' up a drying "kiln" next to it. I made it kind of like a beehive type kiln, and heated it with my weed burner that I use for some of the candling time on my kiln at home. We threw some embers in there and it worked very well. We ended up having 10 minutes of drying, about a 20 minute firing time and 10+ minutes of reduction in the cans with coarse wood shavings. Folks were very pleased with a 50-ish minute turn over time and we got some great lusters as well.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">I will show you the last firings in a day or two. Nice to get back to blogging.</div>Bill Perrinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16676717176479747765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086512843252003930.post-27020306378672446152010-07-04T10:34:00.001-04:002010-07-04T10:44:29.987-04:00A NEW THIS ... and a NEW THAT...<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Just wanted to show you some brushwork I'm trying again. The tricky part is getting it hot enough without too much ash to obliterate the designs. Placement in the kiln is everything... well very, very important anyway. Last time I tried it, I ended up with too much running. I know this type of work is usually saggered... but, I gotta' try it this way.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Back to glazing... and a couple more experiments.</div>Bill Perrinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16676717176479747765noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086512843252003930.post-41655178105821378112010-06-26T10:35:00.001-04:002010-06-26T10:43:08.164-04:00New Clay Experiments<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">I returned to the Tully Mudslide Friday after work. Back in April, 1993, there was a mudslide that covered a long stretch of road. The land was supersaturated with water after a snow blizzard and heavy rains that spring. Along the base of a mountain, the soil gave way and several homes were destroyed. There was 15 feet of clay and silty soil over the road. The dotted line shows where the underlying road is. Between the red arrows are where the springs are.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div>I drove by and grabbed a handfull of what looked like pretty pure red clay many months ago. I did some initial tests with it, made a coil that wrapped around my finger and didn't crack, etc. I mixed it with my cone 10 stoneware in various percentages looking to lower my clay body by a couple/few cones, hoping to come up with a suitable clay body for the cooler back of my kiln. I have gotten a full cone 9 in the flues. I also knew that the "impurities" in it would give my clay some more character.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"> I will then mix it in various percentages with my clay and put it in my end of June firing. I hope to end up with a clay body that matures in the cone 8-9 range that will be suitable for sculptures and pottery for the back of my kiln and in the secret chamber in the base of the chimney. I am also making some slips to try. I have a 50/50 mix using both mixed hardwood ash and also pure poplar ash for a different color. Then there is a 40/60 and a 60/40 mix for starters. Also in Jack Troy's book, Wood-Fired Stoneware and Porcelain, there's a great looking recipe "Jane Herold's glazes for once-firing". I'm trying #2, </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Thanks again Mike and Erik Young! </div>Bill Perrinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16676717176479747765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086512843252003930.post-7960273072245466952010-06-22T22:11:00.005-04:002010-06-24T09:12:48.369-04:00TWO FOR TEA<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">I haven't blogged in a long time, I have been getting a ton ready for my next firing at the end of the month. I have made an extra effort to create more and accurate tea ware. What I mean by accurate, is making teapots for instance, just the right size. I was making "nice sized ones" but I was not aware of the specific sizes desired by tea drinking connoisseurs. I now know that they like 3-4 oz tea pots for making 2 oz of high quality tea (gyokuro) and these small ones are called kyusu or a houhin. Then they get big for sencha, like a 9 oz tea pot is nice. This will make two smaller pours or one bigger one. </div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Then you press them together with wiggles to make the slip ooze out. Then you know it won't crack under firing stresses. Clean it up with a bristle brush and voila! </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMcpX4nMTkVcZQBE8XoDCbPm2BPDBJERGiU3CbFfw_AFTcBa7L3hRnjuJq8YrnJhv0F1_ffzakHt9JD_GVLyDw_OZH_dGK05lsXw-wC3w1h_p7VEvlAy-y4j63ZPszFdwIcJpQCZrjjBlZ/s1600/slip+on+spoutjoint.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMcpX4nMTkVcZQBE8XoDCbPm2BPDBJERGiU3CbFfw_AFTcBa7L3hRnjuJq8YrnJhv0F1_ffzakHt9JD_GVLyDw_OZH_dGK05lsXw-wC3w1h_p7VEvlAy-y4j63ZPszFdwIcJpQCZrjjBlZ/s320/slip+on+spoutjoint.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"> It was a nice firing and a great time... they came back to pick theirs up on Saturday Morning. Everyone was real pleased with the results! We will have them back next year, same time.</div>Bill Perrinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16676717176479747765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086512843252003930.post-68062127132460656392010-05-20T18:35:00.007-04:002010-05-21T08:42:38.220-04:00The Campfire / Forest Fire Thing, Part II<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Back to the wood-fire workshop posting. A view of the rest of the great weekend we had. We finished bricking up the door, using my trimmings that hit the floor for mortar.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"> Then onto wadding. I use 1/3 coarse sawdust, 1/3 cut-up straw and 1/3 Hawthorn 80 fireclay. I use quick set wood workers glue (like yellow Elmers) and I don't need to worry about them when loading. There's a post (tick ...tock...) about making wads a few days ago. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">We had an introduction to the kiln and firing overview, then loaded. I explained how you want to think about position/placement, ash... and the flame. Then we talked about cone packs and zones in the kiln. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">I answered general questions for a while. Everyone was so interested in learning all they could about all aspects of the wood fire process. It was a blast. Dave is not in this last picture, he's holding the camera.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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