There's a silver lining to every cloud...or to every ruined kiln shelf...

Haia, I know it's been a while, but don't worry i have definately been doing work... lots of experimenting, making miostakes, drawing, and as the title says, ruining kiln shelves...Eek! I started the kiln shelf ruining with some copper experiments, looking at colouring the porcelain naturally, without having to touch glazes - they are very scarey things...

You can't see very well from this photo, but the middle of this end is an amazing honey comb texture!

Even though i made little beds for them to go into the kiln on, the copper still ate through the clay and made an aweful mess of the shelf... With this in mind, i decided to stop experimenting with the copper, because i was losing more by using the copper and having a smooth surface instead of the nice lumpy texture i get with the steel.  It was nice to have a mess around with it though, i might have a little more of a play in the furute, to try and get the green into the porcelain...maybe by combining the steel with the copper!
Be right back, have to go to a pricing workshop!