warmth

Today felt like the first day of spring here. My tulips are coming up and have been eaten off again by the passing deer. So much for festive colours in front of the house. The classes at both mohawk and DVSA are between terms and so I had a very short day in a mohawk today. Kiln shelves were washed, platter were checked on and the studio had a quick once over with the mop.

This left me with most of the day to spend in my own studio. For the first time I managed to sit down at my wheel and be bathed in sunlight. My old studio for those of of you who had never been here was in the basement. As was my studio before that and most peoples first studios. They are the unwanted spaces of most homes and are easily converted to a messy area. Finally having a studio above ground is wonderful. The warm sun on my hands as I through made up for the fact that I was wearing a tuque and that the water almost had ice in it. Luckily my clay lives beside my heater and so it too was warm.

Here are a couple of pics of some brie bakers and some new slab dishes with feet on my new rolling racks. The dishes are decorated with roulettes as slabs and after setting up they are slumped over a plaster mold and the feet are added.

The brie bakers all received a generous coating of slip after only a couple of hours of drying. The warmth of the sun was making them happy as well today. Seems like my window placement was a good choice.