Tomorrow's Forecast: Smoke and Flames

We called The Ceramics Shop, found out their hours for tomorrow, and chatted with them about the availability of their raku kiln.

We are scheduled for a raku firing tomorrow.

After a quick trip to Home Despot for buckets, empty paint cans, and sawdust, I started mixing our raku glazes:

• A two gallon bucket of Seth's Luster.
• A two gallon bucket of white crackle
• Four 160 gram batches of Louden's base, with 25% of the following mason stains: Deep Crimson, Tangerine, Florentine (green), and Lobster
• The Beads test glaze
• Laguna Clay Raku Glaze Black Laquer
• Laguna Clay Raku Glaze Dark Red
• Laguna Clay Raku 'Mystery Glaze' (suspect that it is glaze called Lithium Slip)
• Discovered a fourth, smaller bag of Laguna raku glaze - Awabi Shell

Needless to say, we had a lot to choose from when we started glazing. I did two rockets, and Julie did two dragons, and four test pieces to see what the glazes will do.

I'll keep everyone posted on the results.