Cold working

Such a busy afternoon, literally if I had to move from one spot to another I ran...
Lene is going to pick up the graal embryo/egg she made the other week, though she needed it engraving. Friday is a quiet day in the studio so I decided to do it..I am after all making graals for my Extension class. Nadine and I tried to remember what colours Lene had used....black with an unknown pinky colour we had dubbed as 'Nipple'...hmmmm. So with limited time, after imagining complex patterns, I told myself to keep it simple.

I made a few cuts on my first bubble overlay..which is a torturous process if there ever was one and of course put the image on upside down, well we live and learn.

I also started roughing out my design for our cameo on the flat skills project....4 layers of bullseye fused.
Off white
Medium blue
Black
Clear

At the end of the day, I switched on kiln 6, with the open faced tree cast.

Did I mention rain?

Dougie drove me to Botany and back to pick up the strip magnet. Lucky for me, for other wise I would have been very wet. 

This is the view from the cold working room, the down pipe on the left was jetting water about a foot up..though by the time I found my camera the rain had lessened some.

What a way to spend a wet day! In the cold working room..using machinery that needs water, though one does feel prepared in gumboots, waterproof apron, earmuffs, face mask and goggles.

My Kiln with the honeycomb face cooled down this afternoon..a bit of a disappointment that the face has no nose. After some kiln schedule swapping I managed to get the same kiln for another few days (higher and longer temp)...though it has put my schedule out of wack....it will be tight!

In the cold room again, week 15

Well Today was spent yet again in the cold working room shared with Katie (all day) Kate, Llana and elective students every now and then.

"the Cube (bane of my life)" : fissured while being pumiced but is still whole & ceriumed.

"unidentified cast object" : hand lapped at 400 & 600. Wheel pumiced and ceriumed.

"various tumblers" : lathed with the cerium pad.

Dougie picked me up at 4.30 upon whence I demanded coffee and cake..which we had at Sappho's second hand book shop in Glebe. We then carried on to see if Hoyts at Broadway had something not too Awful..which turned out to be a movie version of the scifi novel "The land of the lost".
It was very veryvery silly.

Sashimi and plum wine after the film filled any gap there was after a half a small tub of popcorn.
Seriously it WAS the smallest they offer.

Cold working, week 15

Today was spent in the cold room

"the cube" : hand lapping at 600 grit

"Paperweight well" : Grinding, hand lapping at 400 & 600 grit, pumice and cerium on wheel.
nice and polished.

I'm possibly beggining to hate the cube.

COld working i'm begining to think should be done in the summer. My fingers can barely type after all that cold water.

I suppose it doesn't help with the day being dreary cold and wet.

Ah well.