Chris began coming to the studio with her mom (Lorraine) to help glaze her pieces. She quickly found out how much fun it is to play with the mud and took off whith her own style.
Note; Lorraine has been recovering from surgery. I hope to get some pictures of her and her work soon.

The colors we get from a firing are unpredictable (remember, it's a crap shoot) but Chris has no complaints about the glazes as she displays two more masks from this firing.

Raymond works on glazing one of his pots. He also creates sculptures like the sea turtle on the right.

Raymond's sea turtle comes out of the fire with exactly the colors he hoped for (lucky stiff!).

Rumi's New York pot, red-hot from the kiln, ignites the shredded paper as it is placed in the can. The tall straight sides made a nice canvas to show the NY skyline, done to commemorate her visit to Manhattan over Spring Break. Imagine the hours of drawing, erasing, waxing, applying tape and glazing!

A group of pots cooling after coming out of the cans. Notice the difference in the colors of the buildings on the NY pot. The wide black stripes on the center pot are unglazed (except for the silver squiggle) as is the black shelf on the right (used as a support for Emily's dragons). The greater the reduction, the more carbon is deposited on the unglazed surfaces, creating a deeper black.