Getting ready for the Kiln Opening

We unloaded our kiln on Thursday Morning at 6am.
It was good firing, I thought.

Door Side

Cone 10 down on the bottom layer
and cone 11 down on the top

Before sun rise

Wall side 

Lots of clean up

Tea Pots

After cleaning up pots, I worked on display. It's been empty in the gallery room, and now it looks the space filled up well.

Lots of mugs

STARworks Seagrove 10 clay and Ash glaze

Takuro's large jars, 27 inch (68.5cm) height

Hitomi's large bowl, 17 inch (43.5cm) width
Okeemedium 10

Mugs, mugs, mugs

Takuro's flower vase, just for one flower

My teapots, one drip from the spouts

Plates and rice bowls

I also made the sign. Fancy!

Cat's are busy, too

Wood Firing, April 12-14, 2013

We have just finished wood firing for the Spring Kiln Opening which will be hold this weekend.
These below is a 2013 spring wood firing notes.

We had wood bisque firing on March 30, 2013.

Then we start glazing...

Kiln loading day on April 12 (Fri).

Sun rise

dogwood

Wall side, the first layer

Wall side, 2nd layer

Wall side, 3rd layer

Wall side, 4th layer

Wall side complete

Door side, whole loading done

We started gas pre-heating on Friday 10pm.
And Takuro got up early and started wood burning from 5am on Saturday morning.

He loves wood firing job

When temperature reach 1100 C,
big frame comes from the chimney

Salt kicked in

Kiln Log
April 12 (Fri)
5pm Finished loading kiln
10pm Start gas pre-heating

April 13 (Sat)
5am Start wood burning about 30 degrees in Celsius
12pm 800 C
5pm 1150 C
6pm 1200 C
9pm Salt kicked in
11pm 1300 C
Hottest part got cone 11 half

April 14 (Sun)
1am 1290
coolest part got cone 10 down
Kiln shut down

Special Thanks to:
Wayne Shiver
Jacob and Elizabeth
Santiago
Mr. Pete

Unloading will be on Wednesday evening.

Spring Kiln Opening 2013

Studio Touya will have a spring kiln opening on April 20(Sat) & 21(Sun).
April 20 (sat): 9am - 5pm
April 21 (Sun): 10am - 4pm
We will feature the latest wood fired pots and offer refreshments.

More information about the Seagrove Spring Kiln Opening event, 
please visit the Discover of Seagrove Website

Hope to see you on April 20&21!

Website Renewal

Takuro spent lots of time after boys go to bed, and finally our website got renewal.
Please take a look!

http://www.studiotouya.com/

Tea Time Show at NCPC

Sorry I was not able to post for a while.
We all got cold in the middle of January and it took long time to get rid of sickness!
Now I finally got better and feel like I can do work!

Currently Takuro and I have a group show at North Carolina Pottery Center, Tea time Series 2.
http://www.ncpotterycenter.org/

Hitomi Shibata
Japanese Tea Pot

Takuro Shibata
Japanese Teapot

The show will be hold February 2 - April 27, 2013.