Hi All,
Well, I've never done a blog before. I'm not sure I'll be all that interesting, but I thought I'd give it a try.

Today was fun. In a "I have little to show for it" kind of way. I have recently suddenly re-fallen in love with working with ceramic and custom glaze horses, and, while I stink at it, I really enjoy it.
So today, I poured a few of my molds. Since I'm learning, I never wanted to drop a ton of money into molds, so I bought some Doc Holiday molds, which are pretty generic. I have several of them, but the two I worked with today are the Arabian mare, and the grazing mare. Now, I happen to adore the grazing mare, and I don't normally tinker with her, but last night, I got this great idea and wanted to try it. I cut off her head and neck, and am working on resculpting it to make her scratching her side. Much harder than I expected, since her head is heavier when it's fighting gravity instead of just hanging off her shoulders. But, here are the pieces of her. I'm letting her dry some, and will continue tinkering tomorrow.

The other horse I worked with was the Arabian mare. Now, my kiln is just a wee little thing, and this mare is about an inche too tall for me to actually fire as is (which I found out after I poured and cleaned one). So, I got the idea to cut her head and neck off, and just lower and turn her head a little. Nothing major, right? Til Rachel ran by (my two year old daughter), and Arab's head with PLOP on the sidewalk. Hmm. Thankfully, since I had pour this mare before, and in frustration, throw her into my scrap bucket, I went down, and broke the head off of what was left, and used that. Hence why it's a different color :)



Since taking the pictures, I have cleaned the bodies of both horses, and will hopefully have them done and ready to fire by this weekend :)