Firing

 The gas kiln has been loaded and it is ready to be firied.

 First we open the main gas.

 Turn on the outs first and we turn on the ins later on.

 These valves are where the flame shoots out.

After the kiln has been fired the pieces look so different with beautiful colors!

Pugmill

This is called pugmill. When we put recycle clay in it and the clay comes out as a tube shape and we bag the clay and they are ready to be used again!

Chocolate

This chocolate looks like tiny Earth!
Yum

New photos of the term

 Beautiful foggy morning.
I love the bike path to school.

 

My pit fire piece came out and got pretty pattern form the flame.

Pit Fire -firing-

We started the fire at 8:30 in the morning.

Making a nice thick coal bed for our pieces.

Putting tamping layer on top for the pieces to avoid thermal shock.

Loading the pieces!

Cover the pieces with more cow pie, manure,and scrap wood.

Putting sheet metals on top created a huge smoke!

3 hours later. There is less smoke, but the fire is still going.

12 hours after we started the fire, the pit is still burning.
We have to wait to unload until the fire is out and the pit is completely cooled down.

Pit Fire -preparation-

Gathering fuels. Scrap wood from a construction site and other places, compost, bagged manure and cow pie.

Ribbit Ribbit

Cute little frogs I found in my backyard.

More ceramic pieces

A plate

A plate I made for my friend.