November 4
Winter arrived in Willow about a month ago -- cold temps froze the lake and we've now had about three weeks of clear, sunny, cold autumn that looks and feels like winter. Mt. McKinley's been in view each day. After the initial snowfall, there's been no more, so the John Deere garden tractor with snow blower is yet to be tested out, but we've seen skating, ice fishing, plane landing (on wheels), and snow machining on the lake this past week, so that says "winter" to me! Tiles for testing glaze color, behavior, and layering In the studio I've mixed eight glazes, three of which have already settled to a hard layer in the bottom of the bucket, so they were remixed with a drill today in anticipation of glazing tomorrow. Will be starting with clear, white, blue ice, cadet blue, sage, merlot, nutmeg, and black glazes. Made 52 test tiles to see how these glazes will look alone and in layering -- but should have made at least 64 tiles. Guess my small pieces...