I am really wrestling with what I should paint. I am really tired of my color palette. I am thankful that I was able to buy large bottles of red, blue, yellow, green, black and white in acrylic and I still have about 1/2 in each bottle even after doing some larger paintings. I have a large frame 6 foot by 4 foot that someone gave me as play background. Its a music scene with black paint on a thin canvas. I hate to put all that effort into canvas that may tear.

We fired a large wood burning pottery kiln last weekend. We were able to get to high temperature but we did not hold it in reduction (make kiln smoke) for couple days so I hear that there is little color. If so most will have to be refired. What we learned:

Kiln fired well and reached temperature after some effort.
Top stoke holes are not right as backpressure when stoking is high.

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