I have been trying to make the gas kiln do something that I liked - used mostly rutile and copper red glazes to get an effect of moving and layered color. For the forms I wanted them to have details that had a sense of subtle movement.

It was a busy time getting ready for Rail Road Days in summer 2017. I only had a small eclectic kiln to use so it slowed things down in the firing. I almost did not make the dead line for the show due to kiln issues -- so I was unloading the kiln the morning of the first day of the show! So I, unfortunately, did not get many pictures of the finished projects. Most of them are now in peoples homes. Colored painted flowers are good sellers and the garlic graters, which I saw at another craft fair, are also good sellers. Money for the sales went to the school art program.

At this point I was back to using the gas kiln -- I had not used it much for the last ten years for a lot of reasons. Restarting it proved to be  an issue ....  I could not use the bright colors in the paintings since it would burn out so I mostly used chrome green and cobalt oxide stains. It worked nicely and they were popular. I also was working with copper red and rutile glazes.

one picture of rail road days...