For much of 2025 I worked with  porcelain and some North Dakota Clay (literally dug from the ground in Western North Dakota by Don Miller and Curt Wessman, And, by the way, it's quite a process to get that native clay ready for working with and firing...a labor of love, believe me...). ​

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But after working with it for about a year, I have finished up the ND clay, and at the end of June, the porcelain was gone too. I worked with that clay for about a year also. Then it was back to high fire white stoneware and  another commercial stoneware.

 

Since I mostly do coil work,  (although the plates here are slabs), hand building--the going is slow. And also the firing of the cone 9/10 gas reduction kiln happens less often than cone 6 oxidation.-- it is a practice in patience, which I guess is a good thing. 

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When I don't have my hands in clay, I also spend a bit of time working on watercolor painting, which I truly love. Painting on clay is so different from watercolor on paper...both  good practices, and I'd say time well spent. (of course, the house is sadly neglected and a mess...but oh well...)

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Life is good!