Clay harvested from construction site foundation excavation.
Shadow and clods.
Clay clod.
Harvest vessel.
Inspecting and reducing size of clods with small spade.
Shaved thin section.
Expressions of iron--color variation within a thin section.
Slaking clods in a bucket.
Adding water to dry clay clods.
Watering the clay.
Slaked clay breaking down.
Denaturing the clay into a loose slurry.
Grinding clay for grog tests.
Clay drying out to a workable consistency on a plaster slab.
Buttercreamy clay drying out on a plaster slab.
Now that's some fresh clay!
Filtered test sample poured out on plaster.
Test sample with retaining wall drying out on plaster.
Wedging up a sample of Gaston clay.
Rolling a slab out of a Gaston test sample.
First large vessel out of Gaston Clay! ~7"Dx9"H
A pot coiled out of a test sample of Gaston clay.
Interior of pot made from Gaston clay.
Surface detail of Gaston clay.
A sample poodle.
Sample poodle out of Gaston clay fired to Bisque.
Little jar made out of Gaston clay and Manzanita sand.
Gaston clay mixed with Manzanita sand fired to bisque temperature.
Various beads made from Arizona wild clay.
Bisque-fired Arizona wild clay in palm and Gaston clay on fingers. note the slight color difference..
Grog tests and sample pots, greenware and bisqueware.
Grog, fired to bisque temperature on the right.
Cone 6 fired samples of Gaston clay.
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