803

Today the was finally the last day of the actual making of the tiles, 803 hand made! At least.
Some of the tiles got broken on the way, but that is always inevitable. It took two and half weeks and three persons and it has been intensive and long days.

Krish and Anette came to try out tile making.

There was small step back with the glaze tests. Since Serde has only one kiln,  Aizpute´s Art School was kind enough to let me to fire the test tiles in theirs. Unfortunately with this 53 year old soviet miraclec the firing process is very difficult to control, so the results were more or less boiled. I wasn´t pleased with the colors anyway so I think I need to come up with some new ideas.
The glaze base i going to be this glossy white low fire glaze where I will mix in some pigments.
I´m not so huge fan of this earthy red-brown color of the clay.

Tomorrow I will go hiking with some others for three days, we will walk from Liethuania to Latvia around 70 km, so there will be a small vacation from the project. I can really feel it in my hands that they need some rest.