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To: AugustWest who wrote (294)	4/19/2002 2:05:29 AM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 338

Hey! I thought I'd better wake up this thread before it starts to snore or some such thing. I have been thinking about what it is that I want to make as a first couple of projects with the clay. I'm really anxious to try making paper clay...mixing chopped paper with water and then adding clay and then spreading it on plaster to dry out into sheets that you can work with. Anyhow, I would like to do some sculpture with it, but I'm really thinking of starting with something like a sheet of it, and then putting it on top of a chunk of metal screen to give it a backing while I work on it... a wavy shape to start with...slightly...then cutting out pieces of it and adding on pieces... to make a kind of 3-D mural that can hang on the outside walls of my studio once I fire the pieces. Would like to do some kind of raku glazes that are metallic looking... bronzes, steel blues, and so on... Well.. you'll see, if and when I ever manage to get these things done!! (o:

To: AugustWest who wrote (294)	4/27/2002 8:46:07 PM
From: Crocodile	Respond to of 338

This afternoon I was back walking in the woods. Stopped to look around in the couple of acres of Black Locust trees. I don't know if you're familiar with them, but they're a strange tree. Very tall but small diameter and with a flat canopy of leaves and really not much in the way of branches until just at the top. Armed with vicious spikes..natural razor wire. Anyhow, the odd thing about locust is that the trees reach full size and then die where they stand. They are tough, so they don't usually fall over until they really rot out from age. I've cut them up before and they make excellent firewood, although, as I said, of very small diameter, so you don't have to split them. Burns hot as heck with very little smoke. There's a lot of dead locust trees in the forest. As soon as it dries up a little more, I'm hoping to go back with the chainsaw and start cutting some of it up with a mind towards using it as fuel for The Kiln. (o: