The Greatest Great Blue Heron

 

I started this platter a millineum ago. It was built up from a slab of speckled brown clay.  The Great Blue Heron was hand made and built up on the platter separately.  I used every blue glaze we had in our pottery glaze library, from floating blue, asheville eve and castille blue.  Then I waited and waited and waited and waited to have it high fired.  The large kiln at the studio broke down, and it would not fit in the smaller kilns.  Finally, the kiln is now working.  But I think I like this piece more than any I have made, mostly because I had to wait and wait and wait and wait!