Though the sun is shining, the water in Limestone Creek is still ice cold. Undaunted, students get out the trowels and dig the clay out of the stream bed. Clay below water line is clean, easy to work with. Students are instructed to pack enough clay in the plastic bags to complete their next project - and no more than they can carry the next mile to the road. The clay is extremely fine textured-the consistency and fine particle size of porcelain.
Students work with the clay, feeling how plastic and responsive it is to shaping.
This clay will fire to cone 02. After everyone had dug enough clay to bring back to school for their next project, we paused to listen to the trees. Really cool sound if the wind is blowing in, and swaying the tops of the tree. All rights reserved.