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Thanks, Mea and Chris. I checked out the craft booth lighting advertisers on the Sunshine Artist forum as Chris suggested, but the $650 and up price tag is just too steep for me this year. I checked out the links that Mea sent, and I think I can afford track lights from a big box store. I just need to read some more to understand how to quantify the amount/type of light that I need, and whether those track lights can provide it. I did find an article (http://ezinearticles.com/?Lighting-a-Fine-Craft-Trade-Show-Booth---Options-for-the-Budget-Conscious-Artist&id=496824) about this subject, written by a jeweler, where she described purchasing track lights from a big box store and using 8 halogen bulbs, 50 watt, par 20, with a mixture of floods and spots. The price tag on that set up, with tracks, extension cords, etc, etc was under $250, which is in my budget. Now I guess I need to find a technical article (that I can understand!) about lighting....

Pres & TJR - GREAT suggestions that I wish I'd read three days ago BEFORE a film crew came to my studio to do a 5-minute documentary on me & my sculpting. Arrrgh! I'm afraid that I was boring, boring, boring. I also got this great advice from a friend, albeit a day too late : "THINK, THEN SPEAK!" Damn! Now, why didn't I think of that???

REALLY??? Apparently I've been wasting time and electricity! I have an old kiln with no fancy computerization, so will someone please tell me exactly what kind of firing speed is safe for 1/4"-1/2" thick earthenware or raku sculpture that has been bisqued, and is being fired with only underglazes or copper carbonate? In other words, I don't have to take into consideration glaze properties. I'm now embarrassed to admit that I spent 7 hours getting previously bisqued work up to cone 04 this week for the underglaze firing! As for the "risky" temperatures, how do you "baby" your work through those? And how fast can the cooling-down process can be without risking injury to the (in my case) sculptures? Boy, this is good news if I'm hearing what I think I'm hearing!
Jayne

Great ideas, thanks! Jayne

I wasn't really looking for items that provide patterned texture -- I have a drawer or two full of those! I've seen sculptural work that looks as if it has weathered for centuries and I wondered what items could be pushed into the clay to give a deeply pitted look. I read about one sculptor who used a power hose to blast his large clay sculptures with water and thus create an ancient weathered look. That is NOT an option in my little studio! (The idea does create some comical mental pictures, though!)
Thanks, Jayne