The best thing about Globe Studios in Kitchener, Ontario is the artists! In order to heat a number of different pigments I was looking at an awful lot of work (typically it takes me 8 hours for each sample). With being down to the last month of my studies, I wasn’t sure how I could get this done …
In stepped Shannon and Juan from Cynosure Jewelry (studio 15). After talking about my concerns, we came up with a solution that would let me heat in batches. It took a night of fabrication, but the result is little pigment trays cut out of firing brick. Each of these holds 9 different rock and soil samples, which I’ll use in creating my upcoming pigment map.