The stage was set for a week of experimenting - a disused piggery in a lovely rural setting mid-Cheshire.
I've been soaking hemp fibre for a couple of days - so that it doesn't form great hair balls in the plaster - it disperses more evenly in the mix. Lime, sieved earth and clay. Straw, hemp, seaweed glue.
Various different sized aggregates and earth pigments.
At the end of the week I had prepped up 20 boards and completed 4.
An Izumi sample for a client, another saisei ( including eggshells from wild duck eggs abandoned a month ago) sample for another client.
I managed an otsu sample and a haitsuchi sample. They were really satisfying mixes to work with despite the change in weather. I'm on the edge of woods and it had been raining for a week and a cold 12 degrees - the next day it is 24.
Once I get some more time I'm pushing to do a whole series of otsu samples, maybe some hainaka and mizugone. Getting the time to experiment is a luxury at the moment.
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