Tuesday 29 September 2009

Today's Pots



Today's activity was bottle forms, 6-8" most of the time was spent wedging and reclaiming clay. Oh, and making turning tools.
At the weekend, I'll make a heap of glaze test pieces, even though I've got no glazes as yet. Nor a kiln power supply.
And I'll clean the wheel and throw some white stoneware test pieces. I've got a selection of clays to try.
And teapots, I must make more teapots, and... teacups, and saucers.
Ohhhhhhh, I need a huge lottery win or a mystery millionaire benefactor, so I can buy some old farm buildings in an idyllic setting, build a woodfire kiln, and settle down to making pots. I wouldn't bother with selling them, I just like making......
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7 comments:

  1. SOUB! You are super skilled, holy cats!
    Hey, where is RDM lately?

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  2. It seems you have a pot obsession...

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  3. i wonder how common that last paragraph's fantasy or variations of it are amongst the potters? when i read it, i was there. beautiful pots, i really like the chatter (no big surprise there) and am a big fan of the delineation between body and neck. when's the damn power supply gonna be hooked up?

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  4. Gary! Hahahahaha! Thanks, I'd like to order a year's worth of ego-boosting comments, I'll pay ya later!

    RDM? She's snowed under with new job, pending house-move, kids, and more. She'll spring back, I'm sure, but right now the mule is wading through deep gloop.

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  5. Rita: I do have a pot obsession, or more accurately, a potting obsession. I love squishing clay fresh from the ground, I love finding mediaeval potsherds in the furrows of a fresh-ploughed field, I love filling a kiln with roaring flame, I love that moment when you first crack the kiln door open after a firing, when it's still hot enough to flash-frizzle your hair if you get too close. Oh yes, I love it all.
    I first outed myself on the blog.... here :
    http://gritinthegears.blogspot.com/2008/06/of-allure-of-clay.html
    I'm bad at labelling and tagging blogposts, so it's hard to remember where things are.

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  6. Jum. What do you mean to say? That's MY fantasy. Are you suggesting.... Oh horror!
    But yes. I know I'm not alone in it. The dream of a place free from the need to do drudge work to pay the bills, freedom to make things without thinking "I need to sell x-much this week, to cover the bills". I confess, it ground me down, making rent-paying easy-sellers.
    I envisage a little village, full of arty minded people, where everybody does their own thing, can collaborate if they like, there'd be good food and music, a quiet lake and a pondering tree, maybe a tourist trap happening place on main street, gallery, demos, courses in the summer.
    Sigh. I can dream, can't I?

    I'll order the electrics up tomorrow. I've got enough bisc ware to do a glaze firing already! (wrapped in newspaper from long ago).

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