Monday, January 24
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Continued reasonable weather.
That I went to pottery. I haven't been for a while because of bad weather, but I made it!
I had a whole bunch of pieces dry enough for their first firing (no glaze in this one), so I put them in the area for items to be fired.
I threw two decent looking pieces. Not bad.
Enjoyed the company of two other potters. I get a kick out of how pottery people, or at least the ones I know, all seem to be so willing to speak their mind or talk about controversial stuff all the time. I would say they are all pretty dramatic, in spite of me saying how much I dislike drama, in the right context it can be fun. I wonder if most potters are so....like that.
I picked up a few groceries on my way out of town.
It snowed a fair amount today, but it was kind of dry and gritty so at least the roads weren't slippery.
I learned today: Talking to another potter about sculpture, and apparently there is a special clay for that, and that you don't use a wire armature (form) for anything you plan on firing, you instead learn how to carve your form in such a way that you support it while it's in progress, like for example you might be making a human form, so you'd wait to carve out thinner parts like the neck until the clay is drier so it still holds up the head, and how you have to use things to prop up limbs so they don't warp or sag.
I am trying to see if she would like to do a special class to teach sculpture methods, because one of the shortcomings of this pottery group is that there is very little formal teaching, and so many of us have to learn things the hard way, or stagnate because we only know a few things. I would love to try sculpture.
Continued reasonable weather.
That I went to pottery. I haven't been for a while because of bad weather, but I made it!
I had a whole bunch of pieces dry enough for their first firing (no glaze in this one), so I put them in the area for items to be fired.
I threw two decent looking pieces. Not bad.
Enjoyed the company of two other potters. I get a kick out of how pottery people, or at least the ones I know, all seem to be so willing to speak their mind or talk about controversial stuff all the time. I would say they are all pretty dramatic, in spite of me saying how much I dislike drama, in the right context it can be fun. I wonder if most potters are so....like that.
I picked up a few groceries on my way out of town.
It snowed a fair amount today, but it was kind of dry and gritty so at least the roads weren't slippery.
I learned today: Talking to another potter about sculpture, and apparently there is a special clay for that, and that you don't use a wire armature (form) for anything you plan on firing, you instead learn how to carve your form in such a way that you support it while it's in progress, like for example you might be making a human form, so you'd wait to carve out thinner parts like the neck until the clay is drier so it still holds up the head, and how you have to use things to prop up limbs so they don't warp or sag.
I am trying to see if she would like to do a special class to teach sculpture methods, because one of the shortcomings of this pottery group is that there is very little formal teaching, and so many of us have to learn things the hard way, or stagnate because we only know a few things. I would love to try sculpture.
