Photos are a bit grainy, taking them with one hand while pouring with the other! |
Follower Milestone
Standard teapots and a couple of minis. |
Full frontal |
The other side |
The back side |
More Avian Flu Results
What have I done to my classic teapot??? |
Birdlets – 5″ h |
British Birds
Fresh from Toff’s oven!
Click for bigger, juicier photo |
100 Mugs Concluded
Slip with drip. |
I add the liner glaze shortly after the handles…everything rehydrates and equalizes. Handles don’t crack that way. |
Racked and ready. |
A tableful. |
aerial view |
A Week of 100 Mugs
Barrel shaped and little round ones. 3/4 pound o’ clay. |
Variations on a theme. Nice shadows. Smooth surfaces are for future combing. 1 1/2 pounds. |
My one loss. Mug fatigue |
More atmosphere. |
Hunkering Down
Why did the turtle cross the road…? |
I couldn’t help myself…. |
I love a round pot, don’t you? If you look closely you can see that the handles are a different color clay…I use several and under certain light conditions in my studio I have a hard time telling them apart. I do it all the time. No one knows…
A ‘classic’ vase of mine on the left and knob I’m still not sure of on the right. |
6" x 6" x 6"
I just returned from an exhausting and exhilarating evening at LibertyTown as we opened this month’s exhibition. Well over 600 people came out to view the 195 pieces(!) that were submitted. Elizabeth and Beth did an heroic job of hanging the show. It is wonderful to see how strongly this scale appeals…both to artists and to the public. Sales were brisk throughout the evening and there are still plenty of treasures available.
25% of the show (and a few pots) |
Ed King |
Elizabeth Seaver |
Rob Landeck |
Jenna Anderson |
Wet Work
7 lbs. of clay |
Brenda’s Question Answered
Brenda inquired about the rectangular baking dishes in the last post. They are indeed made without a base, reshaped shortly after throwing, and then attached to slabs that can be thrown or rolled out by hand. I do both, depending on my mood! Today I’m pressing apples to make more ‘scrumpy’!
Casseroles |
Some say jugs…others say pitchers. |
"Clay and Blogs : Telling a Story"
Sounds painful… |
I love how it is eroding…sorry about that, Warren! |
from l. to r. Mick Casson, Maria Martinez, Warren McKenzie, Beatrice Woods, Elijah Comfort |
You’ve seen this right hand side already…if you’re really paying attention… |
POTTER DISCOVERS GOLD!
Lifetime supply… |
All these gears for an old table saw. |
A hell of a saw… |
Getting ready to pour slip over a baking dish. |
Slipped and combed. |
(Re)Quest for Fire!
Underway
‘1/2 gallon jugs’ |
pie dishes |
I know that I promised to leave the birds out of this for now, but they keep happening even as I get back to ‘honest pots’. The two with handles are also jugs with a stopper on the top for filling and beaks for pouring, I know not how well. There are also some bowls happening now, but honest, I’m getting over this ‘avian’ flu!
‘Yaz’ and ‘Zeke’ |
‘Agnes’ and ‘Xavier’
It is always flattering when a new follower joins up here at blog central. I recently lost one, though, and I’m not sure what to make of that. |
More Uses for Cone Box Foam
Emergency Kneepads |
Sweat Band |
Photography Backdrop |
Neck Warmer |
New Blog by a New Friend
(This is my new teaball…a genius idea and totally unconnected to the following post…) |
Enough With the Birds, Already!
trying a more wing-like wing here on the right… |
On the left is ‘Ulswater’ and on the right, ‘Victor’. (not many good “U” names) |
Traveling Remnants
Toff Milway and Ray Finch |
British Cavalcade
Hannah, Paul and CAKE! |
You might want to avert your eyes from this post (Caution: contains 22 photos. That’s 22,000 words if each is worth a thousand!) So, I’m back at my desk on Winchester Street in the good ol’ US of A. I’ve been back home for a week now and I’m just now getting my bearings. So much to digest from my travels and so much to get underway here AND trying to get some momentum in the studio takes a bit of aimless wandering at first.
This is the view down into Ulswater. |
To pick up where my last real blog left off… I left Jan and co. in Blairgowrie and headed west to visit Hannah in Dumfries.
Her wee studio |
…and her wee self! |
These delightful fellows provided the Dixieland music! |
Only in England… |
Lots of British potters make animals and birds, much more that in the US. And many of them are wonderful. |
Inside the walled garden at Hutton-in-the-Forest. This is the site of the festival! |
More Hutton |
This is Ashraf Hanna with me. There will be a prize for the best caption! |
Ulswater, in the Lake District |
I had my first proper English beer here in the winter if 1978. It is still my favorite…SBA, please?! |
The old hearth in the pub |
Cousin Vernon’s cider works, brewed in used bourbon barrels! My highest recommendation… |
Toff’s stand at Hutton. |
Choosing between ancient standing stones and the history of pencils, I took the pencil history and that has made all the difference. Maybe I’ll tell you more about it one day |
Ray Finch in his greenhouse, fretting over his tomatoes. He always does. Kind of like his pots…never quite satisfied. |
I always take pictures of the old bottle kiln. I’m sorry that I never got the chance to fire it. |
This is where I learned to throw lots of pots. A shot of the showroom. |
I love a good stone wall. |
And, of course, a few English birds!
If your still with me, what’s up with photos that run off the page. Have I pushed it too far with too many photos? |
Blog Neglect
Edinburgh
Bloggus Interruptus
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Bird Identification in Virginia
Since I’ve decided to make an entire flock of these critters, I need a tracking system of some sort or other. I once did a ‘100 Fishes” project, a limited edition of small vases, no two alike, numbered and recorded in a lovely book that Paul made for me. Of course, it wouldn’t do to repeat that trick, so I’ve decided that, like the National Weather Service names hurricanes, so shall I name the birds…alphabetically…starting with mens’ names. These smaller lidded guys are, from left to right, Ignatz, Hiram and Knute. Laurence didn’t make it into the photo. Of course, I don’t name them until each is done, since I’d like to think that in some way their character helps suggest the correct moniker.
Dennis Allen suggested, and Megan identified, the similarity between the long necked bird in my last blog post and Feathers McGraw from the Wallace and Gromit claymation series. I often show their videos when I teach workshops!