Catnip Wednesday
Revisiting a former idea.....
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Day 2
Sometimes it feels like one step forward and two steps back. I think I'm liking this last one I did the best, but maybe that's because the light was diminished, so somehow the image came more clearly to me.
Pottery, how you delight and disappoint
Sometimes the challenge of filling a deeply curved space is tedious, and difficult, yet something exciting emerges if you don't give up on it. And then, there is the thrill of an image that comes so easily, only to begin to peel off after the bisque. I knew the yellow was problematic, but still I hoped I could make it work..... This was the one plate of 8 I was most excited about. Now I get to keep it around for a while and learn it's story, before it all peels away.
Liz Sparks
I have a sweet little teapot and plate I got from Liz just before she went to grad school at Alfred. They truly are wonderful pots to use. I love what she is doing with these plates.... http://www.lizsparks.net/
Pottery in action!!
Mary's breakfast.....sent via i-phone.... I love cucumbers and tomatoes for breakfast myself.....looks like a good way to start the day to me!
Cardinals in 7!!!!
That baseball game was a real thriller Thursday night, and having gone to school in St. Louis, I had to watch until the sweet end. What a great lesson to never give up hope!!!!!!!!!! On another note, here is yesterday's work. These plates aren't fired yet, but are few variations on a requested theme.......
Almost
I'm still slowly slogging through any bit of unfinished green/bisqueware in my studio. Everything is fair game, including random bits friends have made and left behind. This is a little fragment of a painting I did on a plate my friend Alice made two summers ago! I suspect it may look better now before it gets fired, and densities of color change, so I thought I'd share the unfinished results. It was fun to work on someone else's surface, responding to another's marks. I'm curious to know how it will end up?
