Clennell on fri 2 oct 98
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>I can just hear Tony now. I love tenmoku, shino, and celadon, and he
>always said if you have to make a living making pots, you have to sell
>blue. Well, the opal glaze doesn't turn me on, kind of looks like a cone 6
>glaze, but the Woo Blue, has RUST in it!!!
>
>For those who really like blues, Tracy Wilson posted a huge list, on
>2/10/98 of c 9/10 Blue glazes, which I printed out. You might find it in
>the archives.
>
>No Blues For Me, Liz
>
I gotta defend the blues cause unlike Liz I get em' from time to time.
Actually I kind of like them. Got some great pots in the house with blue.
Korean bowls with a wonderful dark blue temmoku, Todd Piker Devon jug with
blue slip trailing, Eric Wong shino plate with dark blue slip underneath, a
blue green celedon plate by Harlan House- to die for glaze. Why did I pick
these 4 pots? Cause they are temmoku, shino, woodfire and celedon. All of
them have the blues.
The Inuit have 28 different names for snow depending on its type. Snow #1
is probably son of bitchin' snow and #28 is beautiful snow. Blue is just
like that only with more variations.
Blue can be OK and so can snow. I love a good snowfall on a hot August
day. Oh, oh now I've got our friends from south of the border planning a
August ski holiday in Canada. I can see the roof racks with skiis on them
at the border now.
Cheers for now,
Little Boy Blue
Tony and Sheila Clennell
Box 10 RR# 2
Wiarton, Ontario
Canada N0H 2T0
phone (519) 534-2935
fax (519) 534-0602
Dwiggins, Sandra (NCI) on sat 3 oct 98
According to the survey done by two Russian emigre artists, blue is America's
favorite color. Doesn't matter what shade apparently....
Sandy D.
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From: Clennell [SMTP:clennell@bmts.com]
Sent: Friday, October 02, 1998 8:50 AM
To: CLAYART@LSV.UKY.EDU
Subject: Defendin' da blues
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>
>I can just hear Tony now. I love tenmoku, shino, and celadon, and he
>always said if you have to make a living making pots, you have to sell
>blue. Well, the opal glaze doesn't turn me on, kind of looks like a cone 6
>glaze, but the Woo Blue, has RUST in it!!!
>
>For those who really like blues, Tracy Wilson posted a huge list, on
>2/10/98 of c 9/10 Blue glazes, which I printed out. You might find it in
>the archives.
>
>No Blues For Me, Liz
>
I gotta defend the blues cause unlike Liz I get em' from time to time.
Actually I kind of like them. Got some great pots in the house with blue.
Korean bowls with a wonderful dark blue temmoku, Todd Piker Devon jug with
blue slip trailing, Eric Wong shino plate with dark blue slip underneath, a
blue green celedon plate by Harlan House- to die for glaze. Why did I pick
these 4 pots? Cause they are temmoku, shino, woodfire and celedon. All of
them have the blues.
The Inuit have 28 different names for snow depending on its type. Snow #1
is probably son of bitchin' snow and #28 is beautiful snow. Blue is just
like that only with more variations.
Blue can be OK and so can snow. I love a good snowfall on a hot August
day. Oh, oh now I've got our friends from south of the border planning a
August ski holiday in Canada. I can see the roof racks with skiis on them
at the border now.
Cheers for now,
Little Boy Blue
Tony and Sheila Clennell
Box 10 RR# 2
Wiarton, Ontario
Canada N0H 2T0
phone (519) 534-2935
fax (519) 534-0602
Liz Willoughby on sat 3 oct 98
O.K. Tony you are so right. My favourite celadon is not the green, but the
pale blue/grey one. . . and all the wonderful blues in the sky, flowers,
fruit, stones, trees, all variations of blue. And the blues that B.B.King
sings, love those blues... but the bright, blaring cobalt blue, without any
warm tones, shakes me up, just like when I do get the blues.
Those maple trees outside are turning the most wonderful shades of rust,
orange, yellow, brown, beige; reminds me of shino, tenmoku, kaki, and
woodfired bricks from your old kiln. These warm colours, help me from
"getting" the blues.
Nothin' like "Autumn Leaves", Liz
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>>I can just hear Tony now. I love tenmoku, shino, and celadon, and he
>>always said if you have to make a living making pots, you have to sell
>>blue. Well, the opal glaze doesn't turn me on, kind of looks like a cone 6
>>glaze, but the Woo Blue, has RUST in it!!!
>>
>>For those who really like blues, Tracy Wilson posted a huge list, on
>>2/10/98 of c 9/10 Blue glazes, which I printed out. You might find it in
>>the archives.
>>
>>No Blues For Me, Liz
>>
>
>
>I gotta defend the blues cause unlike Liz I get em' from time to time.
>Actually I kind of like them. Got some great pots in the house with blue.
>Korean bowls with a wonderful dark blue temmoku, Todd Piker Devon jug with
>blue slip trailing, Eric Wong shino plate with dark blue slip underneath, a
>blue green celedon plate by Harlan House- to die for glaze. Why did I pick
>these 4 pots? Cause they are temmoku, shino, woodfire and celedon. All of
>them have the blues.
>The Inuit have 28 different names for snow depending on its type. Snow #1
>is probably son of bitchin' snow and #28 is beautiful snow. Blue is just
>like that only with more variations.
>Blue can be OK and so can snow. I love a good snowfall on a hot August
>day. Oh, oh now I've got our friends from south of the border planning a
>August ski holiday in Canada. I can see the roof racks with skiis on them
>at the border now.
>Cheers for now,
>Little Boy Blue
>
>Tony and Sheila Clennell
>Box 10 RR# 2
>Wiarton, Ontario
>Canada N0H 2T0
>phone (519) 534-2935
>fax (519) 534-0602
Liz Willoughby
R.R. 1
Grafton, Ontario
Canada. K0K 2G0
e-mail lizwill@phc.igs.net
Carolynn Palmer on sun 4 oct 98
Blue sells. I sell more blue than all other colors combined. When in doubt,
I make it blue. It doesn't seem to matter what shade of blue as long as it's
blue.
I don't however make slides for jurying purposes of anything blue. The buying
public loves blue, juries in my experience, do not.
Carolynn Palmer, Somerset Center, Michigan
Kathi LeSueur on mon 5 oct 98
I once had a conversation with a potter who's wholesales almost his entire
yearly production. He said, " I use two glazes. One is blue.............. and
one is not." Guess which one he sold the most of.
Kathi LeSueur
Cindy on tue 6 oct 98
I have to cast my vote with Carolynn. Blue sells. I make other colors only
on special order, or for myself. Shop owners have also discovered this
secret, and I can't sell them anything but blue, either. It doesn't have to
be all blue, though. White and blue, brown and blue, black and blue (green
and blue doesn't do too well for me) are all okay, but the blue's gotta be
there.
Juries may not feel the same way, I don't know, but I'll keep Carolynn's
advice in mind. It makes sense. Juries are probably mostly composed of
artsy types, and we artsy types are kind of . . . um . . . eccentric.
Cindy Strnad
Earthen Vessels
Custer, SD
USA http://blackhills-info.com/a/cindys/menu.htm
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> From: Carolynn Palmer
> To: CLAYART@LSV.UKY.EDU
> Subject: Re: Defendin' da blues
> Date: Sunday, October 04, 1998 1:33 PM
>
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> Blue sells. I sell more blue than all other colors combined. When in
doubt,
> I make it blue. It doesn't seem to matter what shade of blue as long as
it's
> blue.
>
> I don't however make slides for jurying purposes of anything blue. The
buying
> public loves blue, juries in my experience, do not.
>
> Carolynn Palmer, Somerset Center, Michigan
>
June Perry on wed 7 oct 98
Recently I visited a pot shop/gallery in Central California and the clerk said
"My boss will buy anything as long as it's blue!" About 90% of the work on
sale was blue or had blue in it.
Fortunately, I like blue and am not ashamed to admit it! I also love Shino,
Tenmoku and everything else. I don't like the flat Noxzema blue, but put a
little rutile and copper in the formula and it gives it a bit more complexity
and richness and softens the harshness of that flat Noxzema color.
I did a show once where the only things I sold were that blue! I had some nice
low salt pieces, some beautiful shinos, celadons, iron reds, etc and only blue
sold! I think it's because so many people have blue in their kitchen decor,
including me!
I always loved the look of my blue/white plaid covered chairs and all those
shiny copper pots and my barn red stained beams. It always reminded me of a
country french kitchen. Plus, a lot of foods look great served in blue bowls,
except for french onion soup -- which must go in my shino bowls which
compliment the rustic quality of all that cheese dripping over the edges. :-)
So, I'm out of the "Blue Closet" and it feels good! :-)
Warm regards,
June
Sheilah Bliss on fri 9 oct 98
In a message dated 10/7/98 4:47:43 AM, you wrote:
<<
So, I'm out of the "Blue Closet" and it feels good! :-)
Warm regards,
June
>>
Well, June... If you're brave enough to face the world and openly announce
your affinity with blue, then I, too, will liberate myself and come out of the
Blue Closet. ...."My name is Sheilah Bliss, and I like BLUE!"
ooohh.... yess.... that does feel good!
Lee Love on sun 11 oct 98
I like Blues that don't come from Cobalt. Mine all come from Iron or
Rutile. My favorite is a Chun.
--
/(o\' Lee In Saint Paul, Minnesota USA
\o)/' mailto:Ikiru@Kami.com ICQ# 20586182
' http://www.millcomm.com/~leelove/bio.html
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