elizabeth priddy on wed 1 sep 99
Howdy howdy howdy!
>I for one, will admit that I would respect you less if you did decide to slip
>cast. There are huge number of your peers who feel the same, it is just
>nobody wants to come out and say it. ...
>Also, I think the person who originally asked the question, probably feels
>the same, that is why she had to ask to begin with.
I, for one, could never flame you, because you are
admitting to the thing that made me post it. I
have the same bias and it almost gave me an ulcer.
I have decided, with some good advice from the
postings, to give myself one week to establish a hump
mold system that will give me the plates I need. If I
can't make significant progress in that week, I will
throw the damn things and be done with it.
"significant progress" means that I will have usable
plates within the next week.
Comments on the suggestions I received:
I think someone else casting them for me makes the
little hairs on the back of my neck go up, although I
might do this if appropriate in the future. I am not
"ready" for this step, just yet, but I might be if
the balance of interest in my work for me swings
towards the painting side any further...
The hump mold sounds promising, although I have not
found a good source for ceramic grade plaster, yet.
The plates are decorative, so they do not need to
stack so much as they need to go in as an installation
as a unified piece. Each Mermaid design is unique and
there are about twenty of them, so each one will stand
alone.
I am going to use the sea muck cast up by hurricane
Dennis to make the rust around the bolts of the port
holes. Sea muck fires to an iron red that would make
you earth tone nuts so very excited...with little bits
of sea shell in it to boot.
And I am designing an additional plate for the Mermaid
series that will deal with hurricanes, explicitly.
Until you have lived through this, you don't know what
a crazy blend waiting, boredom, power loss, and then a
swift dose of abject terror can mean. When your two
hundred year old house shakes like a toy, you know
that Nature is both beautiful and very very ugly.
And speaking of nature and beauty...
Blue is the color of the earth from on high.
People love blue because it is so rarely found in
nature except for the sky and the sea and sometimes
people's eyes. If you really want natural colors on
your pots, make them green or blue, or brown, or the
colors of flowers. Wait, I think I just included all
colors...
Maybe traditionalist potters like browns so much
because of their love for the past and the tradition.
In the past, the ground pigments that give us so much
color today was very hard to come by. The technology
that makes all that color available, including electric
firing, gives us all options that ancient japanese
potters would have leapt at. They made brown work
because it was available and they made the brown that
was do-able beautiful, because they were artists.
Now the color is do-able, and the artists will work
with that, also. The only thing we can be sure of
is change.
Just look at the North Carolina shoreline and marvel
at the inevitable change...and how blue the pictures
are. Blue and white, just like chinese porcelain...
Thanks for listening and for all the generous help!
Dennis appears to be turning back inland, now. O boy!
Keep a good thought!
elizabeth priddy
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Lori Pierce on fri 3 sep 99
Hey, hey Elizabeth...I think you are heading in the right direction, but
don't know about that one week deadline you gave yourself...plaster molds
take time to dry before they can be used, and you will need dozens when this
starts to roll, as indeed it will. Your painting on clay is truely
exquisite,and if this is where you want to go, I believe you will soon have
more work than you can handle. Lori in New Port Richey Fl
-----Original Message-----
From: elizabeth priddy
To: CLAYART@LSV.UKY.EDU
Date: Wednesday, September 01, 1999 5:19 PM
Subject: cast/thrown, hurricanes, mermaids, and blue
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>
>Howdy howdy howdy!
>
>>I for one, will admit that I would respect you less if you did decide to
slip
>>cast. There are huge number of your peers who feel the same, it is just
>>nobody wants to come out and say it. ...
>>Also, I think the person who originally asked the question, probably feels
>>the same, that is why she had to ask to begin with.
>
>
>
>I, for one, could never flame you, because you are
>admitting to the thing that made me post it. I
>have the same bias and it almost gave me an ulcer.
>
>I have decided, with some good advice from the
>postings, to give myself one week to establish a hump
>mold system that will give me the plates I need. If I
>can't make significant progress in that week, I will
>throw the damn things and be done with it.
>
>"significant progress" means that I will have usable
>plates within the next week.
>
>Comments on the suggestions I received:
>
>I think someone else casting them for me makes the
>little hairs on the back of my neck go up, although I
>might do this if appropriate in the future. I am not
>"ready" for this step, just yet, but I might be if
>the balance of interest in my work for me swings
>towards the painting side any further...
>
>
>The hump mold sounds promising, although I have not
>found a good source for ceramic grade plaster, yet.
>
>The plates are decorative, so they do not need to
>stack so much as they need to go in as an installation
>as a unified piece. Each Mermaid design is unique and
>there are about twenty of them, so each one will stand
>alone.
>
>I am going to use the sea muck cast up by hurricane
>Dennis to make the rust around the bolts of the port
>holes. Sea muck fires to an iron red that would make
>you earth tone nuts so very excited...with little bits
>of sea shell in it to boot.
>
>And I am designing an additional plate for the Mermaid
>series that will deal with hurricanes, explicitly.
>Until you have lived through this, you don't know what
>a crazy blend waiting, boredom, power loss, and then a
>swift dose of abject terror can mean. When your two
>hundred year old house shakes like a toy, you know
>that Nature is both beautiful and very very ugly.
>
>And speaking of nature and beauty...
>Blue is the color of the earth from on high.
>People love blue because it is so rarely found in
>nature except for the sky and the sea and sometimes
>people's eyes. If you really want natural colors on
>your pots, make them green or blue, or brown, or the
>colors of flowers. Wait, I think I just included all
>colors...
>
>Maybe traditionalist potters like browns so much
>because of their love for the past and the tradition.
>In the past, the ground pigments that give us so much
>color today was very hard to come by. The technology
>that makes all that color available, including electric
>firing, gives us all options that ancient japanese
>potters would have leapt at. They made brown work
>because it was available and they made the brown that
>was do-able beautiful, because they were artists.
>Now the color is do-able, and the artists will work
>with that, also. The only thing we can be sure of
>is change.
>
>Just look at the North Carolina shoreline and marvel
>at the inevitable change...and how blue the pictures
>are. Blue and white, just like chinese porcelain...
>
>Thanks for listening and for all the generous help!
>
>Dennis appears to be turning back inland, now. O boy!
>
>Keep a good thought!
>
>elizabeth priddy
>
>
>
>
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>Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
>
Janice Alexander on fri 3 sep 99
Hi, Elizabeth,
You forgot to a couple of very important things to your list of what one goes
through whenever a hurricane heads your way. The frenzy of boarding up,
stocking up, and moving everything inside. So when it is finally time for YOU
to come inside and wait it out, you are exhausted!
But at least we can be thankful that we have such a wonderful warning
system--glad it is not tornadoes!!
Janice in Wilmington, NC
Nina Jones on tue 7 sep 99
------------------
Elizabeth, Lori is right. Not only do plaster molds take time to dry, but =
it
takes time to get the knack of slip-casting, especially plates. Also, I've =
got
to agree that the demand for your work will increase dramatically (because =
I've
been to your website--your work really is exquisite). Then you may need
production supplies and equipment, like a slip-casting table, air hose, etc.
I don't particularly care for slip-casting, not because it lacks originality=
(I
disagree--I slip-cast some of my figurines and dolls and I frequently alter =
the
forms after I take them from the molds), but because it is a relatively =
soulless
(there's that word again=21) process. It's not like working with plastic =
clay,
Elizabeth. Production slip casting in particular is so much like a
producing-widgets-in-a-factory JOB that there's no joy in it. One of our =
Girl
Scout camps was conducting an Easter ceramics workshop as part of one of our
theme weekends. I was the activity director for the weekend, and the camp
director for the council office asked me to pour the pieces. We, my husband=
and
I, had three weeks to do it. After pouring, cleaning and firing about 400
ceramic bunnies, ducks and bears, I could not stand the smell of slip for =
weeks.
My husband said if I ever volunteer for that again--with that kind of
deadline--we're going through the Big D (=22don't mean Dallas=22).
I'm not saying not to do the slip casting, because I understand that =
consistency
of form is essential here, I'm just saying Lori's right in that you need to
rethink your deadline and maybe consider getting an assistant because it can=
be
terribly time-consuming.
=3E=3E=3E Lori Pierce =3Clorinfla=40computronicsusa.com=3E 09/03/99 09:13AM =
=3E=3E=3E
----------------------------Original message----------------------------
Hey, hey Elizabeth...I think you are heading in the right direction, but
don't know about that one week deadline you gave yourself...plaster molds
take time to dry before they can be used, and you will need dozens when this
starts to roll, as indeed it will. Your painting on clay is truely
exquisite,and if this is where you want to go, I believe you will soon have
more work than you can handle. Lori in New Port Richey Fl
-----Original Message-----
From: elizabeth priddy =3Cepriddy=40my-Deja.com=3E
To: CLAYART=40LSV.UKY.EDU =3CCLAYART=40LSV.UKY.EDU=3E
Date: Wednesday, September 01, 1999 5:19 PM
Subject: cast/thrown, hurricanes, mermaids, and blue
=3E----------------------------Original message----------------------------
=3E
=3EHowdy howdy howdy=21
=3E
=3E=3EI for one, will admit that I would respect you less if you did decide =
to
slip
=3E=3Ecast. There are huge number of your peers who feel the same, it is =
just
=3E=3Enobody wants to come out and say it. ...
=3E=3EAlso, I think the person who originally asked the question, probably =
feels
=3E=3Ethe same, that is why she had to ask to begin with.
=3E
=3E
=3E
=3EI, for one, could never flame you, because you are
=3Eadmitting to the thing that made me post it. I
=3Ehave the same bias and it almost gave me an ulcer.
=3E
=3EI have decided, with some good advice from the
=3Epostings, to give myself one week to establish a hump
=3Emold system that will give me the plates I need. If I
=3Ecan't make significant progress in that week, I will
=3Ethrow the damn things and be done with it.
=3E
=3E=22significant progress=22 means that I will have usable
=3Eplates within the next week.
=3E
=3EComments on the suggestions I received:
=3E
=3EI think someone else casting them for me makes the
=3Elittle hairs on the back of my neck go up, although I
=3Emight do this if appropriate in the future. I am not
=3E=22ready=22 for this step, just yet, but I might be if
=3Ethe balance of interest in my work for me swings
=3Etowards the painting side any further...
=3E
=3E
=3EThe hump mold sounds promising, although I have not
=3Efound a good source for ceramic grade plaster, yet.
=3E
=3EThe plates are decorative, so they do not need to
=3Estack so much as they need to go in as an installation
=3Eas a unified piece. Each Mermaid design is unique and
=3Ethere are about twenty of them, so each one will stand
=3Ealone.
=3E
=3EI am going to use the sea muck cast up by hurricane
=3EDennis to make the rust around the bolts of the port
=3Eholes. Sea muck fires to an iron red that would make
=3Eyou earth tone nuts so very excited...with little bits
=3Eof sea shell in it to boot.
=3E
=3EAnd I am designing an additional plate for the Mermaid
=3Eseries that will deal with hurricanes, explicitly.
=3EUntil you have lived through this, you don't know what
=3Ea crazy blend waiting, boredom, power loss, and then a
=3Eswift dose of abject terror can mean. When your two
=3Ehundred year old house shakes like a toy, you know
=3Ethat Nature is both beautiful and very very ugly.
=3E
=3EAnd speaking of nature and beauty...
=3EBlue is the color of the earth from on high.
=3EPeople love blue because it is so rarely found in
=3Enature except for the sky and the sea and sometimes
=3Epeople's eyes. If you really want natural colors on
=3Eyour pots, make them green or blue, or brown, or the
=3Ecolors of flowers. Wait, I think I just included all
=3Ecolors...
=3E
=3EMaybe traditionalist potters like browns so much
=3Ebecause of their love for the past and the tradition.
=3EIn the past, the ground pigments that give us so much
=3Ecolor today was very hard to come by. The technology
=3Ethat makes all that color available, including electric
=3Efiring, gives us all options that ancient japanese
=3Epotters would have leapt at. They made brown work
=3Ebecause it was available and they made the brown that
=3Ewas do-able beautiful, because they were artists.
=3ENow the color is do-able, and the artists will work
=3Ewith that, also. The only thing we can be sure of
=3Eis change.
=3E
=3EJust look at the North Carolina shoreline and marvel
=3Eat the inevitable change...and how blue the pictures
=3Eare. Blue and white, just like chinese porcelain...
=3E
=3EThanks for listening and for all the generous help=21
=3E
=3EDennis appears to be turning back inland, now. O boy=21
=3E
=3EKeep a good thought=21
=3E
=3Eelizabeth priddy
=3E
=3E
=3E
=3E
=3E--=3D=3D Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ =3D=3D--
=3EShare what you know. Learn what you don't.
=3E
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