primalmommy@IVILLAGE.COM on tue 22 aug 00
I just made myself some letter stamps for about a dollar. I bought some of the abc and 123 dry
pasta noodles (like the kind they sell for soup.) I used a hot glue gun to stick one onto the end of
30 lengths of bamboo shish-kebab skewer (though square wooden matchsticks would have wored
as well.) Remember some of them need to be reversed to print right (f and p and etc.) I sprayed
them with clear acrylic (clear nail polish would have worked) and made a long coil with a flat side
and stuck my little alphabet sticks into it, in order. Enlarged the holes a bit and fired it to make a
rack. They work nicely in softish leather hard clay, and if you break one, there are thousands more
in the pasta box. maybe fun for free school kids' tools? I plan to have students glue some to a bit
of wood to make a stamp to sign their pots (initials or whatever.)
OK, here's a question for those of you with more art and/or history than I: I'm a fan of Dutch genre painting. I am finding lots of images of the crafts people of the time; interior of a weaver's shop, a knife grinder, fishermen, etc. but I am not finding paintings with potters in them - despite the wonderful ceramic colanders and bowls I see in kitchen scenes. Were those imported from elsewhere? Or are there potter painings I'm not finding? I'd be thrilled if somebody could find me one. Thanks in advance.... kelly
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Shelley Corwin on tue 22 aug 00
look around brussels belgium for pottery paintings, check out breugel altho i
don't remember any. see the salt glazed blue ware from there, and the beer
containers. shelley
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