Linda Blossom on wed 28 feb 01
Since most of my work, except for the mural work, has been architectural and
I made it a point to practice on my own house first, my house is the
culmination of about ten years of learning. When I started this little
venture in 1991 I didn't know how to sieve a glaze (how WAS I going to get
glaze to go through that thing without any visible openings?!) or make clay
and today I make all my glazes and clays as well as tiles, sinks, and window
surrounds. I had only ever fired a small electric kiln and the first thing
I did was go out and buy a used gas kiln and read the Energy Efficient
Potter so I could fire it. What would I have done without books?? I bought
James Chappell's book on Clay and glazes, made a list of the glaze
ingredients he used in the recipes and then ordered some of all of them and
started testing whatever sounded interesting. Today I have a repertoire of
probably a couple hundred glazes.
I finally finished the last rooms in the house and took the pictures needed
to start the process of selling it. I never thought when I began that I
would have ceramic in every one of the eleven rooms (it was 13 before rooms
were combined to make larger rooms). The downstairs bathroom was my first
major project in 1992. I came back from a Peter King workshop and thinking I
knew what I was doing, I gutted the entire bathroom and began making window
surrounds. The bedrooms were the last to be done.
The pictures have been put on the Nottingham Center for the Arts website at
http://www.nottinghamarts.org I took all the pictures with my Sony Mavica.
I prefer a digital for indoor pictures because of the built in white balance
that saves me from the issue of daylight or indoor film. I could never have
paid a photographer to take all of these pictures. From here I will go to
work trying some 120 slide film for the murals. I just need an overcast
but warmish day. A little hard to get this time of year in upstate New York.
This ends one phase of my work and I can only wonder where it will go when I
go to California and work around others, something I have never done. I
always appreciated unloading the kiln alone so I wouldn't have to share the
possibly disappointing results of my many tests. So if you work alone and
rely on books, take heart, you may just end up decorating every surface
around you. Working alone has its effect.
Linda Blossom
Ithaca, NY
CINDI ANDERSON on thu 1 mar 01
blossom1@USADATANET.NET
Hi
I don't get it. Where are the photos? Can't find any links???
Thanks!
Linda Blossom wrote:
> Since most of my work, except for the mural work, has been architectural and
> I made it a point to practice on my own house first, my house is the
> culmination of about ten years of learning. When I started this little
> venture in 1991 I didn't know how to sieve a glaze (how WAS I going to get
> glaze to go through that thing without any visible openings?!) or make clay
> and today I make all my glazes and clays as well as tiles, sinks, and window
> surrounds. I had only ever fired a small electric kiln and the first thing
> I did was go out and buy a used gas kiln and read the Energy Efficient
> Potter so I could fire it. What would I have done without books?? I bought
> James Chappell's book on Clay and glazes, made a list of the glaze
> ingredients he used in the recipes and then ordered some of all of them and
> started testing whatever sounded interesting. Today I have a repertoire of
> probably a couple hundred glazes.
>
> I finally finished the last rooms in the house and took the pictures needed
> to start the process of selling it. I never thought when I began that I
> would have ceramic in every one of the eleven rooms (it was 13 before rooms
> were combined to make larger rooms). The downstairs bathroom was my first
> major project in 1992. I came back from a Peter King workshop and thinking I
> knew what I was doing, I gutted the entire bathroom and began making window
> surrounds. The bedrooms were the last to be done.
>
> The pictures have been put on the Nottingham Center for the Arts website at
> http://www.nottinghamarts.org I took all the pictures with my Sony Mavica.
> I prefer a digital for indoor pictures because of the built in white balance
> that saves me from the issue of daylight or indoor film. I could never have
> paid a photographer to take all of these pictures. From here I will go to
> work trying some 120 slide film for the murals. I just need an overcast
> but warmish day. A little hard to get this time of year in upstate New York.
>
> This ends one phase of my work and I can only wonder where it will go when I
> go to California and work around others, something I have never done. I
> always appreciated unloading the kiln alone so I wouldn't have to share the
> possibly disappointing results of my many tests. So if you work alone and
> rely on books, take heart, you may just end up decorating every surface
> around you. Working alone has its effect.
>
> Linda Blossom
> Ithaca, NY
>
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Rod, Marian, and Holly Morris on thu 1 mar 01
> The pictures have been put on the Nottingham Center for the Arts website
at
> http://www.nottinghamarts.org
Your website and house knocked my socks off! Be sure and let us know when
you are doing workshops!
Marian in Michigan
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From: "Linda Blossom"
Linda Blossom on thu 1 mar 01
How sweet!! I will probably be doing workshops at Nottingham but will do a
tile class before leaving here. Maybe in April. You could always come and
stay in the spare room!
Linda
Ducka Kelly on sat 3 mar 01
Linda Blossom
Ithaca, NY
The pictures have been put on the Nottingham Center for the Arts website at
http://www.nottinghamarts.org
Linda, your work is absolutely beautiful. I am glad to see how your house
ended up. Your my friend, and teacher.
The first time I saw Linda's work I knew I wanted to meet her and learn
from her. Thankfully I was able to. Although still struggling financially,
I am finally getting to a place where I can really begin to work on my own
art.
Thank you Linda,
Ducka
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