Jonathan Pennington on wed 1 aug 01
My deepest thanks to all who responded to my repeat throwing
questions. I'll be using all of the information to practice, practice,
practice. And I'll get in touch with Susan Filley and some others
locally. Susan actually teaches at the museum that I took a class
from. She's incredibly nice. She was often throwing while our class
was going, and talked to me and helped me with stuff quite a bit. It'd
be an honor to study with her.
One nice thing about the amount that I'll have to throw to learn: A
good friend of mine is getting married in October. It's an outdoor
wedding. I told her that since I'm going to be throwing so many things
just to practice, I'll take the ones that look nice and give them to
her for her wedding. I've never really wanted to sell pottery- I
really only want to trade and give it away, so this is a great
practice opportunity. She's going to have an outdoor isle, so I told
her I'd try to make 100 or so vases (or something- she's happy not
knowing what) so that she can put flowers along the isle- I said I'd
give her about 10% of what I practice throwing, and I estimate 100 at
the minimum in time for the wedding (rest'll go to reclaim). I'm also
going to make 20-30 candle holders for tables and some slabbed leaf
bowls (the latter I need no practice with). Wow! How's that for
incentive to practice! The opportunity to make so much stuff with an
actual purpose! Instead of going into reclaim or on my growing ware
shelf. This is so exciting!
My friend asked me what she was going to do with all this stuff I
make. I said: "Give it to guests, give it to strangers, throw it
against the wall and smash it into pieces. Hell, I don't care- it's
only clay." I'm so happy.
Thanks again all! I'll leave you alone for a bit while I practice on
the next 1000 cylinders or so. :-)
-J
"There are no pots, there is only clay." -me
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