Jeremy McLeod on tue 10 dec 02
Janet Kaiser wrote:
> No surprising, is it? A nice "safe" colour in these uncertain times...
>
And in some systems of chakra theory blue,
throat chakra, is about creativity and expression.
Lots of interesting ways to slice this banana...
(or should that be blueberry?)
Jeremy McLeod
ccpottery@BELLSOUTH.NET on tue 10 dec 02
The January issue of The Crafts Report Magazine contains their
annual forecast for Sales Trends in 2003.
What will make some of you crazy ... or happy ... is that BLUES
will be the BIG colors. Surprise, surprise ...right? Blue has
always been the HOT color in pottery but now more than ever.
For those of you who are flexible and wondering what to make
that will be a hot seller next year, this is the issue to buy.
Not only do they predict the colors people want, but also the
products and themes they will be looking for.
I don't mean to imply everyone should jump on the bandwagon, but
if you are at loose ends why not try something that will sell?
We are not all talented or gifted enough to be on the cutting
edge of setting trends, but we can adapt to them in our own
way.
This is the heart of making a living at pottery or any other
product ... make what people will want.
Chris Campbell - in North Carolina - finally we have heat and phones, but
still looking at a yard filled with fallen trees due to an ice storm.
Isn't it crazy ... after spending days cleaning up these pines we will
head out to BUY another cut tree to decorate inside the house!!
Chris
Chris Campbell Pottery, LLC
9417 Koupela Drive
Raleigh, North Carolina 27615-2233
Phone : 1-800-652-1008
fax : 919-676-2062
e-mail : ccpottery@bellsouth.net
web : www.wholesalecrafts.com
Lois Ruben Aronow on tue 10 dec 02
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 10:02:50 -0500, you wrote:
>The January issue of The Crafts Report Magazine contains their
>annual forecast for Sales Trends in 2003.
>
>What will make some of you crazy ... or happy ... is that BLUES
>will be the BIG colors. Surprise, surprise ...right? Blue has
>always been the HOT color in pottery but now more than ever.
Interesting. Metropolitan Home is predicting green and purple. And
in something I read recently (style section/nytimes?) said that the
new shade of Green for Fiesta WAre is one of their best sellers ever.
Go figure.
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Lois Ruben Aronow
gilois@bellatlantic.net
=46ine Craft Porcelain
http://www.loisaronow.com=20
Jonathan Kirkendall on tue 10 dec 02
I'd just add that at the last two sales I had, NONE of the blue bowls went
and I sold out of my green bowls! That's never happened.
I went to Teaism yesterday to drop off some pottery and noticed that their
entire collection of new Judith Weber teapots are purple and green!
Apparently she's been reading Metropolitan Home!
Jonathan in DC, mostly.
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Aronow
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To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
Subject: Re: Blue is the Hue for 2003
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 10:02:50 -0500, you wrote:
>The January issue of The Crafts Report Magazine contains their
>annual forecast for Sales Trends in 2003.
>
>What will make some of you crazy ... or happy ... is that BLUES
>will be the BIG colors. Surprise, surprise ...right? Blue has
>always been the HOT color in pottery but now more than ever.
Interesting. Metropolitan Home is predicting green and purple. And
in something I read recently (style section/nytimes?) said that the
new shade of Green for Fiesta WAre is one of their best sellers ever.
Go figure.
--------------------------------------------
Lois Ruben Aronow
gilois@bellatlantic.net
Fine Craft Porcelain
http://www.loisaronow.com
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Tony Ferguson on tue 10 dec 02
Chris,
Thanks for the information--I have finally naturally gravitated toward blue
in my work so maybe I will sell even more work this year because its what's
going to be in.
Did I hear you right, "This is the heart of making a living at pottery or
any other product ... make what people will want" Ouch.
Have you tried letting your work develop along its own continuum? How about
allowing it to reflect your expressiveness as an artist and attempt to let
your work be the best that it can be according to you? An attempt at
originality? Perhaps that's the beauty of being in clay: you can choose to
approach it as creating a product for other people's fancy and be a human
manufacturer, or infuse the work with something more than giving it a
"product" status--approaching it as an artist and a craftsperson.
Let me know how your blue sells and how you feel about your work. I have
found that great artists make art, regardless of the material, not product
and are not concerned with trends or what's in. I trend to think that
people gravitate toward work that possess a degree something original, a
presentation of an art form or expression in a new, inspiring, and
insightful way.
Thank you.
Tony Ferguson
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Subject: Blue is the Hue for 2003
> The January issue of The Crafts Report Magazine contains their
> annual forecast for Sales Trends in 2003.
>
> What will make some of you crazy ... or happy ... is that BLUES
> will be the BIG colors. Surprise, surprise ...right? Blue has
> always been the HOT color in pottery but now more than ever.
>
> For those of you who are flexible and wondering what to make
> that will be a hot seller next year, this is the issue to buy.
> Not only do they predict the colors people want, but also the
> products and themes they will be looking for.
>
> I don't mean to imply everyone should jump on the bandwagon, but
> if you are at loose ends why not try something that will sell?
> We are not all talented or gifted enough to be on the cutting
> edge of setting trends, but we can adapt to them in our own
> way.
>
> This is the heart of making a living at pottery or any other
> product ... make what people will want.
>
> Chris Campbell - in North Carolina - finally we have heat and phones, but
> still looking at a yard filled with fallen trees due to an ice storm.
> Isn't it crazy ... after spending days cleaning up these pines we will
> head out to BUY another cut tree to decorate inside the house!!
>
> Chris
> Chris Campbell Pottery, LLC
> 9417 Koupela Drive
> Raleigh, North Carolina 27615-2233
> Phone : 1-800-652-1008
> fax : 919-676-2062
> e-mail : ccpottery@bellsouth.net
> web : www.wholesalecrafts.com
>
>
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RPeckham@COOKSONELECTRONICS.COM on wed 11 dec 02
Yahoo!
I personally love blues, can't keep em off my pots. Even if it is a
little bit.
Probably came from my first potting experiences with Barbara Stone. Her
most reliable glaze was a kind of floating blue. When I think of pottery,
that's what I think of.
I try other hues, and like them, but always think a little hint of blue
would make it better, and usually reglaze it to add a splash here, and
there.
Some day I will probably shriek at the sight of blue, like the rest of
you, but not now.
Randy Peckham
Can't be a real potter 'cause I likes blue
David Hendley on wed 11 dec 02
> I don't mean to imply everyone should jump on the bandwagon, but
> if you are at loose ends why not try something that will sell?
> We are not all talented or gifted enough to be on the cutting
> edge of setting trends, but we can adapt to them in our own
I think this is bad advice, in both artistic and economic terms.
First of all, if you don't believe that you are "gifted", in the sense
that you have unique "gifts" that are worthy of being made
manifest in a concrete form, then it's time for you to hang it up
and find something to do that is more suited to your strengths.
This may sound egotistical, but art is about the artist. This doesn't
mean you can't work with a customer to accommodate a special
feature they would like in a commissioned piece. However,
abandoning what you do in an attempt to make something that
will sell is a dreary dead-end street.
In a purely practical sense, I, and many others, have discovered
that changing what we make in order to "cash in" on the next new
"hot trend" results not in raking in the cash, but in being stuck with
a pile of stuff that doesn't sell and we don't even like.
David Hendley
Maydelle, Texas
hendley@tyler.net
http://www.farmpots.com
Janet Kaiser on wed 11 dec 02
No surprising, is it? A nice "safe" colour in these uncertain times...
Sincerely
Janet Kaiser
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Fabienne Micheline Cassman on thu 12 dec 02
Sales trend or self-fulfilling prophecy?
Fabienne
At 10:02 AM 12/10/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>The January issue of The Crafts Report Magazine contains their
>annual forecast for Sales Trends in 2003.
>
>What will make some of you crazy ... or happy ... is that BLUES
>will be the BIG colors. Surprise, surprise ...right? Blue has
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