primalmommy on sat 5 feb 05
First: Thanks to those sending ideas about ^6 slip. I have been digging
out my books. I suspect a lot of the equation is having a nice
translucent or transparent glaze to go over them.
I keep reading the glaze percentage posts to the other Kelly by accident
-- good luck, Kelly! Folks here are pretty helpful.
Post workshop: Before I left for Clennells/Lansing, I promised my
students that I would bring back some new techniques and pass them on.
"It's all research and development!" I proclaimed. "In fact, you guys
should probably pay for my workshops!" (To which one wry student
remarked, "I think we do".. (well, actually, yeah, you do.)
So back to class after the workshop and I showed them the quarter trick,
and throwing in sections. I had tried it before but it always went
wobbly. Now I can do it!
They loved the line, "Celebrate the join!" and got downright punchy --
celebrating the wobble, celebrating the slop bucket...
I threw one of Tony's enormous Roman Bowls. I mean, this thing is BIG.
You could give babies a bath in it. Step by step I copied his lines, the
split rim, the four "corners", handles with a backbone. They were VERY
impressed.
I got some comments today, as well, as I was trimming the foot during
the Toledo Potters Guild's raku workshop. "Wow, you made that?" and my
answer was, "It's Tony Clennell's bowl, I just copied it."
I was so proud of making it but it's NOT MY BOWL. And worse yet, it's
not Tony's bowl either, droolishly perfect with shino or flashing and
handles so carefully loose and slick you could lick them. It's just a
big old copy, which I will have to glaze somehow (I don't spray, too big
to dip... no clue.) Then fire at ^6 ox. So much for "nice little places
for the ash to settle"..
I know, I'm not allowed to sigh that it's not high fire reduction. And
I'm supposed to take his technique and "make it my own". Well, my own
are dorky and inelegant. So there. ;0P
I made a ewer kinda sorta like Sheila's, but whatever is unique about it
is just the part where I failed to do it like she did. In a way, it's
the nicest thing I have made in a long time. But I would never send a
photo of it anywhere or take it to a gallery because it's not mine. I
had this problem big time after I got excited about Dannon's
pot-in-a-pot forms.
I am kind of getting a kick out of the contrast -- my tiny teapots
sitting next to the "Texas Sugar Bowl" and gihundus jug. Like one of
those people with a Great Dane and a Chihuahua.
OK, whine over. I made some pathetic post about mugs and mel sent me
one. I figure if I whine about being limited by ^6 oxidation somebody
will show up in my back yard one night and build me a wood kiln.
I'll leave the gate unlatched.
Yours
Kelly in Ohio
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dannon rhudy on sun 6 feb 05
Kelly said: . And
> I'm supposed to take his technique and "make it my own". Well, my own
> are dorky and inelegant........
..... figure if I whine about being limited by ^6 oxidation somebody will
show up in my back yard one night and build me a wood kiln........
Kelly, I know you already know this, we all do, but it is
worth repeating: we all copy, at first. One way or another
our work becomes our own, but it is spotty at first. "At
first" for potters is long, and it comes and goes, and each
new thing is an "at first". Means we're constantly learning,
and god knows we need to because there is endless stuff
to learn. Just keep on, all will come clear. It will take a
long time. So what? The potter's journey is long, and
so far none have lived long enough to quite finish it. Good,
eh?
regards
Dannon Rhudy
URL Krueger on sun 6 feb 05
On Saturday 05 February 2005 07:51 pm, primalmommy wrote:
> I figure if I whine about being limited by ^6 oxidation
> somebody will show up in my back yard one night and build
> me a wood kiln.
Kelly,
Someone with your skills wouldn't find it too much trouble
to build one big enough for your teapots; 1, 2 bricks at
most. Could fire it with toothpicks.
Or, you could build a small beehive with mud from the
foundation trench from your addition. Accentuate your
claim to being primal.
--
Earl K...
Bothell WA, USA
Volunteer U.S. Marine Corps 1967-1971
A black week, indeed !
Will the 3 yr old grandson ever see his father again?
clennell on sun 6 feb 05
Sour Cherry Pottery
> First: Thanks to those sending ideas about ^6 slip. I have been digging
> out my books. I suspect a lot of the equation is having a nice
> translucent or transparent glaze to go over them.
>
> I keep reading the glaze percentage posts to the other Kelly by accident
> -- good luck, Kelly! Folks here are pretty helpful.
>
> Post workshop: Before I left for Clennells/Lansing, I promised my
> students that I would bring back some new techniques and pass them on.
> "It's all research and development!" I proclaimed. "In fact, you guys
> should probably pay for my workshops!" (To which one wry student
> remarked, "I think we do".. (well, actually, yeah, you do.)
>
> So back to class after the workshop and I showed them the quarter trick,
> and throwing in sections. I had tried it before but it always went
> wobbly. Now I can do it!
>
> They loved the line, "Celebrate the join!" and got downright punchy --
> celebrating the wobble, celebrating the slop bucket...
>
> I threw one of Tony's enormous Roman Bowls. I mean, this thing is BIG.
> You could give babies a bath in it. Step by step I copied his lines, the
> split rim, the four "corners", handles with a backbone. They were VERY
> impressed.
>
> I got some comments today, as well, as I was trimming the foot during
> the Toledo Potters Guild's raku workshop. "Wow, you made that?" and my
> answer was, "It's Tony Clennell's bowl, I just copied it."
Kelly: I think it wise to copy my bowl. Get it down right and then when
the skill becomes second nature then your mind will be free of the worry of
technique and your own creativity will take over. Those things I called
runts and you called prunts i think would offer a very nice medieval English
look to that bowl- it would then be unmistakenly yours! Referencing is our
new kick. Look for that bowl in books and you will find it. I saw the shape
in a book on Cypress and squared it and split the rim to make it mine. Now I
think if I rounded the form and the rim it might be African.
What do we call charging for a whoopie- "Value added". It is the only
difference between a pro and a newbie- details adding value.
Your big pots will draw attentin to your tiny ones. Otherwise they will get
lost in the shuffle.
good pots to you.
Tony
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