clennell on tue 5 apr 05
Sour Cherry Pottery
> I know you're right but $ is $. When there's too much month at the end
> of the money, I'd make muffins all day if they'd sell.
>
> I couldn't do JUST those boring little pots, but: a) the discipline of
> throwing a like series is good for me, b) I don't want to get too fancy
> and compete with MY website pots. and c) you should see the fun I just
> had making four make-it-up-as-I-go, more-is-more, detail-heavy pots in
> the studio tonight for MY website. If those boring ones sell for what
> she hopes they will, I'm jacking my prices again ;0) I'm making a luxury
> item anyway.
Kelly: Davids advice about learning to minimize steps is sound. i just think
that tomorrows potters will not be the icons of my youth that threw a ton of
clay a day- Harry Davis, Issac Button and the flower pot boys of the rural
south. I think the pots of the new century will have to be sexy pots and not
the storage pots that I love so dearly. Wes sent me a very exciting post
about how pottery changed in the early 1900's, then again in the studio
pottery movement of Leach, the 70's and now what a guy with a treadle wheel
will do to keep at it in the decades to come. Can you post it Wes???? I lost
it.
Now you're going to have people flame you for saying production is boring-
not me. Sometimes i like to slip into a pie plate afternnoon and not have to
torture myself with new design, composite throwing and unfamiliar territory.
I liked Ep's idea of bottles and Mel those bowls of mine are absolutely
inpired by the leafs laying in the vineyards- if they see it that way, that
is the what i intended. Too bad that damn seagull flew overhead.
Cheers,
Tony
Tony and Sheila Clennell
Sour Cherry Pottery
4545 King Street
Beamsville, Ontario
CANADA L0R 1B1
http://www.sourcherrypottery.com
http://www.sourcherrypottery.com/current_news/news_letter.html
Wes Rolley on wed 6 apr 05
> Wes sent me a very exciting post
> about how pottery changed in the early 1900's, then again in the studio
> pottery movement of Leach, the 70's and now what a guy with a treadle w=
heel
> will do to keep at it in the decades to come. Can you post it Wes???? I=
lost
> it.
It must not have been very good, Tony, since neither of us kept a copy.=20
Maybe I was working with one of Artimator's indulgences in hand.
--=20
"I find I have a great lot to learn =E2=80=93 or unlearn. I seem to know =
far too=20
much and this knowledge obscures the really significant facts, but I am=20
getting on." -- Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Wesley C. Rolley
17211 Quail Court
Morgan Hill, CA 95037
(408)778-3024
http://www.refpub.com/
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