Marta Matray Gloviczki on sat 1 oct 05
dear jennifer,
thank you for your generous offer!
arent you lucky to live so far away
from me that i cannot jump on it? :)
nobody tried to teach me the hands-on
method you are describing.
...if you all end up on my doorstep,
i am ready to be squished!!!...
cheers, marta
Jennifer Boyer wrote:
>Oh MARTA! So many of your clay buds are itching to teach you to throw!
>But we live all over the place and for me anyway, teaching throwing
>means hands on your hands, so you feel the pressure, squished as you
>are between my hands and the clay....also a lot of it is about bracing.
>No flapping elbows: everything clamped down..sheesh. We'll all end up
>on your door step....ready to squish you....
>Jennifer
Marta wrote:
>>>
>> its too bad that you are not my teacher, tony!
>> i would make you many many swimmers...
>> i dont know how to throw, never learned it,
>> so, i decided that i wanna learn it now.
>> i signed up for pottery class at the community college
>> here in town, and i have 2 classes per week, plus
>> i stop there for an hour or two every day to practice it.
>> its fricking hard! nobody ever told me that!
>> i still cannot really center the clay, but its
>> still the first month, right? i am getting a little
>> better tho... the swimmers are still very heavy, but
>> at least some are good looking!
>> maybe i just have to save them for saltfiring???
>> he-he.
tony wrote:
>>>the first week at Sheridan i had them all make 20 2lb bowls for
homework for
me to see the next day. Nice to see 340 bowls laid out on the tables.
garbage pails were ready for their lesson on how to make an ugly pot go for
a swim.>>> (snip)
Weiland, Jeff on mon 3 oct 05
The hands-on is a great way to show how the touch/feel of throwing is
supposed to work. The big down side to it is when you have an adult
class of "older women" who want to keep singing the "Unchained Melody" -
too many movies!! Some of them scare me at times!!!
Jeff Weiland
Greenfield-Central High School
810 North Broadway
Greenfield, Indiana 46140
317-462-9211
jweiland@gcsc.k12.in.us
-----Original Message-----
From: Clayart [mailto:CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG] On Behalf Of Marta
Matray Gloviczki
Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2005 9:43 AM
To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
Subject: hands-on throwing
dear jennifer,
thank you for your generous offer!
arent you lucky to live so far away
from me that i cannot jump on it? :)
nobody tried to teach me the hands-on
method you are describing.
...if you all end up on my doorstep,
i am ready to be squished!!!...
cheers, marta
Jennifer Boyer wrote:
>Oh MARTA! So many of your clay buds are itching to teach you to throw!
>But we live all over the place and for me anyway, teaching throwing=20
>means hands on your hands, so you feel the pressure, squished as you=20
>are between my hands and the clay....also a lot of it is about bracing.
>No flapping elbows: everything clamped down..sheesh. We'll all end up=20
>on your door step....ready to squish you....
>Jennifer
Marta wrote:
>>>
>> its too bad that you are not my teacher, tony!
>> i would make you many many swimmers...
>> i dont know how to throw, never learned it, so, i decided that i=20
>> wanna learn it now.
>> i signed up for pottery class at the community college here in town,=20
>> and i have 2 classes per week, plus i stop there for an hour or two=20
>> every day to practice it.
>> its fricking hard! nobody ever told me that!
>> i still cannot really center the clay, but its still the first month,
>> right? i am getting a little better tho... the swimmers are still=20
>> very heavy, but at least some are good looking!
>> maybe i just have to save them for saltfiring???
>> he-he.
tony wrote:
>>>the first week at Sheridan i had them all make 20 2lb bowls for
homework for
me to see the next day. Nice to see 340 bowls laid out on the tables.
garbage pails were ready for their lesson on how to make an ugly pot go
for a swim.>>> (snip)
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