After what has been a very long hiatus, I finally got behind the pottery wheel yesterday and started working. I am busy making things to fill the oven for a long-overdue bisque firing. One order is for guests who bid and won three pieces of ceramic artwork during Gina DePalma's Cowgirl Cure Auction to benefit Ovarian Cancer Research. Two others are for a mixture of muesli bowls, plates, cups, and serving pieces.
People often tell me that they would love to learn how to use the pottery wheel. It is so intriguing. The reality is that the only way to learn how to throw pots well is practice and patience. It takes time and concentration. One must be able to clear one's mind. If your mind is too busy when you work on the pottery wheel, the piece will go off-center because you are not focused enough.
It takes a centered mind to throw a centered pot.
The next phase is cleaning the bottoms, removing any excess, and painting with engobe, which is a mixture of grog, quartz, a bit of clay, coloring oxides and water. Then they will dry for a couple of days and it will be time for the first firing, during which I will mix the glazes to prepare for the second firing.
7 comments:
Can't wait to try. We are in the countdown, now, for real. Less than TWO MONTHS.
Thinking warm thoughts and sending love.
They are going to be pretty, no that for sure! xo
Do you still have any of those pretty blue bowls left?
Can't wait to see what color glazes you will use for these.
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I said I would love to learn and understand all about practice and patience. It is like that when I do painting on Ceramics, which I have not done for a while, as nothing is there, nothing has come to mind, just cannot focus on it either, maybe one day it will come back :-)
Purple ???? and it will always be half full.... love ya
Such talent! Lovely, lovely creations.
Cameron
Patti, (yes patti is short that is her nick name from our college days) I would love to make you a purple glaze if I can figure it out....
Diva, I am getting things cleaned up already so you don't think I am a slob!!
Thanks meggie...
Ragazza, these are an order which is based on those blue and light green bowls. So they will have similar colors.
Anne, patience and relaxation is the true message of making pots...
Thank you Cameron... :)
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