This semester Daniel decided to try the dark clay offered by our teacher June. It’s apparently really great to throw on the potters wheel. I kept with the white clay we’ve used from the start of our class. I made this decision partially because I didn’t like the way the dark clay felt and because […]
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Making paper was shockingly easier than I expected, the class was a lot of fun and my old friend Brandi was in the class (we met in quilt-making, she’s actually finished her quilt). To make paper you need some supplies that you might have around the house, or you might want to make yourself. You
I made a decision to made the largest piece I had attempted to that point. I started with a round base, and added 2″ strips of clay, pulling each planting spout on the layer as it was being attached below, you can see the layers of clay from the interior pictures above by the joining
One of the things I love about working with clay is that you never know how things will go, or I don’t. Each step can produce magic or dirt. With a great teacher like June and a partner with such talent like Daniel, I’m very lucky that I get more good stuff then crap, but
For this set of housewarming gift, Daniel made the bowls and cup on the pottery wheel and Ammi handled glaze. Our friend Myndi received 2 kitchen bowls, a mug, a cracked bowl for display, and a tiny display or dipping bowl. We also sent her 3 dinosaurs to leave around Chicago or on her patio.
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I made these bowls after I was feeling comfortable with the pottery wheel again. I was generally happy with their shape, but they are all really small. That worked out okay for the berry bowls, but It means a lot of small food portions if you try to eat from them. I’ve been working recently
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Many of my friends knit, in fact my wonderful friend Richard knitted my bridesmaids and myself beautiful shawls to wear. My second semester of pottery I decided to make my friends some knitting bowls to repay all the warm fuzzy things they make me. Luckily enough each and everyone of my bowls came out beautifully.
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This was one of the first things I painted after my divorce, I’m unsure how often I even thought about art during my early 20’s. This painting was done on the floor in a little apartment Daniel and I shared as roommates (at first). This piece gave me confidence that the light bright artist that
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