Sunday, January 28, 2018

Pitching Dishes

Okay, so I was throwing pots. Isn't that the same thing? (These are from Thursday night's class.)

This afternoon went back to the Arts Center and took advantage of open studio. I practiced making cylinders again. This something I haven't done previous. I cheated and made bowls without doing cylinders.

Today though, I practiced. I didn't save the first four or five cylinders. They were twisted and so got tired and collapsed before I could turn them into anything functional.

When I had used up all my reclaimed studio clay in practice, and it was too wet to play with, I set it aside and took out a better lump of clay. When I had fashioned a decent sized cylinder (the one pictured here), I pulled it out into a bowl. Not too bad for a few hours work. The say "practice makes perfect," so I'm practicing and seeing the finished results improve. Maybe this time I'll have a few bowls worth giving as gifts, or at least be on my way there.

It's a small world, you know. I liked my instructor's Facebook page (here) and several days later another pottery page showed up as a suggestion in my newsfeed. Sometimes those ad like things get a little annoying, but I did a double-take this time. There on the page was the name of my oldest daughter's one time best friend and birthday buddy. Hannah had moved away years ago when she was just eight years old and we'd lost track of her completely, yet there she was on Facebook. We had no Facebook connections save my pottery teacher, who at one time had "liked" her page, partly because of the similarity to her own. (Isn't that cool?)

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  1. ...now this looks like fun!

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    1. It is a lot of fun once you get the hang of it.
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  2. I remember doing pottery like this one year in a home ec class in school. I loved it! I am so glad that you were able to locate your daughter's friend. How cool is that!

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    1. Finding Hannah was so fun. Now we just need to take a drive and see her and her work in person.
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  3. I took a wheel thrown pottery class in college. I never got very good at it, but it was only a semester. Perhaps if I had done it longer...I could have been amazing.

    I remember one of the math professors coming down to work in the studio. It was his hobby and he was really good.

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    1. I love it. It's a little pricey, but right now it's worth the investment.
      Maybe you should take a class too.
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