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Mar. 25th, 2011 05:18 pmPottery class was interesting last night. When the teacher went to buy her usual clay for the class back when we started, they were out and not expecting it for several weeks so she went with their suggested alternative which they assured her would be fine. Twas not. The clay did not play nicely with her glazes and the pieces I glazed last week broke, cracked and have glaze chipping off of them. Not good. She felt horrible about it.
(pictures here: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=92356&id=1646136997&l=3afc06cac1 )
The good news is that I have five pieces made in that clay that hadn't been fired yet and which we can use different glazes on and will be fine and we started using a new clay last week which won't have the same issues. We have two more weeks, she says we'll throw next week and have a glaze-a-thon the following week though I'm not sure when we'll glaze what we do next week.
Today I found myself talking to my mom about cleaning out the garage behind their house and buying a wheel. The garage had been divided into a large woodworking studio for my granddad and a much smaller ceramics studio for my granny. She hasn't worked out there in a long time but has two kilns (she did poured molds). It also has the advantage of being somewhere my kids could be safely entertained and play while I work as opposed to the 'by the month' studio I was considering joining (and may still). The downside is that I have to buy a wheel (easily $1000) and supplies and I won't have people around to help me learn like I would at the studio. It would all be self directed learning (books, internet etc) which might be ok if I can supplement with classes.
(pictures here: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=92356&id=1646136997&l=3afc06cac1 )
The good news is that I have five pieces made in that clay that hadn't been fired yet and which we can use different glazes on and will be fine and we started using a new clay last week which won't have the same issues. We have two more weeks, she says we'll throw next week and have a glaze-a-thon the following week though I'm not sure when we'll glaze what we do next week.
Today I found myself talking to my mom about cleaning out the garage behind their house and buying a wheel. The garage had been divided into a large woodworking studio for my granddad and a much smaller ceramics studio for my granny. She hasn't worked out there in a long time but has two kilns (she did poured molds). It also has the advantage of being somewhere my kids could be safely entertained and play while I work as opposed to the 'by the month' studio I was considering joining (and may still). The downside is that I have to buy a wheel (easily $1000) and supplies and I won't have people around to help me learn like I would at the studio. It would all be self directed learning (books, internet etc) which might be ok if I can supplement with classes.
