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Pottery and Pinguecula
About two months ago I tried my hand at the pottery wheel after not working with clay for nearly eight months. The next week my eye flared up. After a busy summer and fall at the wheel in 2013, my eye had given me trouble but had cleared up when I quit working with clay. Steroid eye drops helped during that season, but the flare-ups only went away after extended time away from the wheel. After having it flare up again at the end…
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2014
While I’d love to get all reflective about 2013 and wax eloquent on the coming year, my brain just isn’t going there. Here goes the Engineer’s version of the first blog post of the year. Engineers like lists and bullet points. Changes ahead this year: Adding a new class to my spring semester schedule Scaling back on the pottery hobby due to time constraints and other commitments The “baby” no longer naps Started a Facebook group for Raleigh growers to…
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Making a Bead Tree for the Kiln Part Two
I posted “Making a Bead Tree for the Kiln” back in March. It worked pretty wonderfully until my three year old broke it, twice over, by knocking it off the table and onto the garage floor. It is still usable, but with that long span between the remaining supports, the nichrome wire tends to sag. I decided to build a new one, and it’s currently waiting to be fired. One of the troubles with the last design was that it required loading…
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Footprint
My footprint is out of control. I’m not talking about this in the ecological sense, though I’m sure that simply being an American makes mine too large. I’m talking about the way I live in and expand in my house. We have tried to keep my hobbies and work contained. I work with clay in one quadrant of the garage. I garden within the perimeters of the fence and inside the brick boundaries. I keep my textbooks in the office with…
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This Friday’s Open Studio Event and October Updates
This Friday, October 2 from 7:30 to 9:30 pm, I’m hosting a little event at my house (see the FB event listing here). You are welcome to come shop for pottery and/or prints and place an order for personalized Christmas ornaments. I’ll be sure to have a bottle of red and something to munch on. October 10 and 24, I’m hosting a two part class at Gather. There is still time to register! Go here to register. I’m also running…
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Highlights and Review of the Last Kiln Firing
This past weekend I unloaded the kiln to find some gems. I have a new partnership with a seller from Glasgow and was trying out a few variations of orange for him to pair with my favorite, Indigo Float of Amaco’s Potter’s Choice cone 5/6 glazes. Since I was already paying for shipping, I picked out several Potter’s Choice glazes to test: Deep Sienna Speckle, Salt Buff, Temmoku, and Deep Firebrick. Amaco is great about testing and sharing glaze pairings,…
