Tea Bowl
A friend on Facebook recently posted about counting glazes instead of counting sheep when sleep is allusive. I do the same type of thing but it doesn’t normally get me to sleep, it has the opposite effect. I’ll be laying there all warm and snugly with the Whiggle as ideas start popping into my head. Which of course makes me want to jump out of bed and rush to the studio to start working on these ideas. Of course the problem with pottery is that it requires patience. When I have an idea for a great glaze design I can’t just start doing it, often the correct piece needs to be made first. Sometimes it’s several pieces in a series. These pieces have to be thrown, trimmed, dried, and bisque fired before they will ever see the glaze. Please understand, I’m not complaining, I love the process of ceramics and the time it takes. I even love the fact that, unlike some other art forms, the results are not instant; pottery always has some nervous anticipation to it. Opening the kiln is like Christmas, and I’ll never complain about that joy even when it does mean you get something that you don’t want (think pink bunny pajamas). Pottery forces us to become patient. Patience is a virtue. It’s such a nice feeling to be a virtuous potter.
Right now I have several series ideas running through my head, they have started to take shape into the clay. I’m so excited to see the results and share them with you.
Awww
::Gets ready to return the pink bunny PJs that I got you for christmas::
(ROFL)
I do get what you mean tho–The way the Photo collages work out, I never am quite sure what the final result will be when I blend layers and fix colour except it probably won’t be what I was planning..
Speaking of which, are we FB friends yet? I cannot remember. If you want to be garyrith at yahoo dot com is me
I’d love to be FB friends with you. I’ll look for you. I’ve got a fan page that you might like:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Future-Relics-Gallery-Functional-Sculptural-Pottery-Ceramics/129847122672?v=app_4949752878&ref=sgm
Why not add yourself as a fan