April 2012
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Plates
I thought that if I was going to make a few plates I should decide what style I liked best! From what I can tell, there’s three general types of thrown plates (correct me if there’s more?) -
A plate with a flat lip (still defined, but not much of an angle up), like this plate...
When we tell stories about creativity, we tend to leave out this phase. We...
– The Importance of Frustration in the Creative Process, (via wilwheaton)
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A busy few days!
I feel like I’m getting my fill of pottery this weekend! First I went into the studio Saturday and started making a sake bottle (picture to follow) and I made two tea cups to go with my little tea pot.
Today I went to the glaze studio (AT 8:45 ON A SUNDAY MORNING I MIGHT ADD) and joined all the other members of the pottery club there. We had a type of spring cleaning for glazes; all the...
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Altered Sake Bottle and cups →
Today I’m going to attempt to make this for a friend who always buys us good, local sake to try. This is a good step-by-step on how to alter a sake bottle. This will be my first try, haha, so we’ll see what happens.