Good Morning Mudslingers, it has started to chill down a bit here and as I type this with cold fingers, I think that t-shirt only mornings are now a thing of the past.
I haven’t actually been in the studio to make any work of substance this week, as my timetable has been full of meetings and admin to do with the Australian Ceramics Triennale 2018 which the Tasmanian Ceramics Association are hosting here in Hobart in four years time. I try and keep my online lives very separate but sometimes I wear all three hats at once and today looks like it is going to be one of those days.
Yesterday we had a fabulous day at the TCA studio in Glenorchy with a making day in preparation for a pit and raku firings later on in the year. Out of sixteen participants in our day of muddy fun, there were six new faces which is fabulous. The Tasmanian Ceramics Association is in a transitional phase at the moment, as older members retire from a ceramic life and new people are discovering the medium of clay for the first time. It is a lovely time to be involved with the association as the possibilities of world domination via clay are just endlessly wonderful.
I will have photos of the clay day once a friend emails them to me, then I will post them up onto the TCA website and link back here.
I am trying to make some ocarinas. A friend loaned me her Ocarina and so using it as a guide I set about making some of my own. I left the ocarinas to harden to leather hard so that I could make the musical holes without ruining the shape and forgot about them. Now they are too dry to work with and so back to square one I go. I have since googled a tutorial or two on Ocarinas and I am looking forward to making some more today, or maybe tomorrow. With this image you get the gist of what I am trying to do.
I have been S.L.O.W.L.Y so so slowly, uploading more images of the work I have for sale to my ceramic shop. It is a process, but with my daughter Veronica “vigorously encouraging” me, I am actually writing descriptions about the work rather than just saying cup or spoon. I really think that as Veronica is the WRITER in the family I should employ her to write all the flowery descriptions for me and I could then pay her in pots.
I like this quote. I think it is true. I live inside my head and will forget to eat proper meals, happily existing on toasted cheese sandwiches or dumpling soup and whatever fruit is in the fruit bowl. As soon as I have left a room I have forgotten whatever I was doing in that room and it is not uncommon for me to come back and be surprised by the half finished job I had wandered away from. Case in point is the Ocarinas, I had totally forgotten about them, until I saw them all dry and lonely on the table. The Spouse gets very frustrated with my strong chaos gene, but he is finally realising after 27 years together that I am not really here at all, I am elsewhere in my head.
Here is the link up, can you please remember to add a link back to me in your ceramic post.
Add your name and URL to the Mr Linky below.
Using the “Sunday Ceramics” title and photo I provided is OPTIONAL it is up to you.
Then PLEASE
Link back here to me.
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I am not a potter and the quote is true of me. And rather a lot of other people I care about.
Love those vessels – cups? vases? Beautiful anyway.
they are cups EC, the large ones are 350 mls then I go down to 250 ml and 150 ml, I use them instead of glassware 🙂
I missed the last Triennale and I believe the next one is in Canberra then the following Tassie in 2018 – woot woot. better get my planning hat on and start saving my pennies – or selling some work.
Yes, Elaine, start saving 🙂 if we could get a group together we could rent a house for the time the Triennale is on in Canberra. The dates and theme were announce just this week, The Theme is “Stepping Up and the dates are Wednesday 8 July to Saturday 11 July 2015. Or can you recommend a good hotel, that is cheap and close to the ANU? I do not know Canberra at all.
We are close to finalising the dates for ours in 2018 it will be in July 2018 but we are not sure of the exact days as yet.
raku firings??
Your Ocarinas look like movie alien heads…..
I’m not a potter, I’m just potty.
Here is a link to a youtube clip that explains Raku, River and I am trying to make skull ocarinas so YAY I am pleased they look recognisable
http://youtu.be/8BHsYnpQ1FY
Interesting times coming up for you- with rewarding processes and discovery- and then good company – have fun
Thanks Krista 🙂
That stuff looks gorgeous!
Thanks for the link.
My pleasure
Great minds and all that! As I said in my post FROM MUD TO MUSIC by Barry Hall is a great resource for making musical instruments. I like the idea of descriptions of work, rather than a few words. And that quite deserves a lot of publicity!
The Triennale sounds wonderful! Wish I weren’t on the other side of the world; I’d be there in a minute!
Happy Fall!
I looked at that book a few years ago but the shipping to Australia was expensive, I might go and see if I can find a digital copy. I am working on making my descriptions, descriptive *groans* 🙂
I’ve often thought of trying to make those but never quite got to it so I’ll be interested to see your results. The story of my life, always trailing behind and then running to catch up.. glad the link is still open for me 🙂
I don’t see it as running to catch up Anna, I see it as me reminding you of projects you had forgotten about 🙂
ha ha thanks Kim