2015-02-15 - Sunday - Vases and VSVs

Sunday I carved another vase, threw a foot on the last one, and made eighteen VSVs (Very Small Vessels) or weed pots. It's been a while since I made VSVs and I throw them "off the hump". I would have had twenty, but I cut the bottom out of one taking it off the hump and ripped the last one. The way I choose to look at it, at ninety percent I'm doing better than ever.

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2015-02-14 - Saturday - Vases and dinner

Saturday I carved three vases and threw a foot on another one. After that I had to get home and change since we were meeting our friends for our long-delayed Christmas get-together. I know, it's Valentine's Day, but we're all so busy nowadays it's hard to schedule these things.

Vase carving.

Better view of all sides.

Front one is upright without an added foot while
the back one is upside down with a new foot.

Lisa, Tom, Karen, Pam, Chip, and me.
Tom does not normally smile like that, he's just not right.

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2015-02-10 - Tuesday - New vases

Tuesday night I threw some new vase forms. After these firm up I will flip them over and throw substantial feet on the bottom of them. After that sets up a while I will carve designs into the sides. This all hinges on things going well, so we'll see if it works out.

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2009-06-04 Thursday Painting Pots

Thursday night I was back at Clayworks painting earthenware pots. I am trying different scenes, but most of it is rather naive, primitive, or juvenile looking. Every once in a while I am really pleased with one or two, but I have quite a ways to go to bring up the average. Not having done any painting for thirty years has taken it's toll on my admittedly minor skills. I'll keep practicing. Onward and upward.

Painting, painting, painting.

Last of the three pitchers-turned-vases.

2009-06-03 Wednesday Clayworks

Tonight I tried to clean off my shelf of all the work in process. Tomorrow I will start taking other things home since we have to vacate our shelves for an update. I assembled another vase and added small "ear" handles to it. It is resting comfortably in the recovery area of my shelf. In the meantime, I found my largest pot (26"), my two thin-walled pots, the two vases I made on Sunday, my earthenware salt pigs, some mugs, a small flower vase, and two plates. Whew!

I also found four pots in the back that were bisqued in 1999 and 2000. I guess it's time to glaze them --maybe.

I almost filled up a whole greenware shelf.

2009-05-31 Sunday Clayworks

Sunday I stopped by Clayworks and put some of (what were once) my pitchers together. The tops got too dry to pull a spout on so they are now vases. You can see the last one in the back that hasn't been assembled yet. Next came the decisions on handles --sometimes that can be painful. After assembling them I covered them and put them back on the shelf to even out the moisture.

What once were pitchers are now vases.