2016-07-17 - Sunday - Busy day

Sunday was a busy day at Clayworks.

The Young Visionaries of the Bechtler Museum had a Muddy Fun class.

Karen is making a cool sculpture of the city.

Ju-Ian drew a caricature of Greg on the white board.

I made a new pot with spikes.

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Monday - San Diego Dinner Cruise

Monday evening saw us on a dinner cruise in San Diego Bay on the California Spirit yacht.  It has two decks of dining rooms and one on top for observation.  There was a bar on each deck and a "casino" on the middle deck with games of chance that awarded the winner in door prize tickets.

The weather was windy and chilly so we didn't stay on the top deck very long, but there was a great opportunity for some skyline photos which I fully exploited.  Even with the great vistas it was very nice to get out of that cutting wind.

Once inside, the meal was good, the beer was cold and the people were friendly which made it a really nice evening.

After supper, between conversations I took some more photos off the stern which wasn't quite as exposed to the wind.

When it was over, Karen and I took the ~1/4 mile walk back to the Hilton and slept like logs in one of their very comfortable beds.

Leaving the dock on the upper deck.

Karen braves the wind.

Great skyline.

The 26-foot Unconditional Surrender sculpture.

The USS Midway museum.

View off the stern.

Sunset on the bay.

Interesting cloud formation.

I can't resist a nice sunset...

A water taxi pulled up along side
while the pilot showed his trainee
how to match speed for a passenger transfer.

The US Navy yard past the bridge to Coronado.

Lovely skies.

The main deck dining hall.

The San Diego side of the bridge to Coronado.

The Coronado side of the bridge to San Diego.

Military helicopters were constantly buzzing the bay.

The Hotel Del Coronado.

Moonlight on the bay.

Moonlight on the diners.

Our walk back to the Hilton.

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Tomoo Kitamura workshop

Tomoo Kitamura came to Clayworks on Saturday for a workshop. He uses a combination of throwing and coil building to create large sculptural pieces as well as throwing conventional forms of pottery. It was a great workshop. Tomoo's presentation was very informative and entertaining and he showed us some great methods.

Adrienne with some of Tomoo's work.

Throwing on the wheel.
He makes it look very easy.

Working on the large head sculpture.

Adding a mouth.

The audience is rapt.

The head grows taller.

While waiting for the head sculpture
to dry a bit it's back to the wheel.

Explaining throwing off the hump
and making yunomi.

Further along.

Anatomy of a yunomi.

Becky decides to combine
yoga with her pottery.

Saucer for the cup.

Stamping the ceremonial tea bowl with ash.

Trimming yunomi on a thrown chuck.

More trimming.

Closing the head sculpture.
As you can see, he has done some line carving on it.

After Tomoo left, the studio
was quickly put back to normal.

You can find my whole set of workshop photos here.

You can see more pictures of the workshop on Becky's blog here.

You can see even more photos from Ed here. Thanks, Ed!

Check them all out since they all offer a different view of the class.