Friday, February 29, 2008

Fish Bowl

My first semester of college, I took a pottery class.  I loved it so much!  I gave away most of the stuff I made and I've lost or broken the rest.  The bowl above, named Fish Bowl, is in my father's possession.  He actually uses it!  I was having fun with slips and colors.  I liked trying to get a nice marbled look to the colored patterns.


My favorite piece from the class was a small fluted vase (it's long gone ... ).  I'd been trying to make a fluted vase (similar to this shape) on the wheel for days, but I kept popping off the top every time I would pinch in the top to make the fluted edge.  The day I made this particular vase, the electricity went out in the building at the moment when the vase was perfect and saved me from ruining it.  How awesome is that?!
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Blue said ...
3/1/2008 2:48 AM
Gorgeous bowl!!

And, perhaps, you need Andrew to come and "interrupt" you at the critical moment with this pot, too?!

(OK, now I am picturing an impromptu Ghost reenactment ;) *slaps her own forehead*)

xoxo


Kuky said ...
3/1/2008 4:18 AM
That's very cool. I've never tried pottery. But Alan did in high school and we still have two of the vases he made.


andrea said ...
3/1/2008 8:49 AM
i love ceramics too, ever since i started throwing on the wheel 8 years ago.

when im not taking grad classes at penn i sign up for pottery at the university city arts league. you should check it out if you haven't yet.


Blaize said ...
3/1/2008 2:55 PM
Artistic Intervention through Power Outages. It sounds like some happening from the Japanese post-war Experimental Workshop/Jikken Kobo.

The bowl is beautiful.


Sonya said ...
3/1/2008 3:04 PM
I love the glazing - it looks like a cake!


Dawn Elizableth said ...
3/1/2008 6:49 PM
I love the glazes you used. Do you remember what kind they are? Sometimes divine intervention is a good thing!


futuregirl said ...
3/1/2008 6:56 PM
Goodness, me, Dawn Elizabeth, that was 17 years ago! I wish I knew, too. I'd love to get my hands back into some clay. I'm going to look into the classes Andrea mentioned. :)


Marietta said ...
3/1/2008 8:28 PM
so the pottery wheel and i never got along - i mean never ever!
and so cool that he still has it!

 
est said ...
3/2/2008 11:54 PM
oh my! love the fishes and the 'blue-coloring' effect!


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