Getting ready for Watershed on Sunday

Looking forward to my 1st session at Watershed this weekend. It is the Volunteer session that lasts 5 days

You work 6 hours and get studio time while you are there. They give free room and board.

I will take a bag of clay with me and my tools and check this place out. Tomorrow I will make a dozen loaves of bread to take up and share. I know I can make bread I am still working on making pots.

Attached is a few photos of a perfectly good pot I let fall to the ground I have since repaired it and will make another soon.

Using underglaze

So I etched into the clay body an image that I got from The Big Island

I think this will be a nice touch and plan on doing it in various colors

Baskets

So I have had a month of basket sessions where I go for a few hours on Fridays and with a group of nice people I sit around and weave reed into a basket

The 1st one pictured today took mr 3 weeks to complete and I did all the work during the session.

I will probably bring the next project home or to the studio while i work on the it which should get it done quicker. Basket time like pottery time fly s by and so far so good

enjoy the pictures and then we will talk underglaze

New cups Gorilla mugs

I had a great week made a dozen pots on Monday in a newer shape with the intent of making handles for all of them 2 ended up being bottles .

Tuesday I made a couple of nice mugs at the Currier and put handles on the previous 2

On Wednesday we were off from class at The MFA so I made my stencil for the Gorilla and put that on my wet mugs with colored slip. I was very pleased with the results. On Thursday I trimmed them and made handles with my handle tool. Yesterday I put together my griffon grip and trimmed the bottles and carved them.

Pop overs

to be glazed

Watershed