Mothers Day. I throw them basically and let them modify them to suit themselves- love the part where I center and then , with my hands covered in slip, I shake hands with each one and say "WELCOME TO THE CLAY CLUB!" Love their reactions. Told them about Axel Ebring from Upsala Sweden who came here and made pots out oif the local gumbo clay and made history with his hands...showed them his photo..and that he left his money for the "crippled children" in town. Touching story- Axel in an un-marked grave.Am now glazing serving bowls and getting ready for an"Artists Walk"tour of studios on the weekend.
cleaning out the studio so it looks good and is safe......
3 comments:
Wow, looks great! Wish you luck this weekend. Hope yo'll get lots of visitors.
Maybe even a few who want to learn pottry.
Monique
That must have felt rewarding. I make ceramics with the my kid's class too. They love it so much! How did the kids do at the wheel?
it takes too long to teach them how to "center", so I do that, and I open it up to the approximate shape and then shake their hands with muuddy slippery clay and say "welcome to the clay club"
They finish it off the way they want ( I hope) and then I have to keep track of whose is whose... without dropping them spmewhere in the rest of the process...!
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