question on PVC pipe...

[ScrubbyHubby]

No, I just sell here and there. A good friend of mine is an artist and ceramist, if that is the correct word, and he has a studio show each year so I have shown some of my pieces there. I just work out of my garage so I don't make as much as I would like to. I got some tiles once from a tile factory here and put a glaze on them and fired them. Didn't know anything about high fire and low fire. The glaze was high fire and the tiles were a low fire clay. It didn't work out well.

 

[gallerygirl]

We all make mistakes in the beginning. Isn't it such a joy to make something that can never be replicated? k

 

[ScrubbyHubby]

My artist friend has a son who was into pottery, tiles and clay art work. We became good friends also. I made some things for him and was complaining about some trivial mistake that I had made in one of the pieces. He told me "Jim embrace the defects".
Jim

 

[gallerygirl]

I tell my pottery/clay students to keep all their pieces, especially the first pieces. Down the road, you come to enjoy them more than the pieces you do with experience under your belt.

 

[ScrubbyHubby]

Guess I haven't experienced that yet. I look at the pieces I made for David (my artist friends son) I think "Holy cow I sure made that wrong". But then I guess for a first time piece it is OK.
Jim

 

[gallerygirl]

There is no wrong in original creations. My main course of studies during college was Raku. The Japanese have a much different mindset about clay art. Study up on their ideas and their ware and it will make you see things differently I believe. :wink: Good luck and most of all, enjoy the process and the finished piece. k

 

[ScrubbyHubby]

Thank you. You do the same.