pot #52

Potter's Lunch at the Nerman Museum, JuCo with Carolyn, Nancy and Christy. Yummy.
But...onto the pottery. This is a small bowl by Anne Mulvihill of Kansas City and the Barbershop Gallery (www.barbershopgallery.org)
She also teaches at KC Clay Guild one evening a week.
This piece is eiether made of porcelain (it's really white on the bottom), carved and glazed...or maybe the other way around??? It is 2.25 x 5.25 x 5.25". Anne has signed it on the bottom with her last name.
I love this piece and I love Anne's work. She is one of my local pottery heroes. I will be reviewing another piece of hers in the upcoming weeks.

pot #50

Well...the second part of today's blog has to be about the piece I bought from Steven at his KC Clay Guild workshop yesterday. It is a 'yunomi'. What is the greatest thing about this piece is that I know *how* he made it...(wondering if I can apply a little of the technique of 'stretching' to my handbuilt slab work???)
This piece has been thrown, stretched and altered, thrown again, slipped, ribbed, slipped again, ribbed, trimmed, dried, glazed and single fired to ^6, electric.
*whewwwwwwwwwww*
By Steven's own admission, there are multiple glazes...sometimes up to seven...on each pot and I guess this one is no exception.
I am drinking coffee from it as I write this entry. Yummy.

*not* pot #50

I will start by reviewing the last weekend...clay, clay, clay.

The KC Clay Guild Teabowl National 2011 opening was this last Friday, June 10 and the Steven Hill workshop at KCCG was Saturday, June 11. I feel both were successful.

I haven't any pix of the reception (I forgot my camera), but I have a few of the workshop. I will post a few here, but will put the giant's share on KCCG Facebook page in 'photos'.

This is a photo of Steven pulling on the lip so that it will slump just a bit and change the shape...getting it ready to apply the spout and handle.

He seems so thorough and every step seems thought through. He knows his work and his techniques.

Thanks Steven!

pot #37

Wish the picture was better...
This piece is by Jamie Johnson. She used to live in KC and was a member of KC Clay Guild. She has mooved several times...and I think she is in Austin, Texas. Before she moved we traded artwork...she wanted a BoneGuy Teabpot and I wanted one of these>>>

This is a stoneware tree set on a ceramic base. It is all attached to a particle board base. There is a watercolor attached to the board behind the tree. I have placed a tiny, tiny vase by the same Jamie Johnson in the knot hole at the bottom of the tree. I have also placed bird eggs beneath the tree. It is one of my favorite pieces and it hangs in my home studio.

The board is 15/5' x 8" and the tree is 7.5" tall. The tree is glazed, the base is stained and apapears waxed. The tiny pot isabout 1" tall and is glazed in Turquoise Oribe and a Copper Red.

Pot #14

The piece you see in this photo was created by Jim Sandefur. He resides in Georgia. His web address is: www.jimsandefur.com/home.html.

I donated a purchase prize at the first KC Clay Guild Teabowl National last year and this is what I chose.

It comes in two pieces.

The base is 1.5 x 2 x 2". It is made of porcelain, unglazed, rough formed to hold the teabowl.

The 'teabowl' is 4.25 x 3.5 x 3.5". It is also made of porcelain. It is glazed inside onlyand it looks like a clear glaze. This piece was thrown. I queston whether it was thrown from widest pot to the tip (upside-down) or from the smallest point to the mouth. Jim's website states that after his 'sabbatical' he began firing in a friend's anagama kiln. Is this a wood fired piece???

Anyone? Jim?

day 28...another post!!

go to the KC CLAY GUILD!

new show by Susan Kemp!

day 19...a new year...humphf

Haven't really done much in the clay world at my house. Getting blase' about clay again....humphf!
The studio is too dog-gone cold. Even the space heaters haven't been helping. It is way to cold to go and stain or glaze in the basement as well. Twenty or below...ya just can't warm up an older outbuilding...(dreaming of a new studio...maybe next summer!!!)

I *have* done quite a bit for KC Clay Guild lately. I/we have organized a painting weekend and the place looks fabu. We are mapping out a consignment/retail area behind the desk, bought display shelves and painted some shelves.
We have purchased new ware shelves for the handbuilding room and moved furniture about. Dale is also installing the 'new' sink near the front rooms. We are going to install a better system of clay sludge collection, too.

I need to go down to the donjon to stain a piece for KCAC (Kansas City Artists Coalition) today. It is 4:30 and I need to leave for rowing at 5:15...maybe I can get this done.
Here I goooooooooooooo.

day 6. what shall I make today?

wednesday, august 12
gotta get ready for the board meeting at KCCG tonight.

• National show
• new Resident introductions
• some class re-structuring...modeled on Northern Clay....what else?

I need to get ready for Hallowe'en & Xmas at Eclectics: Boneguys, Mr. Claus (bodies and heads), elves, reindeer, ornaments, etc...even cards with plastic sleeve thingees.