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Weekend pottery
Nov. 5th, 2006 09:42 amI am spending this weekend working on modern pottery. I have three Holiday sales planned. If they are like the last year: one will be very good, one will be OK. I have doubts about the third and new one that is scheduled but my guild decided to do it as a group, so I will participate with them.
I have been considering a new surface decoration line and am going to start trying it out on a few things I‘ve prepared. It’s not so much a good idea to do experimenting right before sales venues, but I have quite a bit of work in stock, so even if the experiments don’t work out it won’t set me back.
I am still enthralled with the Byzantine decorations I started several years ago for a KAS single entry. I am going to mix the design style with modern bright glaze colors, and change the designs some too. I think they have real possibilities and even if they don’t I will still have fun with them. It’s supposed to rain all this coming week, so they will probably be safe from freezes.
I would like to do more pit fired pottery too, they sold fairly well at a mundane Art Fair I went to this summer. Pitfiring is definitely seasonal craft though and they have to wait for the summer for firing.
The thing about selling pottery is that it creates space so I have to do more work :-), extra money is nice, but the empty spaces I have to fill is better yet. There is a Chinese proverb that says the value of the pot is in the empty space the pot contains. For potters we also value the empty space created by the absent pot.
I have been considering a new surface decoration line and am going to start trying it out on a few things I‘ve prepared. It’s not so much a good idea to do experimenting right before sales venues, but I have quite a bit of work in stock, so even if the experiments don’t work out it won’t set me back.
I am still enthralled with the Byzantine decorations I started several years ago for a KAS single entry. I am going to mix the design style with modern bright glaze colors, and change the designs some too. I think they have real possibilities and even if they don’t I will still have fun with them. It’s supposed to rain all this coming week, so they will probably be safe from freezes.
I would like to do more pit fired pottery too, they sold fairly well at a mundane Art Fair I went to this summer. Pitfiring is definitely seasonal craft though and they have to wait for the summer for firing.
The thing about selling pottery is that it creates space so I have to do more work :-), extra money is nice, but the empty spaces I have to fill is better yet. There is a Chinese proverb that says the value of the pot is in the empty space the pot contains. For potters we also value the empty space created by the absent pot.
