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morgainaI love Spring, I love Spring, I love Spring. Makes me think that perhaps life is worth it after all. I have many pottery venues in the next two months, but I am not panicking to get things done because I have been working steadily throughout the winter. Although at the time I worked just to keep myself sane rather than thoughts of the future.
The week after Empty Bowls the Potter’s Guild is having a joint gallery show with the Watercolor Guild. I have requested wall space for that show. I have made several Green-man style clay heads for wall hanging and some large wall-hanging platters. The platters’ motif are Sythian, which I began to look into when![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tasia and Skeggi sat the Thrones. I don’t pretend that these things I am making are authentic, but Sythian design is so strong and unusual they could take a lifetime to explore. The Greenmen are an ongoing series. I don't make very many because they take so long because of pinching out or impressing all the little leaves around their heads. I make a new one every spring.
The week after Empty Bowls the Potter’s Guild is having a joint gallery show with the Watercolor Guild. I have requested wall space for that show. I have made several Green-man style clay heads for wall hanging and some large wall-hanging platters. The platters’ motif are Sythian, which I began to look into when
tasia and Skeggi sat the Thrones. I don’t pretend that these things I am making are authentic, but Sythian design is so strong and unusual they could take a lifetime to explore. The Greenmen are an ongoing series. I don't make very many because they take so long because of pinching out or impressing all the little leaves around their heads. I make a new one every spring.
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Date: 2007-03-21 04:16 pm (UTC)i *SO* covet that vase/jug on the peerpages icon..he is so cute!!!
anyway...more later..k?
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Date: 2007-03-22 02:27 am (UTC)That little jug icon. amazing, if I had seen it without the context I would have guessed that it was from Peru.
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Date: 2007-03-22 04:19 am (UTC)this link:
http://www.csen.org/BAR%20Book/04%20Part%203.%20Bronze.Int.pdf
has the imprints of textiles on clay that I originally thought you wanted. It is on page 113 of the document (looking at the numbers at the bottom of the pages and not on the acrobat reader...
the awesome man jug is from here:
http://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/museums/gim/earlyeurasia.html
and if you go to the home site, you can click on a bunch of other sites that might be interesting for you....
http://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/museums/gim/gim.html
have fun!!!!!
*hugs*
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Date: 2007-03-22 04:21 am (UTC)Did I mention how much I love this piece???
*hee*
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Date: 2007-03-23 03:52 pm (UTC)Actually I wasn't able to get the pdf pages, my poor little computer couldn't handle it.
But I was excited to see the other stuff. I go through *so many* ceramics books, and I don't believe I've ever seen Stepps pottery mentioned anywhere although it's unusual, creative, and some of the shapes thrown are very strong and had to have been created by a master potter.
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Date: 2007-03-23 04:32 pm (UTC);-)
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Date: 2007-03-24 04:52 pm (UTC)Thanks very much for the offer of print outs, but I think I have it now and am looking forward to spending time reading them.
I still hope to see you at May Crown though ;-)
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