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Pastimes : ceramics-clay-pottery -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Crocodile who wrote (24)	12/2/2001 11:06:07 AM
From: AugustWest	Respond to of 338

Morning. Woke this morning about 5ish came out here, drank a cup of coffee thought of throwing some more. Went back to bed until about 8:30 :) But I did just get done spinning nine more vases. I'm gonna be real sore. The last one was a bear. It was about maybe a 15 lb ball. Don't know what child birth feels like, but I was sure working that hunk into center. Did manage to get it with a few busted blood vessels in the eyes though! Narrow and tall. It's over 22" tall and only about 6" at the base flaring out towards the top to maybe 9" before coming back in to a 6" lip. Sure makes me appreciate aged/plastic clay. Now I know why the Japaneese prepare their clay for the next generation. Let it age 20 years, and it is so forgiving. Mine has only been aged about five years. I was thinking about what you said about working with clay and that you don't really see the finished piece at the beginning. I think that might have more to do with the process... Exactly! You're doing relief sculpture, I am building up(such the same as steel or other fabrications. I don't know how well I'd do with relief sculpting. I could look at a block of woor or stone, and see a finished piece inside it, but I don't think it's quite that easy. maybe I should start with bars of soap<GGGG> You just stop and look at a piece and suddenly think... "Hmmm... I think it I want to put THIS on HERE. Yeah! That's more like it!!" (o: I was doing something neat a long while back when I was actively doing the fountains. Sometimes two at a time as well. I would take poloroids. I'd take photos of the work in progress. Than later, after cutting off a peak and transposing it(sometimes even on the other piece) I'd take more pictures. it was really a neat thing(for me anyhow) to watch how things transpired from WIP to finished piece.. So that's where I'm at. I think i might have enough ware to do a glaze firing. maybe one more sitting but definitely got some good head way acomplished. My next goal is to locate that damn slab roller(gotta be in one of only three places- will find it this week) and try to get a fountain or two going. Only thing with the sculpture, it's not a couple hours here a couple hours there sort of thing. When i start a piece(usually rolling out a couple hundred pounds of clay at a time. I have to almost be married to it. I mean work endlessly with it uuntil perhaps it needs to firm up a little before I can add more. I mean curling up in a ball right next to it and crashing for a few hours waking up adding a little more, write in the journal. a bit. maybe to some light spinning that would be incorporated into the piece. But practically can't leave it's side until I am to the point where I just baby sit it while it is drying. And god forbid that I should have one single drop of alcohol in my system during the whole process. For me I can not, have learned not to even attempt sculpting if I have any in my system. I have about a 100% destruction rate when such occurances happen. So it is good for me to get back into sculpting. LOL!