This week in the studio was spent enjoying the nice weather throwing on my wheel in my garage studio. I realized while throwing on it that you haven't been introduced to my pottery wheel, Minerva. I got Minerva in April of 2010. It's previous owner was Gusti, a potter in Eckert. Minerva is a Bailey ST100. I love throwing on it. My sister Morgann and I named her Minerva after the Greek goddess of creation and destruction. I thought the description was perfect for pottery. When I took the trip to Eckert I also made a stop at the Creamery Art Center in Hotchkiss. The Creamery is a great gallery and working studio. I had the privilege of meeting David Price the potter in residence. The bathrooms were amazing works of art. They blew me away. One was made of glass shards and the other was made of mosaic pottery shards. The pictures above are one of me throwing on Minerva and the others are of the creamery.
I also spent some time this week glazing my 25 mugs and a tea set. I am glazing all of them with an oribe (green) glaze. I will post pictures when they all come out of the kiln. I got an order to make five tea bowls and a matching tea pot. I did some abstract brush work on the tea bowls and tea pot with blue, green, black, and brown stains. I glazed it with a thin dip of a clear overglaze.
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