Monday, May 5, 2014

Working Through

The texture on this tray with handle is from the crocheted piece from the thrift store in the last post. It doesn't look anything like I thought it would. I see the top of the handle dried quickly over night. Not sure this will make it, the handle is too thin and may crack.

I made this plate with an underlying grid pattern, then I decided to smear around the leaf outlines. I don't like that, so this will go into the recycle pile. Not everything makes the cut; there's a lot of working through with clay. But I feel like if I don't experiment I don't get anywhere. Thanks for reading and for all your comments.

6 comments:

  1. You can't figure out what works until you find what doesn't.

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  2. Thomas Edison said he learned 10,000 ways not to make a light bulb before he found out how to make a light bulb. Keep experimenting and learning.

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  3. Hi Suzi, thanks, so true, so true.

    Hi Lori, thanks, hopefully I don't go beyond the 10,000 mark before I figure it out. Ha.

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  4. The tray still seems to have a crochet motif when I enlarge it.

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  5. I love seeing (a little) of the process - and the texture to that tray. Thank you.

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  6. Hi Joanne, thanks, it does, just not what I expected; I expected more open space, ok non the less.

    Hi Elephant's Child, thanks, it's all a balancing act and also a discarding act. Ha.

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