4 Cats
A response in avoidance of the Daily Post’s Writing Prompt https://dailypost.wordpress.com/prompts/disagree/
No, we don’t have 4 Cats now. Last night, friend Judy invited me, as well as friends Trish and Suzanne, to 4Cats to … wait for it … make bowls!
4Cats looks like a fun place to get really messy (and artistic)
Here are a few before’s of the wheel and accessories – before they were completely covered in splattered mud and water.
And here is the first lump of clay I worked with. Before slapping vigourously on the table…
And after.
I tried in vain to make a bowl out of this sucker, but eventually had only enough clay left for a thimble, so started again.
Sadly, I couldn’t take pictures during the experience (not without drowning my phone in wet clay), but I should have taken a picture of the complete MESS left behind. Alas, I did not, so you’ll have to make due with a picture of my creation, “Man’s inhumanity to man” – my first piece of thrown art, which will soon be fired and glazed so I can present it to the world.
I’m exhausted now!
Posted on September 28, 2016, in Daily Post and tagged Daily Post. Bookmark the permalink. 16 Comments.
Not as easy as they made it look in Ghost, huh? 😃
It didn’t help even when we were all singing the Ghost song…man!
But do the cars like it? That’s all that really matters. My guess is that they like it very much…so long as there’s food in it. 😃
I don’t think it will hold enough food for those little piggies! It’s kind of more like a paper clip (singular) holder!
Ha! When we go to flea markets and such, we are always on the lookout for what we term “art projects gone awry”. Does this bowl fall into that category? 😃
Nope – this bowl turned out exactly as I knew it would! 🙂
Hahaha! Perfect. 😃
Looks like you had a lot of fun. 🙂
It was surprisingly a lot of fun!
It’s the experience that counts. Memories are all about the experience.
You betcha!
How exciting! It looks like a lot of fun to me. Making pottery is something that I would love to learn how to do. Does it involve strong smells? I have COPD and chemically, strong smells make it hard to breathe.
I have family roots in pottery making. Some of my daddy’s people in the 1800s were pottery makers in Edgefield, South Carolina. Allen Gunter is one name that I can remember at the moment. They moved to Northeast GA and were pioneers in the alkaline glaze technique. As I understand it, theirs was mainly utilitarian pottery, not art pottery, though some may have created some art pieces along the way.
I want to do both! I hope that you’ll make lots of posts about your clay working experiences. 🙂
Have a great weekend!
It was fun. Not sure if I’ll do it again or not – I’ve never considered myself talented in this way at all. As for smells, the only smell I remember is earthy clay – no chemicals at all! I say go forth and pot 🙂 Have a great weekend too!!
Who knows, maybe there is a potter within you somewhere just dying to be set free. 🙂 I’m glad that you gave it a try. We will never find what we’re meant to do if we don’t do some experimenting along the way.
Thanks for the encouragement. I will have to look further into this.
Oh it will be a wonderful weekend if what the weather app says is true. It is supposed to be 57 degrees tonight. YAYAYAY!
You don’t know if you don’t try – hope you have a sunny wonderful weekend 🙂
Very true.
I hope that you have a sunny, wonderful weekend, too. 🙂