Saturday, March 30, 2013

More Great Student Work!

John Flournoy's first attempts at working with clay came recently when he enrolled in the Spring Osher class. I think you will agree that his entry into our world is impressive.

Great work John. Looking forward to your future endeavors.

Martha Grover's Quick Slip

The Brown Bag sessions have featured Martha Gtover's DVD, "Creating Curves with Clay" for the past two weeks and will complete it in our session this Tues., 4/2 at 12:00. Martha has provided many useful techniques and tips, including her recipe for joining slip, which we published previously on a tip from John Wear. It is so useful that's it's worth repeating again (with a slight adjustment).

Martha Grover's Joining Slip recipe:
   1. Soak and blend  4 sheets of double ply bath tissue in 1 and 1/2 cups of white vinegar.
   2. Add 1 and 1/2 cups of your bone dry clay body broken into 1/4" pieces.
   3. Mix into a paste and let sit overnight.
   4. Save and use with "slip and score" whenever you are joining slabs.

Martha also suggests that you can do crack repair with this slip. Good luck!

Sunday, March 24, 2013

Brown Bag - Mar.26

Brown Bag sesssion on Tues., Mar. 26 will feature the 2nd hour of Martha Grover's DVD. The first was very well received and we're looking forward to learning some other great techniques.
Here's a sample of her work.
Join us!

Betsy Curtiss-RAL Potter

Betsy joined our group recently, but brings a great deal of pottery experience with her as you can see from some samples of her work below. Betsy will be doing a brush painting for potters workshop for the Art League in June. Stay tuned for details.