OK, a couple of things, right? First "Gary, you said you CLEANED your basement this month...but look at that MESS!". I cannot disagree, but the thing is this: imagine how messy it was BEFORE. My glaze materials remain sprawled all over. I mix glazes in the basement and store clay there. You can enter from the studio down some stairs or also through a door straight out to the back yard. I can mix glazes with the door open and then hose off the messy equipment in the yard. I hate mixing glazes, but love to glaze, so you endure, right? Even with all the SPIDERS in our 149 year old basement...
Then you have this teapot! Pretty, hmm? 3 things about it:
1) I think I need to be careful about decorations all this way and that, I am in the mood to simplify these sorts of things, despite my instinct to decorate the hell out of stuff.
2) This handle? Isn't it a lovely cane handle? I have told you I keep a box of 2 dozen+ handles for teapots, and then choose a nice match when the teapot is ready. I have had this one nearly 20 years, and whereas there is usually some fiddling to make a good fit, this handle slipped on like Cinderella's slipper... all those years, waiting for the perfect teapot!
3) speaking of glaze, I may (or may NOT!) have a nice upgrade to this pretty celadon glaze....that is one thing I was doing down in the basement...
Have a great Tuesday!
(new teapot by Gary Rith)
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8 comments:
love this little teapot....and i hate mixing glazes too....except when it's small batches and it's for testing...that i don't mind at all :)
i have no idea what just happened....my comment just seemed to disappear...:P
anyway, just to say i love this little teapot...and mixing glazes is definitely a huge pain in the arse, except when it's small batches for testing a new one...that's kinda fun :)
LOVE THE GLAZE and love the teapot!
Nice teapot! I think the carving is just right and aren't you glad you have a pack rat gene? The handle is perfect!
Missed Teapot Tuesday last week; I'll try to get something up this week!
The one thing I like about mixing glazes is I can do my Darth Vader voice when I put on the respirator. Otherwise, I'm with you. The glazes and your technique really enhance the style of throwing and decorating you do. My mother-in-law nearly "appropriated" my favorite mug by you (we'll talk more about that later).
I really like that celadon. So soft and pretty.
I am with you on the glaze mixing... messy and then the whole mask thing. UGH.
Love that tea pot! What I wouldn't give to have a basement again...messy or otherwise.
" I think I need to be careful about decorations all this way and that, I am in the mood to simplify these sorts of things, despite my instinct to decorate the hell out of stuff."
Boy do I understand that! It's an ADD thing, fight it if you must. I used to paint furniture.. And would end up with more squiggles and swirls than you could shake a stick at!
Ifs hard to reign it in sometimes. You don't need to worry. Your pottery is always in the best of taste with just enough swirls!
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