I started building a Korean style kick wheel a couple weeks ago. A friend of mine gave me about 25 board feet of cherry wood and I started cutting it up. I have all the pieces glued together now and am going to be planing each layer this week. I've run out of photo space on blogger but if you are a facebook member you can follow my progress in my Korean Kick Wheel photo album. When I get it all done I'll also post the photos somewhere else for public viewing.
Last weekend I built some new equipment for my studio. I built a mini slab roller that works really well, I made a couple plaster reclaim slabs, a nice photo shoot table and even threw some coffee mugs on the kickwheel that I built. I posted photos on my other blog site, Coulee Region Art. If you'd like to see the photos just follow the link and then click on the photo of me at the wheel.
ta daaaaa!!
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ta daaaa!! firstly mmm lunch and the lovely new mug from margaret brampton
with some yummy tea...
and mud checking out whats going on up the garden that...
York Museum have bought my pot!
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I had a very exciting email today from Helen Walsh, who is Assistant Curator
of Decorative Arts for York Museums Trust.
Helen mailed to let me know that th...
Feeling like a .......
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......Nimrod....
Don't you hate it when you go to bed with such big plans for the coming day?
Well..this is where my story begins.......
Today was going t...
My new pottery studio, so far.
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Thanks for the warm ‘welcome back’ and all the congratulations and well
wishes! All the comments and messages make me feel like I’m at a reunion of
good fr...
Kanthal wire...
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I have been trying to find a source for Kanthal wire. Continental Clay sells it, but I also found some on ebay. Purchased both 14 and 16 gauge lengths. Any a...
“Morning Exposures”
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“Morning Exposures,” photography by Diana Swim and Phyllis Olson at The
Heider Center in West Salem. Reception today, Thursday December 17th from
6:30pm to...
Progress and Swapping
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by Eleanor Hendriks
I am thrilled to report that there is progress on my gallery entrance -the
framing for my new doors and one window is in!
I'm hoping to...
Took my first clay classes at Bemidji State University in 1989. In 2002, after a long break, I started more pottery classes at Viterbo University in La Crosse, WI.
I do not have one area of interest, but that isn't to say I am unfocused. I enjoy making everything from coffee mugs to trompe l' oeil. I work with highfire stoneware, and low fire earthenware. I'm just clay crazy.