Dr. K Clay ​Pottery
       

if you are going to make oval pieces, use your caliper to measure stackable pieces WHILE THEY ARE ROUND.

use paper to form sculpture of stackable pieces

"cup tree" form to hold cups! Tray with trunk forms and small "plates" to hold each cup.

Stackable place settings is an idea! Start on bottom with a saucer>cup>dessert plate>dinner plate>salad plate> soup mug on top!

- every 4 years Arrowmont has Utilitarian Clay Conference. 200 people max.

-Women Working in Clay Conference is small, maybe in Roanoke.?

experiment with how bottomless forms look different when thrown as a small-based conical bowl,a parallogram with inward slanting sides, and paddled to make a rectangle. 

you can use brushed liquid slip on anything but then need a translucent or clear glaze over it. Black slip on white porcelain is beautiful.

-use a level!!

-uses darting extensively. Puts mini coils behind each dart. John Glick may be the first to use darts

-use thin foam sheet or bubble wrap to line a chuck when trimming to protect rims

-Suze attaches feet to side of piece

-Bruce Pine Potter's Show near Bakersville, NC. Town is FULL of potters! LikeSea grove NC

-Dr. Lisa Miller podcast

-The Awakened Brain 

- book = The Book ofAwakening

-liquid or brushable slip: wax surface, carve your pattern into the waxed surface ,then brush slip over it

Straw bristle brush makes great lines with slip

-dot a pot with slipusing your finger=finger dots

-use the long pointed brushes with slip!

-**Great "orama" exercise for surface design, Linda Arbuckle says line-draw your pot 5 times ( or once and then copy it in a copier). Then draw arrows inside drawings to decide what you want to emphasize. Pick one. Then draw 5 more with motifs replacing arrows. 

-"orama" idea= "know your brushes". Newsprint and decorating brushes you own. LEARN what each brush does! Start with 3 good brushes you don't know much about

-Allen Caiger Smith YouTube British potter with brushstroke lesson

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