sunny stirling

Wow what a great day & no rain just great mild weather & sun sun sun..

and the crowd was out it was busy up there, we had a day of catchup with regulars and old friends, Roses bloke mike made some cards all hand drawn they went down a treat, I sold my penultimate shino bowl that's it I have to crank up my gas kiln now! Had a few dud platters in my last firing..not sharing! they will be refired.... however the door prize for friday night came out of the firing successfully.

it's quiz time

and the winner is....



you reckon its what?

the cheese was good

go on judith show us mary...

All in all another successful fundraiser for the club we had the return of some favourite games, heads and tales, 100 really tough questions ta rae, pick ya treasure, chockies, belinda managed to get the room to part with more dollars for a surprise mary unveiling and thankyou very much judith and all kick started with a happy hour warm-up. Oh and unusually I squished in on the winning table we got to pick 1st from a table of super prizes all donated by club members, this is the orchid plant I chose thanks yvonne.

Tomorrow is Stirling Market here's hoping for a good turn out and no rain, oh no it just started raining oh well hopefully it all drops tonight and we have a nice mild day tomorrow...I dropped my pots over to Campbelltown show today the opening is Tuesday night it's always a good show and a great opening very well run by Rotary and the City of Campbelltown and next saturday the 31st Raku firing starting about 10am and goes all day, see ya then guys..

sketchbook

here's some drawing from my journal at greg daly workshop last weekend

page 1 is collaring that tall form thumb and finger placement which he finshed collaring with a large screwdriver..page 2 is scoring with a knife and throwing from inside only..page 3 is colour inlay while on the wheel and continue throwing..

more from greg

just thought i'd add a few more pics from yesterday that I like, there's plenty of inspiration here and i'm sure something will flow through later.  I do like the knife tools he used to make very sharp marks in the wet clay some of which were stretched again after throwing continued from  the inside of the pot or vessel. I have some drawings which i'll add later from my journal which possibly explain more of what is going on here.

it takes 3 hands

           

Greg Daly workshop at murray bridge this weekend I went down for today, it was informative all round from plates to vases to tall forms and platters. Thankyou Rose for having us at your studio and for the great catering. 

Question.............'What's the difference between a pot & a vessel?.....................$2000!' 

Thanks Greg for reading from pooh to ceramic life philosophy of Cardew to Hamada and many more, I'll let the pics speak for themselves this set is the interactive portion.