: Sunday , April 28, 2013 Something different Events for May Something different in upcoming events . I have curated and created a cup installation at our local bookstore cafe . It is not a ceramic cup thing but a paper coffee cup thing . Over several months patrons and fellow artsist have decorated cups . These cups will be hung in an installation in the cafe . nbsp The opening reception is in 2 weeks . No pressure . If you are local please try and . come Posted by P.Bridges at 4:18 PM No : comments Post a Comment Older Post Home Subscribe to : Post Comments Atom ABOUT ME BRIDGES POTTERY VIDEOS YARN BOWLS JEWELRY EARING BOWLS BUTTER DISHES TIPS TECHNIQUES EVENTS VIDEO of the Week VIDEO of the WEEK NEW every Monday Go to BRIDGESPOTTERY.COM SHOP NOW Knit One , Purl Two Yarn Bowls- HOT ITEM
Kinks, leaks, irregular water flow and plain old unsightly looks make garden hoses a necessary summertime evil for anyone with designs on growing things. Enter the Heritage Garden Hose, a lightweight (3 pounds) and flexible watering hose that makes a walk through beds, pots and lawns a breeze. Made of — Continue reading…
Links to presentations, images, video, and reports from the Houston NCECA in 2013.
: Thursday , April 18, 2013 Tripod Girl Pots It started with a project for my class the old tripod cup . It can take on a life of its own . Begining with just a decorative cup it grew demonstrating the technique of working the slab , joining it up , making the folds and stretching her out . nbsp Bridges Pottery Decorative Tripod Cup Then I decided to take to the next level and go a little bigger . What . fun Bridges Pottery Decorative Tripod Planter 11 , tall Patterned texture and glazed in Cream and blue Almost done stretching The butt view Legs Next to her little sister About 16 Tall . Maybe she needs a big sister Posted by P.Bridges at 8:43 PM No : comments Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to : Post Comments Atom ABOUT ME BRIDGES POTTERY VIDEOS YARN BOWLS JEWELRY
I will be a guest artist at this year’s Asparagus Valley Pottery Trail, a self-guided driving tour of clay studios in central-western Massachusetts (the northern I-91 corridor). This year there will be eight guests in addition to the nine potters who will welcome visitors to their studios. My pots and I will be guesting at Francine Ozereko’s studio in [...]
These are my five, springtime yunomi for AKAR Design‘s Annual Yunomi Invitational, an online only exhibition. This year, 206 potters were invited to send five cups each, so this show will have over 1000 yunomi (a Japanese cup with no handle that is taller than wide with a trimmed foot, and used for daily, informal tea [...]
: Thursday , April 11, 2013 From the Kiln Fresh from the kiln . today Bridges Pottery Tall Planter Bridges Pottery Colanders Berry Bowls Bridges Pottery Unloading Bridges Pottery Butter Dish Posted by P.Bridges at 10:06 PM 1 : comment Trish April 13, 2013 at 1:03 AM Patricia . what a great selection of pieces fresh from the kiln . so fun to open a glaze load I love your textured plates . Also in the last post re : transportation . My kiln , too , is out in the garage.I have a little bench shelf' outside the window to put the work on to , then up the stairs , around the house , and to the garage I go . and in the middle of winter . brrrr Thanks so much for the paper towel idea how great is that I am going to use that . Also , appreciate your videos . Cheers , Trish from Alberta Reply Delete
Ceramics Monthly produces an annual poster with images curated from the last year’s issues to give away at NCECA. It was fun to walk up to the CM table at the conference in Houston and see my vases on this year’s poster from my cover and spread in the September issue. Fellow 2013 poster potters [...]
: Wednesday , April 10, 2013 The Transporter If you are lucky to have a studio where your kiln is right next to where you glaze then you can ignore this post . nbsp Many of you are probably like me where my kiln is outside of the studio in a detached garage . We get more excersize than our fellow potters who have it all cozy and . close My next incarnation I will be as a plate spinner or waitress as I have mastered the art of carying trays filled with wares teetering on the bring of . imbalance To carry more than just a few things on a tray I use a piece of papertowel between each piece . That allows me to really stack em up . This is particularly good for plates , trays and horizontal work . It's just enough cushion so that the glaze doesn't get marred or rub . off BRIDGES POTTERY BRIDGES
: Sunday , April 7, 2013 Empty Shelves Shifting There is something very cleansing about the cyclical nature of ceramics . Throwing , rolling , making , trimming . Breathe , then it all empties out of the studio and the shelves are bare . Just for a brief bit and then it all comes back . Shifting from dry clay to pink bisqueware . Again shifting to . glazed Bridges Pottery Empty Shelves All loaded in the kiln In my mind I think of my routines in units and measures . Fitting as many units in during the empty shelves period . Thinking about the units it will take to prep and glaze . I see pictures of other potters studios and sometimes they look spotless I image that it is during their empty Shelves time and things are packed in the kiln . I with people would post more photos of the mess we
Highlighting the best of the clay blogs… in case you missed something! If you’re new here, you can also take a look at the February or January Clay Blog Review. Ah, March. A month full of lions and lambs, and NCECA, and Madness, and green beverages and even some eggs. Not to mention a bunch of great [...]