meat!

new hat! 

Got a lot of work done the last couple days.  Made up some sketches last night for things to do today.  i designed some pouring bottles for oil and a plate.  About mid day, after i threw the bottles and the plate, i got a little gloomy and wanted to get out of the studio.  I wondered into town and stopped at the second hand stores to see if there was anything worth while.  Ended up getting a shirt ($12) and a hat ($5).  Then i went over to the super bruggsen and bought a 4-pack of guinness and a bottle of brew dog's 77 lager.  If you haven't tried the 77 lager, i'd recommend it.  it's realllllly good! 

I felt a lot better after my trip to town, so i went back into the studio and got to work again.  I took pictures of the stuff i've made in the last couple days.  My greenware shelf is starting to fill up.  As usual, I've posted the pics to my picasa account.  I didn't finish the bottles yet, and the plate is still just a plate.  Tomorrow i'm going to pull the handles for the bottles and hand build some spouts, then try out my plate idea.  i want to trim the plate, then try to stretch it out a little to make it uneven/more interesting, then alter the rim.  i'm not entirely sure it's going to work out.  i won't know till i try. 

it's starting to get crowded!

We have to clean the studio floor tomorrow because we can't do it on friday due to the copenhagen outing.  then at some point, we have to take pictures for our exhibition poster.  we've all agreed to put white slip on our faces.  I kind of want to just dip my face in the slip, as well as a little of my hair, and then smear a line of earthenware under one eye.  hopefully it will be a warmer day tomorrow.  I was really expecting it to be freezing here, but the weather is actual quite mild.  it's almost like the oregon coast.

 We had an artist lecture last night with Nina Horn, which was pretty awesome.  She showed us a lot of slides of her huge pieces that she fires by wrapping them with fiberfax and making the piece into its own kiln.  pretty cool stuff.  She builds a firebox, then builds the piece on top of it with pieces of paper separating the sections, wraps the whole thing in fiberfax, and fires it.  once it's hit temperature, her assistant actually takes off the fiberfax and she throws sawdust and sometimes salt at it.  her pictures were amazing.  She was also a big part in getting gulderagaard started.  Very nice woman.

a large pitcher i made yesterday

We had meat for dinner tonight, a rare treat.  It's been mostly vegetables.  Maria, a Danish network resident made a roast beef from a french recipe and some sauce for it as well as a salad with red beans and rice, and home made bread that tasted like rye bread.  it was awesome.     Any time anyone asked what Maria was making for dinner, the answer was just "meat".