winter drawings

Just wanted to post these previous drawings for my blog. I'm sure you've seen them. :)

The Studio

This is one throwing room in the studio. It's my fav cause it has a wall made entirely of windows. Gotta love that natural light. Mudflat is quite an amazing space. I'm pretty sure the building used to be a theatre. There's a majestic proscenium arch towards the back of the building that was possibly in a fire at some point. The frame looked charred, lots of character. Prettttty awesome. 

This is a practice pot. Best I've thrown thus far.

Gooey Butter Cake

No one in Boston seems to know what gooey butter cake is. Everyone that I've let try this all-time favorite recipe it has had the same reaction and I quote, "this is heaven".

Yes, it certainly is.

Teapot

I started my wheel-throwing ceramics class today! Yea! And I definitely suck at wheel-throwing! Yea! It may have been a little ambitious to start an intermediate throwing class, since it's been about 7 years since I've been on a wheel. It's really the first time in my life that I feel comfortable being the worst student in the class. I couldn't be more excited to learn. I'll be sure to document my progress. 

This is my first finished teapot from my handbuilding class (and kitty, of course). I built it from two pinch-pots molded together, then I added the base, lid, spout, and handle. I'm actually really happy with it. The lid broke prior to bisque-fire, which meant I had to made another with wet clay. The trick was anticipating how it would fit on the shrunken bone-dry base. Lucky for me, I guessed right. Fits like a glove!

Morgan

I had some time to kill yesterday while at Brandeis University, so I popped this sucker out in about a hour. This one looks the least like the person I was intending on drawing, but its kind of my favorite daily drawing so far. It's a rare treat to enjoy drawing eyes.