So, now I was able to get to some cleaning and organizing…honestly my favorite things to do.

After having moved studios several times I have managed to collect quite a lot of things. Test tiles galore for one. These are a fraction of the tests I have, however I only could keep a few strands of these because i could only find the lists for some, about from 2007 to now I have well documented tests. Before that I was so all over the place, from celadon to shino to terra sig. So many of them were not recorded, how sad this was to look at. I’m glad I now have a very diligent system of writing on the actual test tile, this way there is no loss of paper.

Then on to my art school portfolio. From appalachian and unca, whoa. Not sure why I still have all of this, maybe i was keeping it to remind myself why i chose clay as my medium.

I decided to document some of these, since record keeping was on my mind. These were some of my better ones but i def. know why i chose clay. I miss having to push myself in drawing, I love to sketch and am religious about my sketchbook, that is definitely something that i acquired in college. I really believe that all of the drawing and painting classes and learning about the figure helped shape my eye today with clay.

This is an excersize that i can’t remember the name of. It was so fun, I still do this occasionally. You cut out pictures from somewhere and then paste them on a sheet of paper, then you draw to connect them in some way. It was always so fun to see what can form out of these random images.

Here’s to all the pages and pages of drawing paper that i and people like me have gone through.

I’ll be writing soon about my glaze tests. Hopefully there is some goodness!!!