This morning Don and I mixed it up and took a pottery class together at Project Snail. It’s a lovely, small, bright and really welcoming studio^^. Small class size, utterly fantastic teacher.

We each made two pots in the two hour
session.

This was Don’s first time with clay – and my third/fourth at the wheel. I wish I could say the experience helped me! Okay, maybe it did just a little.

In Don’s words: “it was a lot of fun, but didn’t ignite any great passion”. Yep.

I do want to love it, but my heart really isn’t quite there. I think the thing is that there is a quite large barrier to entry – clay is not expensive, but wheel time is – and it would take many, many, many more hours for me to achieve basic competence. Time that I could be exploring other creative endeavours! Never say never, but this could be the last hurrah.

But in this iteration – we’ll be back in a few weeks for trimming!

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On with the pots …

My two pots:

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Don’s two pots:

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Oops – my rather *ahem* artistic vessel:

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Don’s magnificent first effort:

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^^ I wonder if I would have kept at it if I’d started out here. A much more right-for-me vibe than the last studio.

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