Evelyne Schoenmann Posted July 7, 2015 Report Share Posted July 7, 2015 Boy, how fast the weeks fly by.... I just wrote the trash bin kiln question of the week and - zip - it's another Tuesday and here we go again.... Some of us work in their own studios (my dream!), some work in the garage or in the basement. I know a famous French ceramist who works at her kitchen table... My this weeks question is: where are YOU working and would you post a picture of your working space? If possible with a current piece you're working on in the picture too. I myself work in the basement of our house. I occupy half of the laundry room and half of the wine cellar (no kidding!). My kiln is in the corridor of the basement. In the picture below you see the laundry room part (with a tripod under progress). Now I'am curious how YOUR potter's workplace looks like! Have a happy week (we just had a 2 weeks heatwave - sigh - with temps in the 104 F during day and 90F during night)... Evelyne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcia Selsor Posted July 7, 2015 Report Share Posted July 7, 2015 here are some views in my studio.Working at the wheel, slab roller and wheel set up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JBaymore Posted July 7, 2015 Report Share Posted July 7, 2015 I would but I am out of photo space after the NHIA anagama construction pictures. best, ..................john Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldlady Posted July 8, 2015 Report Share Posted July 8, 2015 well, in trying again, i messed up a different way. sigh................... going to try. not the one i wanted to post, will try again. tried everything i learned. the picture won't post because it "is being edited in another program" according to the cad info. i only made it smaller in 'paint'. dhpotter helped me out so much that the real picture is now on page 2. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denice Posted July 8, 2015 Report Share Posted July 8, 2015 Old lady wow what nice light you have, I thought I had a lot of windows nothing compared to yours. My last studio was in a basement that had no windows at all so I can't complain. Denice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callie Beller Diesel Posted July 8, 2015 Report Share Posted July 8, 2015 Evelyn, I need to know the story about the poster of Heidi and Howdy three! (I was in sixth grade and about 12 for the Calgary Winter Olympics.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Campbell Posted July 8, 2015 Report Share Posted July 8, 2015 Here are two shots ... one where it is all clean for picture day and another taken today as I get set to teach my workshop at Touchstone next week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldlady Posted July 8, 2015 Report Share Posted July 8, 2015 thanks, denice, the windows were to be used on a house i planned to build but did not get to. there were 11 of them. used 8 here and 3 in the former garage next door. still turn on the lights hanging on the shelf above the wheel. the picture i tried to post is from the exterior. glad to get the source of evelyne's poster. thanks, callie. chris, LOVE the color of the room! it is on the second floor so you play in the trees, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DirtRoads Posted July 8, 2015 Report Share Posted July 8, 2015 1) Making room 2) Glazing room Yes, Pup is part of the studio .. always. And TV lol .. Yeah for Roku. (I knew I would be seeing that pink again in this topic ... I WANT IT) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Campbell Posted July 8, 2015 Report Share Posted July 8, 2015 thanks, denice, the windows were to be used on a house i planned to build but did not get to. there were 11 of them. used 8 here and 3 in the former garage next door. still turn on the lights hanging on the shelf above the wheel. the picture i tried to post is from the exterior. glad to get the source of evelyne's poster. thanks, callie. chris, LOVE the color of the room! it is on the second floor so you play in the trees, right? Yes, I was in the basement of my previous house so gladly took over one of the upstairs bedrooms and installed a sink. If I ever need to sell, I guess we could call it a wet bar?? Can I tell you how tired I am of the Pepto Bismol pink??? But too lazy to tear apart the studio to paint it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldlady Posted July 8, 2015 Report Share Posted July 8, 2015 NO! NO! chris, that is the wrong name for that Canada Mint color! 1957 ford thunderbird color! prom gown color! wide skirt dresses for the chours in the operetta in high school color! B E A U T I F U L G I R L Y P I N K !!! one wall in my studio is coral. looking out the windows through pale blue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Campbell Posted July 8, 2015 Report Share Posted July 8, 2015 NO! NO! chris, that is the wrong name for that Canada Mint color! 1957 ford thunderbird color! prom gown color! wide skirt dresses for the chours in the operetta in high school! B E A U T I F U L G I R L Y P I N K !!! one wall in my studio is coral. looking out the windows through pale blue. OH!!!! Were you at MY PROM!! My gown was indeed pink .... ugh! I had totally forgotten that fashion faux pas! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marko Posted July 9, 2015 Report Share Posted July 9, 2015 This is my Garage studio. It's 14' x 30'. Practicing on bowl today. Not much luck today. This is my drunken weeble pot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evelyne Schoenmann Posted July 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 9, 2015 Wow, you all have so much space, so much light, a pug mill, air condition (!!!!!), colorful walls...... What great looking studios! Congrats and thank you for sharing. I hope that there will be still more forum users showing us their working space. John: too bad you are our of pics! I would have loved to see your work space. Marko: what's wrong with the vessel/pot? I think it is very nice. No wobbling. Why don't you like it? Marcia: you will have problems to find a retiring home with so much space for a potter. You rather stay in your home! Diesel: is that the name of those 2 cuties? I bought the poster a few years ago at the Jeff Koons exhibition in our Beyeler Museum near Basel. It is such a good start to a clay-day looking at those two bears. Yesterday I drove to my Italian home. Heatwave also here. And, as in Switzerland, aircondition is forbidden in Europe in private homes. So we just have to suffer.... Sweaty hugs to you all! Evelyne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcia Selsor Posted July 9, 2015 Report Share Posted July 9, 2015 I couldn't work down here without air conditioning. It is in the 90s and very humid. I don't really have heat as it never gets really cold here. Not below freezing except for 4 hours about 5 years ago. I have Montana blood. I like cold. Marcia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldlady Posted July 9, 2015 Report Share Posted July 9, 2015 evelyne, you are welcome to come to my air conditioned home and studio at any time. stay all summer, just do the glazing. starting today, please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhPotter Posted July 9, 2015 Report Share Posted July 9, 2015 A detached outbuilding the previous owners of the property used as living quarters while the house was being built. It was 20 x 12. It was already plumbed for water and wired for both 120 and 240. Luckily, because this was their house for 1 year, the building has it's own breaker box. I gutted it, made it my computer office with a mainframe and 3 pc's. Then gutted it again, added 12 x 12 to the end of the building and made it a pottery studio. I still had to run 2 large wires for the kilns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JBaymore Posted July 9, 2015 Report Share Posted July 9, 2015 ........computer office with a mainframe and 3 pc's. Mainframe!!!! ?????? OK... do tell. best, ..................john Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph Fireborn Posted July 9, 2015 Report Share Posted July 9, 2015 You all have such beautiful spaces! Congratulations. I will post some of mine shortly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhPotter Posted July 9, 2015 Report Share Posted July 9, 2015 John: I knew the word mainframe would catch someone's attention. Actually it was 2 mini computers, IBM AS/400's. I had one for development and the other I had leased out to a customer till they went belly-up. Now, everything is in the cloud. Only need 1 pc and connection to the internet. Kind of scary to think how fragile the internet can be with all of the hackers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldlady Posted July 9, 2015 Report Share Posted July 9, 2015 marko, love your animals, is that an anteater next to the test kiln? and the pig on the banding wheel is a really happy camper! kiln gods or dragons all over the place. you have everything you need but i bet you spent hundreds on all those bottled glazes! put some of the animals in the gallery, they really look great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbeartx Posted July 9, 2015 Report Share Posted July 9, 2015 I work at Dallas Makerspace, a tool co-op. I've built up this program from a kick wheel in an un-airconditioned garage to what we have now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldlady Posted July 9, 2015 Report Share Posted July 9, 2015 (this picture comes to you courtesy of dhpotter, a lovely gentleman with the patience of job.) notice my "spray booth". the white residue from the last glaze firing last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeU Posted July 9, 2015 Report Share Posted July 9, 2015 My studio is 12' x 14' and was the "big" bedroom less than 6 months ago (good thing I live alone-I am now sleeping on a twin size bed in the 8 x 10 "spare" room LOL). No work in progress in the pics. I had to shut down for a bit due to the surgeries/recovery but will be back in action after a vacation with my sister (NYC baby, here we come!). As you can see, just about every square inch is packed and serving a purpose, including doing double-duty for my painting & supplies. The kiln and glazing/loading/unloading/planning table are on my back porch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marko Posted July 10, 2015 Report Share Posted July 10, 2015 Wow, you all have so much space, so much light, a pug mill, air condition (!!!!!), colorful walls...... What great looking studios! Congrats and thank you for sharing. I hope that there will be still more forum users showing us their working space. John: too bad you are our of pics! I would have loved to see your work space. Marko: what's wrong with the vessel/pot? I think it is very nice. No wobbling. Why don't you like it? Marcia: you will have problems to find a retiring home with so much space for a potter. You rather stay in your home! Diesel: is that the name of those 2 cuties? I bought the poster a few years ago at the Jeff Koons exhibition in our Beyeler Museum near Basel. It is such a good start to a clay-day looking at those two bears. Yesterday I drove to my Italian home. Heatwave also here. And, as in Switzerland, aircondition is forbidden in Europe in private homes. So we just have to suffer.... Sweaty hugs to you all! Evelyne I am practicing on bowls. I don't know what I am doing wrong. could use some advice. But I seen to center well enough, and the clay is about medium soft, no grog Bee Mix5. But when I get to this point I sometimes have this one spot that is like a weight on a fan that throws the hole thing off. So I try and fix it and I just make it worst. This one collapsed. I think I just need to make more. I don't know. I must be doing something wrong. Sorry about the heat and not having air con. I have a 320 air conditioner; that's open 3 doors and hope for a 20 mph wind. LOL. I'm sort of use to it. But air would be nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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