CLN studios Posted July 13, 2014 Report Share Posted July 13, 2014 Do any other production potters, or just throwers. Have days where you feel like you're making the best work of your career then other days everything comes out half-ass or just crap? I wonder what causes that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mudslinger Ceramics Posted July 13, 2014 Report Share Posted July 13, 2014 Oh goodness YES.....just climbing out of a month's slump where 'everything' was crap!!!!......forms, glaze application, experiements....all horrible.....some really horrible....some awaiting further judgement..... .....but it all looked like crap until late last week (I hope), where I ended up with a kiln load of beautiful pale water blue glazed bowls .....whenever I lose momentum I simplify back to basics which for me are bowls (my favourite form) and my most reliable water blue glaze.....reminds me I can be a decent potter Irene Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcia Selsor Posted July 13, 2014 Report Share Posted July 13, 2014 yes. It is part of the game as Tasheko Takaezu use to say. Marcia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Campbell Posted July 13, 2014 Report Share Posted July 13, 2014 YES. ... but then you get those days when you are totally in the zone .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denice Posted July 13, 2014 Report Share Posted July 13, 2014 I go through a manic day about once an year, I hate everything I have made or currently working on. I go through my shop and toss everything and start out with a clean slate. I have learned not to keep any finished piece I like in my shop. Denice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callie Beller Diesel Posted July 13, 2014 Report Share Posted July 13, 2014 Does this NOT happen to anyone?? Hang in there. I find this is the dark before the dawn of a breakthrough. Cal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcia Selsor Posted July 13, 2014 Report Share Posted July 13, 2014 I had a sucky day in the studio throwing some big orbs and having them start to sag before I was done. I did something I have never done before.My paper clay is still drying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stellaria Posted July 13, 2014 Report Share Posted July 13, 2014 I'm still a beginner, but yes, definitely. Some days I can't get anything to come out even halfway decent, and other days I'm totally on my game and everything is effortless and pretty. Too bad it's not a predictable cycle, eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Babs Posted July 13, 2014 Report Share Posted July 13, 2014 Necessity is the mother..... Did you position this on your own? Such skill I would have bashed it all over the place If I had attempted that! Got you blow torch out? Yes some days one should gracefully or with dignity leave your shed/studio and go back to bed, or just sit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Bridge Pottery Posted July 13, 2014 Report Share Posted July 13, 2014 This is what I love about ceramics, if I am feeling crap at throwing there are a hundred more things I can work at and hopefully feel good about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcia Selsor Posted July 14, 2014 Report Share Posted July 14, 2014 maybe tomorrow will begin some sculpture. Yes I have a heat gun and a blow torch. But I found after trying those, that this seemed like a natural progression. I liked shaking them into a nice form...upside down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isculpt Posted July 14, 2014 Report Share Posted July 14, 2014 Oh absolutely. It seems that when the work is still wet, I think it's great, and then when it's completely finished all I can see is where it failed to live up to its potential. I have been feeling that "all my work is pointless crap" feeling for several weeks now, having just finished a delivery of 15 finished pieces to a gallery. I got an email last week from a teapot show informing me that they sold one of my teapots to the Kamm Teapot Foundation, which started 35 years ago as a private collection by Los Angeles collectors Sonny & Gloria Kamm and has grown to over 10,000 teapots, many of which are on loan to msueums. On good days, I think "Yaay! I can't totally suck!" and on bad days I think "Well - 10,000 teapots - what's the big deal? It would be harder NOT to be in the collection!" Downer Jayne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Babs Posted July 14, 2014 Report Share Posted July 14, 2014 Well Jayne you make me laugh, I can just hear you, "What's your ambition for 2015? "Jayne replies, " I'm really gonna strive not to get into that collection with 10001 teapots in it' Mad lady! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isculpt Posted July 15, 2014 Report Share Posted July 15, 2014 Well, Babs, THAT cracked me up. You certainly know how to put things in perspective! Jayne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plover Posted July 15, 2014 Report Share Posted July 15, 2014 If we always felt we were doing well, good, the best we could do, we would have nothing to strive for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcia Selsor Posted July 15, 2014 Report Share Posted July 15, 2014 That is true. Even when I get some stunners I can't wait to try more. Marcia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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