GiselleNo5

... he was selling completely plain mugs, dipped, for $4-$12 and I was selling my textured, work-intensive mugs with brushed glaze, generally around an hour per item, for $15-$30 depending on size. Everybody bought his stuff. I've tried to make plain, I really have, but I hate it. It isn't ME.

When I make plain stuff (read: no carving or slip trailing) I will decorate the surface with engobes or wax resist in the glaze stage. I just ... CAN'T. I know it's the way to make money doing production but I feel really dull and listless about that kind of work and I don't even want to finish it. Which isn't the point! If I'm not excited about it why am I doing it?

Okay now I feel bad because I complained a bunch but the truth is that it was really fun, my dad helped me build display shelves so setup took 20 minutes; I very much enjoyed meeting people and talking to them about my work and art in general. And also I loved seeing people interact with my stuff. I put lots of texture and I saw lots of touching. One lady apologized and I said, "Touch everything! I want touching them to be irresistable!" And she said, "Well, you've suc...