Skip de doo, Irv! My first ceramics class pots are done! Who-hoo!

I started my first art class, a pottery class, at Santa Monica college with my friend Christopher. I felt it would be a fun working-meditation activity. Plus I love clay! But it took our first pinch pots (mine below) forever to be fired, glazed and re-fired. It’s week five or six basically and we have finally finished our first pots.

Blueside

   

   

I call this pot Wobbly Blue because it wobbles like a weeble but it doesn’t tip over…and its blue.

Blueinside_3

      

   

Wobbly Blue – inside

Blackside

   

   

This is called Thin Walls with Spot because the teacher wanted a bowl with thinner walls and a mysterious spot appeared in my glaze.

Blackinside

 

Thin Walls with Spot – inside

I’m going to name my pots for their imperfections (I know…it will be hard to choose which one) as the great beauty of this exercise is letting go of the idea of perfection and loving the modest, flawed thing you made.