New Pots. Video.

I'm getting ready  for the Joara Pottery Festival which is happening tomorrow in Morganton, NC.  I fired a small load of pots to add to my current inventory.

I have been enjoying making the Animal Jars.  I thought this Bird Jar turned out great.

I'm working the inventory back up in the Etsy shop.  You can click HERE to check it out.  I listed several new pots in there this week including a Leaf Tray and a slip trailed Bell.

I've been a bit more active on my Ron Philbeck Pottery Facebook page than I have here lately.  Click on over and LIKE me there.  I'll be having some special offers for FB Friends on that page in the near future!!!

Thanks for checking in and Have a Good Weekend Everyone!!

Fun Video. Might Make You Dizzy

Yesterday I saw a neat video made by David Chesar.  I had to give it a try.  

It was fun to make.  I give complete credit to David Chesar for coming up with this concept. The camera is mounted to the batt on the wheelhead. I don't have an electric wheel so I had to stand up on the seat of my kick wheel and try and throw a pot. It wasn't easy, especially considering that the camera was whirling around on the side of the batt and I could have easily knocked it at any time. It's not a natural throwing position so I'm pretty happy that I got this simple cylinder made. 

A fun thing to try. I hope it doesn't give you motion sickness.

Here's David's video

This is the set up I used to do the filming.  Very professional...

Containment III at Crimson Laurel

Containment III opened at Crimson Laurel Gallery in Bakersville, NC over the weekend.  Here's the LINK to check out all the great work in the show.  (I don't have anything in there, but I do have pots at CLG so go in there and check them out!!)

I really love this salt cellar by Richard Nickel

 

Plan

I was working on these Animal Jars today.  The Turtle gets a bit of a different slip treatment than the others since I like to leave his head and feet bare clay.  

My brain was shuffling through the process of whether or not to stick the figure to the lid before or after slipping when I said out loud to myself,  "You know Ron sometimes you've gotta plan ahead, otherwised your screwed."   And I knew what to do.

I promise I have some nice images from the Thrown Together Sale to put on here.  They are on my iPad and I have to move them.  So that may happen soon, or later. 

It was a very good weekend.  Saturday was quite slow and I was worried that it was gonna be a bust but Sunday came and we had loads of folks show up!! Yay!  Thanks if you were someone who came out either day.  I sold two of my best pots on Sunday, a large jar and a large platter.  That sure felt good. 

It was our first time having both a Saturday and Sunday Sale.  We usually just do Saturday from 10 till 4.  I like to do it in one day and get if over with. But this time Sunday saved us all.  Does anyone out there have any opinion about 2 day shows?  I'm more interested in your thoughts as a customer.  If it's only one day do you make a point to go out? or is a second day a good thing b/c then you have more of a choice?  maybe the weather is good one day and not the next so you go on the good weather day.  ?

Gotta get out and do some drawing.  Thanks for reading!

Animal Jars

The Thrown Together Sale went really great this past weekend.  I'll put up some images and talk more about that later.  For now I just wanted to get these Animal Jars up.