I got into pottery a couple years ago, primarily using hand building techniques to make mugs, plates, curio shelves, all types of “holders” and anything else you can think of. My house is filled with all of my janky ceramics, the good, the bad and the ugly! Using the pottery wheel has always been a daunting task for me, but for Christmas I was given the most incredible gift, a 7 week wheel throwing class. I will be documenting my progress in this blog, and exploring how hard wheeling throwing really is!
After a week of watching pottery videos on Instagram, and dreaming about being on the wheel, it was finally time to get muddy again! This week was a bitter sweet end to the semi-private throwing lessons as two more classmates joined. I felt I had got much of the basics covered in the first class,…
I had been so excited but also so nervous to start this class. I had tried throwing one time before and it was challenging, messy and I wasn’t very good at it. In my own defence I wasn’t in the right head space that day, and I’ve been told by potters that your mind set…