Inspire me (from yesteryear)

Repost from 2012...and I had to see if the links were still good. Not for the article that seemed interesting, but the others are.

Inspire me

Good advice I've picked from blogs, periodicals (magazines), books, and other sources I run into - mainly about working in clay.  (I do enjoy other avenues of visual art and foods)

At San Jacinto Monument, the Battleship Texas behind my father and sis and myself. I'm the one with a bow in my hair!
A commenter said the dolls are Baby Bunting dolls, and she had made one herself. 

"There is no one so dangerous and powerful as those who receive empowerment from the wisdom of others and seek to prove its validity in their own lives... " 

Dr. Richard Jacobs, in letters to Christa Assad published in The Studio Potter, June 2004.   

(I got the hard copy of this magazine in a batch of free magazines on pottery from another blogger who was about to move to the west coast.  I had to go pick the magazines up in Bakersville, NC.  It was fun, and eventually I bought my wheel from that potter.)   http://shambhalapottery.blogspot.com/ 

NOTE 2023, this link is still working! And the ware cart that was sold to the Black Mountain Clay Studio is still in use there.

Look at the blogs being followed by someone's blog you haven't read before.  This is a great off-shoot activity which can take you anywhere.  It's better than a raw search, at least in my experience.  I'm sorry my blog isn't listed in many people's "blogs I follow."  But since I'm an introvert, I'm ok with my anonymity.

Note 2023: I still haven't put "following" gadget on my blogs!

Today I explored here: http://marianwilliamspottery.blogspot.com/

Thank you Miriam Williams.  I saw a few blogs that I already am following, and added a few new ones to my own long list.

Note 2023: This link is still working

Today I enjoyed reading this article also.  Lana Wilson's Advice on Developing Your Own Style   Would you do this, or did you ever do this exercise?  I'm awestruck that this is the way pinterest may well have started.  I do like the way brainstorming is taken into a three dimensional format by using clay.

Note 2023: that link doesn't work now.

I would love to share with you some pictures of pottery by other potters, or photos by industrious people with better eyes and equipment than I have, but don't have time to ask for permissions.  Just know that I do look, and my eyes feast upon the beauty that others create.  You'll have to go see them yourself.  I can give you links to their posts...just look at my list in the column to the right.  ( I have no idea why my blog list that's on "my profile" is so sparse...I follow about 100 blogs at least)

And back to Lana Wilson's most important piece of advice.  To go to work in the studio.  Yep.  Bye for now.

Note 2023: I gave up making pottery at the beginning of the COVID pandemic, 2020. So I had practiced that craft from 2008...12 years total.

I'm in high school and get to wear high heels for a piano recital. I'm the skinny girl on the right, wearing blue dress and fake shells necklace.

Sharing again with Sepia Saturday! 

Today's quote:

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in. -George McGovern, senator and author (1922-2012)