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July 10, 2009
Mini Pottery Workshop Video: Three Nuggets of Wisdom from an Expert Potter
Ceramics workshops are the best. If you ever have the opportunity to attend one, by all means do it. There is nothing like watching another potter or ceramic artist do his or her thing. Even if you are extremely proficient in a certain method or technique, you can always benefit from hearing how someone else does it and why. Not only can you pick up new techniques at a workshop, but you can benefit in less tangible ways as well. By listening to another potter’s perspective, you can expand your own.
A couple of years ago, master potter Tom Turner hosted a two-day workshop. Fortunately, for those who were not lucky enough to attend the workshop, he had the whole thing filmed and turned it into a DVD. The DVD is chock full of little nuggets of wisdom that come from Turner’s many years of making pottery. I picked out three of those little nuggets to share with you today. - Jennifer Harnetty, editor.
These nuggets were excerpted from the four-disc DVD set Turner’s Two-Day Workshop, which is available in the Ceramic Arts Daily Bookstore.
As the short video ended all I could say is, “hmmmm.”
I had 8 years off from making pottery,gonna start the glaze testing process all over again.
Tomorrow I go to a workshop with Randy Brodnax to learn once again “Learn how to get the most out of your kiln or kilns that interest you.”
Thanks for the inspiration Tom.
Beth
jan | July 10th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
That was a really short video just a tease but a good food for thought being at the other end of the earth we only have these
videos for inspiration. Thankyou Mr Turner & Ceramic arts Daily.
sandi | July 10th, 2009 at 7:32 pm
What a terrible tease !! Wonderful and inspiring.
I’m at the other end of the earth too, and want to buy that DVD but I need it to have subtitles as I’m totally deaf….Is there any chance ?
Margene | July 12th, 2009 at 8:36 pm
That wedging bit is right on. Can’t say that often enough!
Beth | July 10th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
As the short video ended all I could say is, “hmmmm.”
I had 8 years off from making pottery,gonna start the glaze testing process all over again.
Tomorrow I go to a workshop with Randy Brodnax to learn once again “Learn how to get the most out of your kiln or kilns that interest you.”
Thanks for the inspiration Tom.
Beth
jan | July 10th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
That was a really short video just a tease but a good food for thought being at the other end of the earth we only have these
videos for inspiration. Thankyou Mr Turner & Ceramic arts Daily.
sandi | July 10th, 2009 at 7:32 pm
What a terrible tease !! Wonderful and inspiring.
I’m at the other end of the earth too, and want to buy that DVD but I need it to have subtitles as I’m totally deaf….Is there any chance ?
Margene | July 12th, 2009 at 8:36 pm
That wedging bit is right on. Can’t say that often enough!
Linn | July 15th, 2009 at 9:51 am
Would love to see the video. What happened?