: Diane Puckett - Viewing Profile

I love your design, enough to copy it for inspiration for my own garden. I agree with what has been said about the base. The one you made, especially with the cut outs, gives the base a lot of lift.

Robin Hopper's book on functional pottery has at least one chapter on form and proportion. I took some drawing and design classes hoping to get more information on this topic but did not find the classes helpful. If anyone knows of a good book about this just for potters, I would love to know about it.

When you say stock pieces, I assume you have a number of each of those pieces at a show. Don't put them all out at one time. A display of fifty nearly identical mugs may look nice, but none of those mugs looks special enough for people to feel like they have to have one. They need to worry that if they walk away, what they want may be gone before they get back.

I think FB can be a great way to get your work in front of people, but I would not pay for it. I agree that just letting it happen works better than imposing unwanted ads. I also love the McMaster site, but so far that is the only site I don't mind seeing multiple daily posts from. There are numerous FB pages I have liked but then blocked them from my newsfeed because they were posting several times a day. My personal preference is a posting maybe once a week. And if you post multiple photos on the same day, an album allows me to look at all the photos without them filling up my newsfeed with individually posted photos.

Other than that, there is just the soul-sucking, time-wasting element of FB. I have noticed that that more battery power left in my iPad at the end of a day, the more productive and enjoyable day I have had.

Thanks for all the good info!

I buy bags of cosmetic sponges, available in any drugstore. They are little, white wedges. They can be washed but are so inexpensive I generally just throw the sponge away after glazing.