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I thought I would be posting a pic of a snow-covered studio
but Mother Nature and Climate Change thought otherwise. |
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Success: My animal bowls made their
introduction in the galleries this season.
They included bunnies, birds, a dog,
a sheep and a ram. |
All is quiet in the pottery studio. After months of working at a frantic pace, the time to sit back and regroup has been long overdue. It's now time to reflect on both the successes and the failures that occurred during this holiday season. It's one thing for me to like something and another, to have a customer agree. Since sales have been really great this past year, it boosted my confidence on certain designs that I wasn't sure would suit my audience. I also rotated a few of my pots from one gallery to another when they were pulled from their inventory and they all
sold immediately.
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Unpopular: I may end up with a
cupboard of these pieces. |
A series of pots that don't seem to be popular are my rust and white wax-resist pieces. I had made these at the potter's guild and they are made with terra cotta clay. I like them but judging from sales so far, I might be the only one. I also had some technical issues with some of them since it was a clay body I had not used before. I experienced some blistering, most likely due from too fast a firing. Back to the drawing board on this one.
Thankful that my work has been received so well, it provides the impetus to carry on and assures me that I was not crazy in having a studio built in the backyard last year. I look forward to experimenting with a few new techniques, new designs and improving on things I have tried before but not yet have abandoned. Bring on the new year—
happy holidays!
