Pastabilities
Nov. 1st, 2020 07:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
offcntrI started another glazing cycle Friday. Once again, it's a little weird.
In a normal year, I'd be recovering and restocking from Clay Fest, getting ready for Clayfolk (my biggest show of the year), with a little left over to begin Holiday Market. Stock would be perilously low, and I'd be focusing on what to replace.
This year? Not so much. Sales have been good at Market, and I find I need to replace cookie jars, teapots, a platter. (And tall mugs. So many tall mugs.) But there was no Clay Fest, will be no Clayfolk, and Holiday Market is severely reduced: five Saturdays, 10 am-3 pm, outdoors on the Park Blocks. So how much stock I'll need, and what, is unknown.
Fortunately, Childhood's End Gallery came through with a moderate-sized order, so I can start with work for them. Tall mugs--who'd have guessed?--and pasta bowls were the bulk of the order. So Friday, I started with pastas.
It's always fun to start with big drawings. I'm also breaking in a new black line brush (tip had worn down on the old one), and it seems to be working very well.
In a normal year, I'd be recovering and restocking from Clay Fest, getting ready for Clayfolk (my biggest show of the year), with a little left over to begin Holiday Market. Stock would be perilously low, and I'd be focusing on what to replace.
This year? Not so much. Sales have been good at Market, and I find I need to replace cookie jars, teapots, a platter. (And tall mugs. So many tall mugs.) But there was no Clay Fest, will be no Clayfolk, and Holiday Market is severely reduced: five Saturdays, 10 am-3 pm, outdoors on the Park Blocks. So how much stock I'll need, and what, is unknown.
Fortunately, Childhood's End Gallery came through with a moderate-sized order, so I can start with work for them. Tall mugs--who'd have guessed?--and pasta bowls were the bulk of the order. So Friday, I started with pastas.
It's always fun to start with big drawings. I'm also breaking in a new black line brush (tip had worn down on the old one), and it seems to be working very well.