Spot the Pot

I'm not one to usually paint my nails, however this morning i was looking down past the hem of my green summer dress & thought huh a complimenting color of pink would look cute. So i go and get the dusty box of crazy colored nail polish and sift thru it till i find my amazing pink, that matches my hair. As i'm sitting at the edge of my bed painting my toe nails, i notice how my tea cup named Cut Flowers is sitting there waiting so patiently for me to realize what a darlingly cute moment of girlishness this would be to capture.

The one has had a slight name change once just titled Lovely and now called The Lovely Bird or The Bird for short. It all happend because if you see on the side it has a cute little abstract bird that i brushed on in a split of a jiffy. Its a cup that i usually have my morning cup of coffee out of.

This was the first of my double spouted teapots that came about because i was trying to think of ideas that could possibly get me into grad school. So since i'm such a practical person its hard for me to venture out and make art sometimes for art sake. Even tho i love the idea, i mean i do want to be an art professor, so i embrace the idea of just making art to evoke a feeling. This teapot is named Share the Love because i think from the side the handles give it a heart kind of shape and also being double spouted one can share from either side.

When i first got this out of the cone 10 firing i couldn't get the lid off. So i stuck it in the freezer - and took it out several hours later and low and behold it popped right off. However due to the stress of the cold, it put a tear at each spout where the handle comes down. The lesson learned here... First, avoid having your lid stick. Second, if you do need to stick it in the freezer to get a lid off - i should think only a round object can go in without having any apendages that could streach & shrink to and away from itself without stressing the connecting parts.

This was the last bit of clay left on my wheel after making a dozen or so shot glasses. I knew there was too much left to make another shot glass and not enough for a mug. So then i thought what about a little Japanese vase, and Little Bit was born. So far it has become my favorite vase - for big or little flowers, it holds them all with just the right touch.

i've just noticed something, one may think my favorite color is blue with as many blue pottery items i have posted so far. However this is not true, i really like red shino glaze - its a sorta earthly redish/brownish to whitish hummm i suppose i will just have to soon post a piece that is such color.

Yes this is a teapot with 2 spouts & 2 handles. I think surprisingly its confortable to hold and pour out of either functioning spout if one so desires. This one was named by my friend Sara. I brought it to work when it was just leather hard and she looks at it and says - wow its sooooo organic looking, i think it looks like something you would find in that movie The Dark Crystal.

This started out as a nice little tumbler, however for some reason this one had a leak. I have examined it and cannot see what could be causing this leak... so instead of just tossing it, i thought to myself well it will make a cute little planter. So far what i think is oregano at least that is what my dad told me it was when he gave me the plant, loves its' home in this little tumbler. The tumblers name is Dash Seven and since it the Oregano's home i figure its only fitting to change the name appropriately for the piece.

Oh and every time my dad comes to visit me he is always surprised at how lovely my plant looks - he smiles and says wow i still can't believe this little guy is still growing!

This is a little mug i made when i had been away from doing my ceramics for a couple of years. The name of the mug is Tiger... i try to name all of my ceramic pieces. The name usually reflects what is going on around me at the time or something that has happened and not necessarily what the piece looks like.

I think this one got the name Tiger because there was a golf tournament on nearby & i heard the name.

Yesterday i was sanding a piece of metal (soda pop can) to use as the pinhole for the NEW camera i'm making. Well, thats about as far as i got - because as my other name *Side Track Sally* took over. Who knows how i ended up with material spread out all bout the floor & was cutting into a skirt then, looking at bills, GETTING the crap scared out of me from my bank sending a letter to me that my card had been compromised? WHAT? Thats not cool.... Id be getting a new card w/a new pin - make sure to check my statements to see if anything is not correct. So after checking on the bank thing (seems i really only have one questionable matter of 29 bucks - that was paid using a check - now i would not have an issue with this except the check number is - - - 1 - - - ONE... ONE - I've never had a check number 1 they started at 1000 so how the HECK did i have a check cashed as 1? And if that was "the card compromised" thing then why did it say check no 1 beside it? UGH and WTH is this crap? Well i don't know but Monday is the day to find out.

So today shot is a capture of me pinning the black film changing bag i made. I did a bit of photoshopping - oh you mean you coulnd't tell? oh well i guess i just gave that away. Heres what i did... its not as scary as the list looks. It was only one Adjustment layer, but a lot of numbers on the curves.

Cheers,
rabbit

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Hi, its me in this capture i'm finishing up the pin-hole camera ;D i am placing black foam inside the lid to make a nice and snug fit. The pin-hole camera is glazed in my pinky's pink with a bit of plum squiggles just sitting there to the left her name is Little Wings.

Finally i had all the supplies i needed to get that show on the road. I even made up a small tube pinhole viewing thingy (not sure what to call it) But the reason i made that was so i could test out the size pinhole i would need for each size camera i make. Because even tho there is a nice little formula out there i could use to calculate the size hole i need (and the sad part is i was EXCELLENT in math) i can't seem to wrap my brain around understanding it. Then i realized even if i do understand it and it tells me make .010 size pin hole WHAT IN SAM HECK do i have to measure THAT with - i'll tell ya NOTHING.

So as i was looking up other pin-hole cameras & just seeing what was out there i found a site that was giving some sort of project, seemed like it was a high school kind of thing. Anyway you use 2 tubes one a little smaller in diameter than the other so it can fit inside it. Cover the one going on the inside with "magic tape" (the tape thats sorta clear but not super clear) Then the outside one you place your pinhole - well i wanted to be able to change mine out so i rigged it a bit differently. Now i have a pin-hole viewer (thats a better name than thingy) ha ha - It helps me determine how big the hole needs to be to get a good focus with the size of the camera i make. Since there are 2 tubes one inside the other i can pull the one tube out to the distance that makes the image big & clear enough and see how far away that is... hummm not sure if i'm explaining that very well.

Sounds like there may be some future pictures so that you guys can see my tube pin-hole viewer and understand a bit better what the heck i'm trying to explain here.

Thinking of ways to take pictures,
T.Lynn

This is me and i'm loading film into my pinhole camera. Trying to remember to stay still for nearly a 45 seconds feels like such a long time when listening to hear the shutter close.

Before I had a chance to use this camera I had to go to several shops to try and find chemicals that I needed to develop the film and who knew that even though i live in the capitol of VA that the camera shops around here wouldn't have everything i needed... oh like matte paper film, Dev, Fix, SB... i mean really. What the heck and to top it off. The hours they are open were like 8 to 6 - Do they not realize that most people work from 9 to 5 and that traffic is a MOTHER around here? So after my FIGHT of getting everything i needed (which really only came down to about 6 things) i finally set it up and did some test shots. whew.

T. Lynn