MONDAY, MONDAY

Today was another one of those Mondays, since this week is really kind of booked up with stuff other than working in the studio, I just decided to go down and give myself 15 minutes to make something "different". I had already decided to make something vertical and what sprung to mind was a bottle shape which ended up just over 18" tall and now came the playtime. Using two boards, I flattened out the bottle and then used a combing tool, I made a floral design that was punctuated with the end of another tool at hand to create an abstract blossom or bud style design. My initial intention was to create a faceted squared style foot but after looking at it for a bit I just wasn't entirely convinced, cut it open to check the throwing and then wedged it back up where it now resides once again as a ready to use ball of clay for future and perhaps more planned out use. The truth is that knowing my off schedule this week, it just felt good to throw something, just anything.