You learn from your mistakes

As you progress through your clay hurdles, one of the most basic things to remember is to always take photos prior to firing any of your work.  Even though I haven't blown up any of my own work in quite some time, you just don't assume anything with this vile material.  Here are some of the little things that were made at Penland.

Penland Show and Tell, I was just out of the Raku kiln with PandaBrian to make most of the show.

a couple of little sketches and the little guy.

Penland Images are slowly being uploaded!

The great crew we had in Lower Clay has started posting some pictures and I'm grabbing them to post here! More will hopefully be on the way soon.  I know there were some pretty hilarious moments and I can't wait to see them again.

The Man, the Myth, the Legend: Steve Dixon

Christy Culp being adorable and patriotic as per usual.

Deda with poise under pressure.

Shona (Canada), Regine (Germany), and Irene (France) enjoying American values.

Penland was amazing!

I just spent the last two weeks assisting Steve Dixon at Penland School of Crafts and very much loved the experience.  I was fortunate to have a great class full of warm and funny characters and tons of other great people around in various departments.  So much fun, hard work and I wish it wasn't already over.......

We did (I believe) 13 Raku firings in a row and I had a great team to help.  We were all exhausted daily, but made up for it by good company and great times!  Penland is so much fun and Susan Feagin knows how to do it right.  I can't wait to go back!

I'll have to upload some new pictures soon, but must catch up on about 9 million emails and other business first.

Panda Brian in process.

Panda Brian in process 2

Penland is pretty.