Colorado Art Studio » garage studio http://coloradoartstudio.com Handmade Pottery and Ceramic Jewelry by Cynthia Guajardo Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:00:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Let’s Play True Confessions… http://coloradoartstudio.com/2007/09/20/lets-play-true-confessions/ http://coloradoartstudio.com/2007/09/20/lets-play-true-confessions/#comments Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:50:00 +0000 Cynthia http://coloradoartstudio.com/blog/?p=297 Read The Rest →]]> Cynthia's Messy Studio
No wonder I haven’t wanted to spend much time in my studio – I can barely even find my wheel!

I’ll start off my little game of true confessions. I’m a procrastinator! There, I said it and the truth is out in the open, though I’m not proud of my procrastinating tendencies. I haven’t gone into my studio for a number of reasons, but the main one being that it was a mess. I couldn’t find anything, and frankly I just decided to play the avoidance technique card. Here’s the problem though… I am getting cranky. Cranky, because something is missing in my life right now – mainly manipulating clay into something, anything.

So, yesterday, I cleaned for 2 hours until I could find my wheel, until I had put everything away in its rightful place, so that my studio could function again. Once I finished and gathered up stray 2 pound bags of used clay, I wedged up some porcelain. Man, the clay hard as a rock from neglect! But after banging it around a bit and forcefully wedging it, the particles aligned and were once again malleable.

Porcelain Wheel Thrown Bottle

I haven’t thrown for a least 4-6 weeks, so I warmed up by making a bottle

cross section of porcelain bottle
Just for kicks and giggles, I cut the bottle in half to see how good of a job I did – not bad!

2nd porcelain bottle
I decided to keep the second bottle that I threw on the wheel

Throwing on the wheel is a bit like riding a bike; once you learn, you never forget. It took me a little longer to throw the first bottle, but I think I’m back in the saddle. Yippee skippee!

So, why did I decide to finally tackle my studio and get back to work? I think sometimes, I make things harder than they have to be. For example, Tuesday after I subbed all day long, I went for a run around 5pm. What’s so spectacular about that? I’m a morning runner and the mere thought of running in the heat and after working all day makes me nauseous. But, guess what? It’s all psychological for me. I told myself that if I went out and needed to walk, that would be okay. But, I didn’t have to walk. I ran the whole way and my dog was uber thankful after being cooped up by herself all day long. Afterwards, I told myself, “see that wasn’t so bad, tomorrow you’re going to clean up your studio!” And, I did. Whew…

Do you have anything you’d like to confess?

~Cynthia

Blog
Website

Subscribe to Fine Art and More by CMGuajardo

]]> http://coloradoartstudio.com/2007/09/20/lets-play-true-confessions/feed/ 7