Post #538636 by Weitz on Thu, Jun 24, 2010 1:04 AM

On 2010-06-23 22:42, MadDogMike wrote:
Weitz, welcome to TC. There is some good info in here, lot's of it in Babalu's thread, let me dig around and see what I can find for you. Your best bet is to take a beginning ceramics course there at the college. It will teach you the basic types of hand building like pinch pot, coiled form, soft slab, hard edge slab, etc. It will also get you going in the basics of joining pieces with slip, texture, glazes. Yes, it will take some time but it will save you endless hours in failed experimentation (I know :) )

Thanks for the advice. I'm really enjoying this thread. Been scanning through it up to page 19 now. Lots of good ideas.
I'm hoping to make a set of animal-ish mugs. I'm a biologist, and my hypothetical-mini-tiki-lounge-that-will-reside-in-my-future-grad-school-apartment will be called The Shipwrecked Naturalist (I like Darwin/Wallace era science, I do, and it'll be fun to combine these two distinct aesthetics). I doodled out an Archeopteryx bowl sketch earlier today, maybe I will post it later.