Sandy snow and studio fun!

Sorry for the lax updates, but a little gal named Sandy came a hammering through the East Coast and it's sort of messed up the schedule a little. Not that we are complaining, there are folks out there who lost their homes, their towns and even their lives. We just had a little interruption to our travel plans and some unexpected snow!

So this Sunday, 11th Nov, sees our Red Dirt open studio. It's a day for collectors, museum curators and other such peeps to wander through our working spaces and hopefully inspire commissions and buyers to add us to their collections. Fingers crossed.

Here's a little hint of what I've been up to........ we are just so grateful to all our Kickstarter backers, as through their generosity I realised that in the last six weeks we have learnt..... MIG, TIG and Stick welding. Plaster & Rubber mold making. Impression taking.

Glass slumping, fritt casting. Clay reclamation,

working with different clay bodies, (This is a sneak of my 'meat carvings' I'm creating large clay steaks and drawing in them with clay or carving them. The fat is porcelain.)

mason staining, underglaze painting techniques, low and hi firing. Blow torching on wood. Porcelain carving techniques.

Oh, the list goes on..... But the most crucial thing I've learnt? NOT to bash apart pianos with sledgehammers - they can kill you with 200 tonnes of strung pressure. I've never come so close to wiping out an entire studio of people. Stupidity and a slegehammer are a dangerous mix! : ) SO once the show is up and staged, we will take pictures and share it all with you, our lovely backers, Inga n Andy

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Great to have good news from you, folks ;) Have fun and continue to learn as much as you can while you are there: it sounds brilliant! Love. K