Few things I realized from making larger quantities at one time...
- You increase your efficiency. For example, you pick up one tool and do the same step on all the butter dishes. Rather than picking up and putting down 10 tools for each piece. This saves a lot of time.
- Develope quicker ways to do the same thing. I made a new tool which helps me score and slip. More on that in another post.
- And because I wanted different designs on all butter dishes, I came up with some really cool new patterns.
- And most of all your hand developes a memory, just like playing the piano which makes things go a lot faster and your work will continue to improve.
8 comments:
Wonderful to see them all lined up like that. 30! That's awesome.
Thanks Patricia. I always have such a great sense of accomplished after I am done slip decorating my work. This is where most of my effort goes in. After this it is just wax resisting and a dip in the glaze.
gorgeous!
Production work is the way to go if you can. And you're right on about the musical instrument analogy.
Your blog seems to be working fine, by the way -:)
Chuck
Thanks Chuck for checking. Hope to make it to the market someday. :)
I love these Charan!
My problem as a hobby potter is that I love to design things and never go back and make quantities of them. I think I shall make this a personal challenge :)
Alorinna, I used to be the same way. When I was getting orders of the same thing, I had to get into production mode. And everytime I increased the number of same items I made the better they got and more efficient I got. So just do it and you will realize the benefits!
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