Guys, have you ever tried to make anything of clay?
I was pleasantly surprised when I discovered that our local history museum has a special room for pottery!
Anyone can come there, pay about 8$ per a lesson, and try to make something of clay by himself!
Kids can experience making clay handmade toys and fugires, and adults can even try a real potter's wheel!
We came some weeks ago, and I absolutely forgot to share our experience with my HaveFam!
Let's correct this mistake now;)
We came there together, my son and me, I was dreaming to try a potter's wheel long ago, so I was happy to have this chance, and my son was interested in clay toys.
At first a potter, a woman of about 35, told us that she had become a potter just for 2 months! The thing is she worked in that historical museum, and one day her boss said that they decided to create a pottery room to earm money for museum needs, and she had to be this very pottery:) If no - she would lose her job. And... she managed to get all necessary skills just watching video in the Internet. A real talant!
So our lesson lasted about 1 hour, at first my son was creating his first clay gnome;)
He had an example, and he tried to repeat it by his own hands using fingers and special tools.
and that's the result! Not bad, I think!
Then it was my turn...Oh, God how hard it was!
The wheel reacts on any movement, any shift of hands and fingers!
You are to sit without movements, constantly controlling your hands, fingers, trying to make a definite form of your future vase, and at the same time, you must control rotation of the wheel. So many tasks!
I failed many times, and started from the very beginning twice;) My teacher was patient and helped me, and at last we got a nice bowl!
For now I can't show it because all clay items had to have kiln firing, and I wait when it's ready to get it home.
But I can show some moments of process;)
that's what I've made;)
