Monday, July 7, 2008

The Streets of Bakersfield

I've been absent from posting for awhile since we returned to Bakersfield for the first week of July... It's hot here! As in 100+ and climbing.

We're headed back to the Cambria in California's central coast today, where I left a kiln load cooling a week ago. How's that for patience?!!! Imagine waiting a whole week to open the kiln!

Here are some shots of the studio in Bakersfield. It's very small, compared to the Cambria studio, but there are parts of it I just love...

Like the big double doors and windows... and my big work table...


my brushes (with a few "face cups" made while I was on a weird cup portrait phase)...








my slab roller...
and my mega-extruder I got at NCECA a couple of years ago (It was the display model for the exhibitor show... Great deal!)

3 comments:

gary rith said...

no no, not weird at all, putting faces on cups, somebody to keep the coffee drinker company and a reason to smile, right?

Vicki Gill, potter said...

What do you use your large extruder for? I bought a regular size one, then a large one with expansion box, but I haven't really gotten alot of use out of the big one. Mainly because you have to load so much clay in it and I hate to clean it out of the expansion box when done. I also had a bad experience with clay cracking at seam joints when fired, but that was the clay body.

Patricia Griffin said...

Hi Vicki! Well, to be really honest, I haven't used it much. I keep thinking I'll get around to developing some new work with it, but I haven't yet. And it's been a couple of years... :) Thanks for visiting!