Have you found YOUR Grail?

[ink_n_imp]

'Cause I found mine last weekend.

Or, more truthfully, I made mine.

I'd never thrown ceramics on a wheel before, and last weekend while I was up a New Paltz, joined in the Holy Fellowship of Defeating Resident Evil 5, of Romping Madly through the woods with a camera and an overwhelming willingness to look silly in front of it, and of Quaffing Lots of the Mead and Cider and Beer, neo_ninja's roomie Jessie took us to the SUNY's art studio and taught us the ways of the clay and wheel.

And for my first time, I MADE A GRAIL.


BEHOLD ITS' HOLY MAJESTY!!!




IF it survives the kiln (I've been having nightmares of air bubbles. *shudder*), it shall emerge with a green glaze, and I shall bear it forth, and shall decorate it with gild and pearls and I shall dub it The Chalice of the Green Knight.

Because really, if you're GOING to be a dork, you may as well go all out.

Comments

[hiroyuki-samson.livejournal.com]

That, for lack of a better word, is stremendous.

[hiroyuki-samson.livejournal.com]

Stremendous, for the uninitiated, being tremendous, with an S, for special.

Or strawberry, if one isn't allergic.

Mm... strawberry flavored tremendousness.

[ink-n-imp.livejournal.com]

I approve of this word, Stremendous. ^_^ I deem it a Good Word, worthy of use.

[ink-n-imp.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Let's just hope it survives.

And d'oh, you flatterer. ^_^

[mellifluous-ink.livejournal.com]

As long as you hurled all the bubbles out of it on the slab/cut from a new piece from a block, you'll be fine.

Also, that is a spectacular first piece. For serious.

GOD I miss throwing things.

I'm going to go seethe with jealousy over here now. I haven't thrown in five years o my god.

[ink-n-imp.livejournal.com]

I mean, I'm CERTAIN I did, Jesse said the consistency of my clay felt correct, and I was kneading the HELL out of it.

Until I hold the finished product in my hands, I shall try to quash my hopes and dreams about it. *bites nails*


I already seriously miss throwing, and I've only done it once--I can't imagine doing it a lot and then not being able to do it for so long. It was just so soothing and cathartic, and a hell of a time warp too, I totally lost track of time while in the studio.

[toddpage.livejournal.com]

yersobadass.

[ink-n-imp.livejournal.com]

YTHXTHAR.

[kathynancygirl.livejournal.com]

We have a problem which needs to be fixed...Elinor doesn't know Monty Python...

[ink-n-imp.livejournal.com]

.........

I SMELL A MOVIE KNIGHT!!


I mean, NIGHT.

....OR DO I??

[l-loire.livejournal.com]

And then you had me, who was perfectly content to fling clay off the wheel. I like how my pic came out. You actually look like you're about to SING to your grail.

[ink-n-imp.livejournal.com]

Hehe, I'll I need is a shield, a sword and a knightly tunic and I think we have ourselves a Waterhouse!

[neo-ninja.livejournal.com]

I take credit. I just do.

[ink-n-imp.livejournal.com]

YOU WOULD.

[gaslightgallows]

Nella/Grail OTP?

[ink-n-imp.livejournal.com]

I WAS MEANT TO FIND/MAKE IT. IT WAS ORDAINED BY GOD.