ink_n_imp | Have you found YOUR Grail?

'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.

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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.

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.

Have you found YOUR Grail?

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