Wet/Dry Saturday

It was a day outside best for ducks and as a result, many potters came to the inside of Clayworks to play with the earth. I arrived at around lunchtime and almost immediately turned around and went out for lunch with Becky and John. We went to Lupie's Cafe, which is a Charlotte local favorite. When we arrived, Lupie was hard at work (the woman in the green shirt behind the counter). It is one of those hole-in-the-wall great homecooked food restaurants.

We were greeted by this and we waited to be seated. :) In what seemed like no time at all, we had food at the table and in no time at all, it disappeared. I ate pinto beans without onions and quickly learned from the two Charlotteans (is that a word?) that pinto beans with onions is a southern food, but not pinto beans without onions. Oh well... We talked and talked and Becky told us a bit about her trip to Sicily. She showed us these pottery shards. One piece looked like one of John's pots. Wonder how it got all the way to Sicily?
Time went by fast and we came back to Clayworks and slopped back through the rain and got into the dry inside. I began to work on making some slip out of phoenix clay. All that was needed was adding water to make it a clay slurpee mixture. Then, time to let it sit.

Once back and dry, we went our separate directions and got back to the clay. Above L-R are John, Kit and Becky. Kit was working on these. Earthen red clay with white slip and then underglaze. These are beautiful! She has a wonderful attention to detail.

Minke worked on her latest sculpture. Some limbs are definitely in the making.

Becky worked on her cave art doing all sorts of things to the surfaces.

Then I threw these five cups. Am not pleased with all of them, so I may not keep some. For many weeks I had thrown with only earthen red clay so phoenix clay was a big change. I'm getting back into it. Will make some more tomorrow. Put slip on these two. The one on the left needs more. Hmmm Will work on that tomorrow too.
All this happened on Pi/Pie Day. (3/14) John even brought a pie. Did you know it was Pi/Pie Day?