Expert Clay Categories Creative Life is the name of one of the categories here at Expert Clay. The content on this site is broken into three categories because there is more to a potter than making pottery. Making pots is obviously part of every potter’s life. Many also try to make a living by setting […]
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This is the 5th article in the series Make The Most of Your Time in the Pottery Studio. Have you ever been “in the zone” or “in a groove” or just plain working at max efficiency? Sometimes you hear how athletes are “in the zone” and performing at their best level. Does that just happen?
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Why Do I Need a Plan? Sometimes, even when I have everything organized, have the right tools, and there are no other distractions… I still don’t get much accomplished. This usually happens when I don’t have a plan for my studio time.
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This is post number 3 in our series: Make the Most of Your Time in the Pottery Studio. You wouldn’t try to clean a mansion with a toothbrush or harvest a field with a pair of scissors. In the same way, you don’t want to spend a bunch of extra time doing something because you’re
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We decided earlier that we all want to be more efficient in the pottery studio. Here we will take a look our second step to make the most of our time: minimizing distractions. (If you missed it, you can read about the first step: Staying Organized.) For most of us, it is pretty obvious that
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Raise your hand if you want to be more productive in the pottery studio… Okay, most of us? In this article we will see how a little organization can do just that. It is the first part of the series “Make the Most of Your Time in the Pottery Studio.”
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Are you always looking for extra time to work with clay? Between, my day job, spending time with my family, taking care of the business, and trying to get just enough sleep to stay functional, I used to feel like I never had enough time to make pots. But what if I told you that
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