Saturday, May 30, 2009

small obsessions

Why does making a thing become obsessive? Why do people fall into patterns of focusing too intently on making or doing something that seems to have no point or purpose? Although it took only a few innings to crochet, I spent most of the morning dyeing and painting it. Once it was nearly dry I treated it with acrylic medium so now it's stiff. If you click on the picture you can see the metallic powder that was mixed into the glaze. Maybe I should take up pottery. You can't see it over the edge but there's a penny in there with maybe room for three more to cover the bottom of this vessel. But there's nothing like some freshly hatched color to bring me to my senses.

3 comments:

Penny said...

Yummy!!Oh, I hope next weekend I can do the same.

Leslie said...

Oh, I like what you did to that little vessel. Kewlio!

jude said...

i love the cross between the fiber and pottery. the dye made it so clay like.