Well, it's been a long while but I'm almost done building the pottery shop and studio. It's amazing what a deadline will do to spur action. Not that I didn't want to finish the project, far from it, but when it's something for myself, it's easy to push it to the back burner where it gets overlooked. The reason I wanted to finish it is twofold. One is so that I can display it at the Shearwater Hobby show coming up in about three weeks and the other is so that I can display it at the Guild School where I've won a scholarship to study there in June. It's also a wonderful way to display all the pottery pieces that I saved just for myself. I even put in my very earliest pieces and it's astounding to see the difference between then and now.
I had meant to post the intermediary steps to completing this project but though I did post them to Facebook, I didn't do it here. There's only so much one can do. Completing the other two sides with the cursed egg carton stones was a chore and a half and it's something I won't be doing again anytime soon. My fingers were so sore from tearing up cardboard. A blind sample was used to do the vertical siding on the dormer. I ran out of material so that allowed a "design opportunity" below the window. This I filled in with a mosaic of broken pottery bits, to scale of course!
I added a base to accommodate the exterior stair so it made sense to wrap it around the front where I put in a step for the front door and seeing as I had them, I placed three stoneware planters under the window.
I had meant to post the intermediary steps to completing this project but though I did post them to Facebook, I didn't do it here. There's only so much one can do. Completing the other two sides with the cursed egg carton stones was a chore and a half and it's something I won't be doing again anytime soon. My fingers were so sore from tearing up cardboard. A blind sample was used to do the vertical siding on the dormer. I ran out of material so that allowed a "design opportunity" below the window. This I filled in with a mosaic of broken pottery bits, to scale of course!
I added a base to accommodate the exterior stair so it made sense to wrap it around the front where I put in a step for the front door and seeing as I had them, I placed three stoneware planters under the window.
Most of the exterior is done. It's just a matter of adding signage mostly (which I just found--I'd put it in a "safe place"). The interior was surprisingly quick. I had an article that Joanne Swanson had written with a tutorial on building a pottery studio so I used it to create some of the items in the studio including the kiln and the potter's wheel. The rest I had to adjust to fit my small space.