keep on working

It is not easy being a weekend ceramist.. there is always a lot to do in two days.. Last weekend, I had a long list: Do some shopping, tidy up the house, meet with friends, do some more shopping for father's day, visit family and keep working on bottles project!
Besides, the weather was incredibly hot and my studio was like "hamam"..
Nevertheless, even under these hard conditions, I worked till 10:30 pm on sunday night and finished these 6 bottles!!
Their spouts are thrown and bodies are slab built.. slabs have been textured first, then the bottles are constructed with these heavily textured slabs when they were pretty wet...

100 bottles project

this time, I have thrown different spouts and bodies without measuring or even thinking about how they will look like when finished...
then, like a puzzle, I brought them together and made these ones..
they are smaller than the first two bottles.. around 15-20 cm height.. and right after I finished them, I realized that they look gorgeous when they are all together.. so, wouldn't be great if they were, for instance, 100 in total? ..each one is different than the other in some way?
I am still not certain if I could make it (since I am only potter/ceramic artist on weekends and it could take ages) or if it is a good idea (could be not as interesting as it sounds), but I will give it a try..
From now on, this is "100 bottles project".. if I could cope with..

work in progress - thrown & altered #1

I'm a bit tired of same techniques and similar surface finishes..I should try something new..
In the last few weeks, I have read some articles and watched videos on ceramics art daily website.. from Robin Hopper, Lana Wilson , Mitch Lions , etc.

Here is my test piece to try what I have learnt.. "extended and altered form" with some "decorating techniques".. it is not the end of the story, I will also try oxides and slips on it..but a promising start: different spout, textured surface, oval shape.. but yes, it is another bottle!

bottles

I could never be a person who could choose one path to follow... and always interested in many things at the same time. I used to admire people who specialize on one subject and be an expert on it. But now I think differently.. this enriches my life...

It is same about my ceramic works.. I cannot choose one technique, one surface design, one colour.. It changes constantly... I usually use slab building technique while constructing my sculptures. However, I love throwing, although I can hardly say that I am good at it... I still struggle.. But strange thing is whenever I sit in front of a throwing wheel with a lump of clay without any idea what I am going to make, it ends up as a bottle!