Friday, July 15, 2016

Did you

 write it down?
I tell the students all the time to write down what they are doing.
Write it down I say as I work with them or pass by them in the glaze room.
Because, you will not remember what you did.
A few weeks back or more Mark sold one of my tiles  with the possibility of doing more for a bathroom. Cool, I said, which one I said?, and he showed me a picture, hummm, okay.

Yes, they wanted  more. I went to my notebook to see my notes.....
I have this one, I have that one, I wrote down that one.
No notes on this tile- none at all.
I went for the picture that Mark took and it looked very blue.
I started testing by the picture and going more blue and more blue and in the wrong direction.
Time to try something else.
I had them send me the tile.
OH!
Okay!
Now, we can get this party started!
Write it down, even if you are just playing with glazes and stains.....






Later!
M

7 comments:

Michèle Hastings said...

Very good advice. It's a habit that I have fallen out of :-(
Thank you for the reminder.

Melissa Rohrer said...

They look great. I have not developed the habit of consistent note taking and sometimes have reason to regret that lack.

Gary's third pottery blog said...

I am so bad about notes, I began just making test tiles for everything as notes instead…but that assumes I can look at the tile and know what I did ;)

cookingwithgas said...

Ha Gary, I do use a marker to write on the back of test after they come out. Then I have to figure out my short hand.

smartcat said...

Truer words were never spoke! I am now trying to include as much info as I can on the test itself. I am staring at some old stain color mix tests....good luck with that.....my notes are gone!
BTW love the tiles!

cookingwithgas said...

I'm having fun making tiles, thanks!

Linda Starr said...

I used to have a really good memory but any more there are a few times I have wished I had written what I did down, good advice.