[Nfb-krafters-korner] speakers and creative ideas

[River Woman]

Jewell,
I am sorry you had this bad experience. Only YOU can learn to center your 
own clay and the instructor should have been patient.  You should have only 
worked on centering and nothing else, by yourself with some instruction from 
her.  I used wo woek on centering for weeks at a time, and nothing else.  It 
takes a long time to learn to feel the clay and to get the steps down in 
your mind as you work. You will never learn how to make something on the 
wheel is someone else is touching it instead of YOU.  It is unerealistic to 
think you will acually be creating an object in  a few weeks - there is a 
very steep learning curve for people who can see it, and for us it is much 
longer and harder to learn. But, it is such a TACTILE art and you need not 
be able to see it at all as it is all done by TOUCH -

I was so lucky to have a patient teacher who understood that I needed to 
learn in my own way and work with me. She never touched anything of mine and 
she never tried to hurry me in any steps but allowed me to work on it by 
myself, with her helpful tips.

Lynda River Woman
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jewell Boll" <jjboll at excel.net>
To: "List for blind crafters and artists" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 8:15 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] speakers and creative ideas


>I would be very much interested in learning pottery.  I took pottery at the 
>local senior center.  Instructor was nice, but took over when the clay 
>became off center on the potter's wheel.  Wasn't given a chance to 
>understand how it feels when the clay is centered.  I was discouraged and 
>didn't go back.  Because it is such a tactile form of art, I would love to 
>learn how to do this.
>
> Jewell
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