Sunday, May 22, 2011
BOYCC on the wind down
Today is the last day of BOYCC, and the show is sort of starting to roll, a bit late. The plan for the rest of the day is to finish up the CM Glaze stuff, and then head back to Pour Horse for lunch and a mold making workshop. On Friday, one of the workshops was to make a medallion and we'll be making simple molds of these medallions that we get to take home. I also did a china painting workshop that included some samples of paints, so I could take my mold and make some medallions and paint them. My medallion isn't something that I'd consider selling, but it certainly would be a nice giftie type thing for friends and family. I also made a pin and a tile in the china painting class.
This has been a lot of fun...the show is really de-emphasized.
I would love to see more of these immersion type weekends. I've toyed with doing a performance oriented thing, that would include a trip to the Horse Park of NJ for combined driving or something, but I have yet to work it out. I do wonder if the hobby is really ready to take this step. We constantly look for ways to grow, and focus so much on kids, and I am not sure that's the right place to look to the future. If it never rises about plopping a plastic horse on a table, those kids aren't sticking around anyway.
I'll likely ruminate on this more as I fly home tomorrow. And better pictures when I get home!
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This has been a lot of fun...the show is really de-emphasized.
I would love to see more of these immersion type weekends. I've toyed with doing a performance oriented thing, that would include a trip to the Horse Park of NJ for combined driving or something, but I have yet to work it out. I do wonder if the hobby is really ready to take this step. We constantly look for ways to grow, and focus so much on kids, and I am not sure that's the right place to look to the future. If it never rises about plopping a plastic horse on a table, those kids aren't sticking around anyway.
I'll likely ruminate on this more as I fly home tomorrow. And better pictures when I get home!
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Creative stuff from BOYCC
Saturday, May 21, 2011
Roundabout in resin
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Friday, May 20, 2011
Bring out your CHINAS!
I wrote the original post somewhere over Denver, impressing the hell out of my seat mates on Southwest 829 yesterday, but it apparently posted to an alternate dimension and is no longer available to me. Even the draft is gone!
So I'll recap.
I'm currently tucked into a very swanky resort in San Marcos, CA, very much on east coast time, waiting to start day 2 of the Bring Out Your Chinas Convention. When the concept for the event was announced, I was very excited and HAD to go. Yes, there is a show, but I keep forgetting its there, its so not the focus. What IS here is 4 days of china horse/hobby immersion. Workshops that will take you from sculpting to mold making to glazing, repairs. Lectures on china painting, European ceramics, and photography. And yeah, there is a show that is structurally a bit different than what is typically done, and tempting enough that I packed a dozen china horses (including a half dozen one of a kinds) into a plastic toolbox and flew cross country with them.
When I arrived yesterday, I was picked up at the airport and whisked away to the home of both Joan Berkwitz and Pour Horse, where participants were working on tiny bisque horses that they painted and detailed yesterday. Those horses will get fired this weekend and then go home with their creators. I wish I'd arrived in time to play, too, but there was ample time to visit and eat and hang out and do all that hobby stuff we never quite have the time for at Breyerfest, with its intensely dense schedule.
I am very much looking forward to today's schedule. The resort is gorgeous, and I'll have time to go jog and snag breakfast before the conference part begins today. I really think this sort of thing it where the hobby needs to start pointing itself--relying less on a show that is going to be confusing the the newbie and more on educating ourselves with our own experts who can take the non model world and interpret it to what we want to get done. We, as a group, tend to lean on the crutches provided by real horse activities that we often fail to see that what we do is unique unto itself and not quite like anything else. We should be celebrating this. BOYCC is doing just that.
More as the weekend rolls--I am hoping that I have my mobile set up so I can directly post grainy cell phone pics here as the real ones will have to wait until I get home to download them!
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So I'll recap.
I'm currently tucked into a very swanky resort in San Marcos, CA, very much on east coast time, waiting to start day 2 of the Bring Out Your Chinas Convention. When the concept for the event was announced, I was very excited and HAD to go. Yes, there is a show, but I keep forgetting its there, its so not the focus. What IS here is 4 days of china horse/hobby immersion. Workshops that will take you from sculpting to mold making to glazing, repairs. Lectures on china painting, European ceramics, and photography. And yeah, there is a show that is structurally a bit different than what is typically done, and tempting enough that I packed a dozen china horses (including a half dozen one of a kinds) into a plastic toolbox and flew cross country with them.
When I arrived yesterday, I was picked up at the airport and whisked away to the home of both Joan Berkwitz and Pour Horse, where participants were working on tiny bisque horses that they painted and detailed yesterday. Those horses will get fired this weekend and then go home with their creators. I wish I'd arrived in time to play, too, but there was ample time to visit and eat and hang out and do all that hobby stuff we never quite have the time for at Breyerfest, with its intensely dense schedule.
I am very much looking forward to today's schedule. The resort is gorgeous, and I'll have time to go jog and snag breakfast before the conference part begins today. I really think this sort of thing it where the hobby needs to start pointing itself--relying less on a show that is going to be confusing the the newbie and more on educating ourselves with our own experts who can take the non model world and interpret it to what we want to get done. We, as a group, tend to lean on the crutches provided by real horse activities that we often fail to see that what we do is unique unto itself and not quite like anything else. We should be celebrating this. BOYCC is doing just that.
More as the weekend rolls--I am hoping that I have my mobile set up so I can directly post grainy cell phone pics here as the real ones will have to wait until I get home to download them!
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