Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Butter Dish prototype

When you look at pottery at art festivals or galleries try to consider how many pieces didn't make it or didn't work before getting pieces good enough to put out in the world. This butter dish is one of about a dozen and it's the only one that has made it to the point of actually working. I've worked out many of the bugs, but I will probably still have to make another half dozen before I get them to the point that I can pump them out and put them out in the world and hope that someone will love it and want to put butter under it's lid. So really this butter dish should be priced at about $500, but it will probably be $40. Now $40 sounds like a lot for a butter dish, but if you go beyond just the materials and consider the hours spent an artist is getting about .10 an hour. So why do we do it? Well for me it's because I can't help myself. It's an addiction and more then anything I want someone to see what I make and feel the need to have it in there lives.

So my goals for this year include the ultimate butter dish and learning how to use etsy so I can sell stuff.

Namaste