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#91 Adding Your Life into Your Pottery
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On this epsiode of Shaping Your Pottery I talk about how you can add things from your life to your pottery
You will learn the best tips to start incorporating your personal life into your pottery
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Introduction to Pottery Style Guide
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Hey, real quick before we get started. Before you can actually find your voice with your pottery, you have to find out what you actually like to make with your pottery. That's why I created a free quick start guide to help you do just that. Go to shapingyourpottery.com to get your free quick start guide. I'll see you in there.
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If you love pottery and want to take your skills to the next level, you're in the right place. Find your own pottery style right here on Shaping Your Pottery with Nick Torres. Let's get started.
Incorporating Life into Pottery
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What is up, everybody? It's Nick Torres here. And in this episode of Shaping Your Pottery, I'm going to be talking about how you can incorporate things from your life and add it to your pottery. So you see, I just had a really great interview with Betsy Morningstar.
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And one of the things that really stood out to me with this interview was that Betsy writes down pretty much everything that happens in her life. And then not only that she incorporates what she writes down from her life into her pottery.
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While her pottery is a little bit easier to do that with because it's literally lined paper pottery, but the concepts are still the same. How can you start incorporating something that happens in your life into your pottery?
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How can you do that? Well, let's talk about that for a second. You see, we all have things in our lives that either stand out to us or that just kind of happen to us frequently. What if instead of making the typical mug or vase where you are just making something that looks kind of like what almost everybody else makes, what if you tried incorporating something from your own life?
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You see, what Betsy does with her pottery is that things that she hears that she thinks are really meaningful to her, she'll write it down and she'll write that sentence onto her pottery.
The Art of Being Present in Pottery
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And that is really, really cool because you're being more present about your pottery. You're being present about just your whole life because you're writing it down and then you're adding it to your pottery.
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What if you guys started doing the same thing? Now, you don't have to do exactly what Betsy's doing where she's doing line paper pottery and she's writing down what she hears throughout the day and what her experiences are. But for you, you could take something that you really like.
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Personal Passions in Pottery Design
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Maybe you like Star Wars or maybe you like just superheroes or maybe you like sports. How can you add these things that you like from your life and how can you add it to your pottery? Maybe if you like sports, let's say you like football.
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What if you made a football mug? You made a mug that looks like a football, or maybe you add a person's jersey to it. Could you imagine the possibilities you will have because how unique your pottery looks like just by adding something that you like outside of pottery as well? These things are what is gonna help you discover your own voice by adding in things that you like outside of pottery into your own pottery now.
Finding Your Unique Pottery Voice
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Let's say you like making, you like cooking. Let's say you like cooking. What if you made a straight up pan, a pan that you could cook out of with your pottery? Simple enough, right? Or maybe you made a mug that looks like a certain dish that you like or something that is really tasty to you, like a pizza maybe.
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What if you just started thinking about in terms of that way instead of making the traditional pottery?
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If you can get out of your comfort zone and start adding in things from your life that you like, then you can start developing your voice a lot faster and you're gonna be able to distinguish, be distinguished a lot better compared to someone that doesn't have unique voice, someone that isn't incorporating what they like from outside of pottery into their pottery.
Listener Engagement and Feedback
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So this is my final question to you. How can you
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add what you like outside of pottery into your pottery. Think about that for a second and let me know how you can try to start incorporating that. I would love to hear from you guys. Thanks for listening to this episode of Shaping Your Pottery. If you have questions about developing your voice or just pottery questions in general, send them to me my way. Go to shapingyourpottery.com forward slash contact to send me your questions.