I'm still both painting and working with clay. Definitely choosing to play more and work less than in the past. As my clay/painting pendulum continues to swing, I'm at this moment leaning more toward painting than clay. As I often do, I have begun to burn out on clay for now. I still have my commissioned work and am using my pottery wheel more all the time in my sculptures. I have reached a point with my large dog, cat, and rooster sculptures that I can throw almost all the body parts (entire core of the animal, legs, and head) on the wheel and, with a lot of "finessing" assemble them all into a pretty good dog sculpture. I still build the tail, ears, face parts, etc., but all the rest is thrown and assembled. I won't say it's much easier, but at least it's different and thus more enjoyable.
