I really appreciated the movie “Chef” for it being so positive on life and living. The moment when he tells his son about how much he lives for and loves what he does is the moment that captures the spirit of the entire film – “Carl Casper: I may not do everything great in my life, […]
Rolled out an entire bags worth of Lyman’s red in anticipation of beginning the boxer. I’m also planning on starting a new shrine base and preparing for firing this week. Hope to achieve at least three builds this month, but traveling this weekend, and in two weeks will make these goals fairly difficult
It’s always amazing to me how fast I actually can achieve something once I put the thing in motion. Ive been meditating on this form for a while now, does some sketching, recently designed the templates in paper forms etc. Yesterday morning I spent about 15 minutes rolling out slabs for later effort, at end […]
Worked quickly on the facial features for my final swimmer. Sat quietly and soaked reveled in artworks of others, contemplated new directions and laid out the ground work for shrine development and a new “eve’ concept involving tree and apples. Felt good overall even though production was down this weekend, creativity way up. Just pretty […]
Swimmer one of three completed this weekend. Started a new corset form and fired two bisque and 1 glaze. Will aim to complete another swimmer this weekend, and finalize a corset form. Working on researching in the background as well. Started a texture and color sample sheet and started reading my Slips book . May […]
Pre-bisque fire test of the candles and how they smoke the form. Once bisqued I expect most of the carbon to disappear. this was really helpful because I can see how inconsistent the smoking of the form is. I may force the finished product to have a more balanced smoke effect by tilting some of […]
Almost forgot to vent these, I left them uncovered last night to dry, but thankfully this morning they were still wet enough to poke. Not certain about the finish here, and if the pedestand should be one piece. I guess it should be so I best cover again when I get home. Stopping by Granny’s […]
My first experience with a slip ball and it came out nice. The effect is to represent something akin to the set design from “Queen of the Night” in Amadeus, but also references the concept of stars and pearls. The Queen of the Ways represents a symbolic work that is the tragic collision of industry […]
I just crossed over that hump and am finally starting to get a flow around this development. Went out sketching on Sunday night at Cocoa Cinnamon cafe and finalize some of the details around this work. Still need to attach a head of course, and the detailing on this could take a week, but now that […]
Swimmer one of three completed this weekend. Started a new corset form and fired two bisque and 1 glaze. Will aim to complete another swimmer this weekend, and finalize a corset form. Working on researching in the background as well. Started a texture and color sample sheet and started reading my Slips book . May […]