I’ve been shutting my eyes and creating a lot of ideas lately behind the screen of my eyelids — and one that seems to have teeth jumped forward. I love the forms crafted by the shapes of these models deconstructed. So I will continue to put this forward. But the question is not so much […]
Last week I was in Aspen taking a China painting class with Paul Lewing and Julia Galloway. Paul literally wrote the book on China painting so needless to say I learned allot! Here is the work from this session. Best learning was how to paint with a pen onto ceramic glazed works.
Using photos from cristina cordova’s recommended figure site I printed out a bunch of different angles close to my final actual size and then work from this source. I still mucked up proportions and measurements, but through refining the form over and over again I am really close to having something that nearly matches the […]
Been a long time… Long long, long long time–since I posted here. So it’s Spring finally and I do think we’ll be looking at warm weather finally. So it’s time to dust the studio and come up with a direction or plan for my next show. I’ve been working on individual stacked sculptures all winter […]
The smoke turned out better than planned. It’s always a question before I start anything whether or not I can actually create the thing. So it was with the smoke. I put a dowling rod in the center to hold it, and it worked like a champ. I’m going to fire the sculpture with the […]
Just worked over the weekend on forwarding my fire gnome. Should be finished in another 3 to 5 hours. added the flame designs, want to do a little smoke bubble coming out of the mouth of the character and the top of the head will also have a little smoke stack. Started the cigarette holding […]
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 […]