Hard at Work

Still hard at work and school these days but any free time I have (which is not much) is spent trying to expand my art.  Hard to do when I am moving 600 miles away to a new home and starting a new life with, I dare say, the man of my dreams.  Once everything has settled and I have a new studio set up I hope to bring you more pictures of my ceramic creations and share with you my artistic insights.  May all your days be happy ones.

The Artist without a Muse

It is never a good thing as an artist when you no longer have time to do that which you love.

Seeing is Believing

One artist I looked at recently is not a ceramic artist but a painter.  Her name is Yvonne Jacquette and she paints realistic looking ariel views of cities and towns.  I like her work because it is almost like a record of history because skylines and cities change from year to year.  Here is one of her paintings.

My work so far is still in progress and I hope to have a few pieces finished for Tuesday's crit session.  I am going to create an environment for my final piece in Dec and will be showing a few of the pieces I have created so far.  Hope you like them.

If This Guy Can Throw... You Can Too!

Work

This is a pot that I have been working on.  It (and others) were created using slip and paper.  I enjoy making them because it reminds me of being a kid and making paper maché balloons.

Glaze Recipe

Blue-Green / Copper Red Glaze (Cone 6, oxidation or reduction)

Talc  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 .30%

Whiting  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 14.29

Frit 3134 (Ferro)  .  .  . 13.33

Kona F-4 Feldspar . 46.16

Edgar Plastic Kaolin Flint  .  .  .  .  6.40

Flint ..................................16.52

Add: Tin Oxide  .  .  .  . 2.24

Zinc Oxide................4.37

Black Copper Oxide  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .1 .07%

Covering with clear glaze helps reduce burning out of red .

From Rick Malmgren, Ceramics Monthly, October 2000

Okay, it's not ceramic but, you must see!