Thursday, February 26, 2009
So far this is about a 10 lb. bowl.
Wesley's band was at the house while I was coiling, making T shirts for a gig on Saturday. They are doing a benefit concert for a friend who is raising money to go to Mawali for a mission trip. The shirts are really great. Wes made some stencils and some lino cut stamps and they spray painted them until around 8pm. Then I fed them and sent them on their way. I love having boys in the house, but man, can they eat!
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
The Real Thing
Sunday, February 22, 2009
RAKU
Remember the wood craved butterfly I got for Christmas? This is going to make a great tile
Pinch pots I made last summer, finally fired them. This is a black Raku glaze and is sooo nice.
This looks a lot better in person, man these pieces were hard to shoot. Gerry is not going to like this.......
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Vases
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Dakmas
I read this somewhere and liked it......................
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Vases
The face was made from a ceramic mold that I got on my trip to Asheboro with Barbara McKenzie, when we bought all of those 60's molds.
I'm thinking that I would like to make some bottles and jugs in the style of the old Seagrove jugs and Raku them. That could be very cool.
Monday, February 16, 2009
Photojournalist wrecks helicopter (not really)
The only thing that kept my mind off of worrying was to get on the wheel and try to center some clay.
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Roman Candle
Roman Candle "Eden Was A Garden" from Lake Fever Sessions on Vimeo.
Friday, February 13, 2009
Hand Building
I've been in the studio for the past few days working on some demo samples for my hand building class at the ArtsCenter. I have a great class, I love seeing what they create and how they interpret the basic techniques I show them. We are going to talk about pieces we like and use them for inspiration to make our own piece. My very, very favorite plate is below. I could never throw one like Michael Kline and certainly can't recreate his brush work, but I used this plate for an example of how to find inspiration from something that you really like. This one was a slab that I put on a hump mold and then added slip with a little scraffito. I'll keep this one for myself so it's not out there in the world as a blatant rip off of MK!
This was a slab and coil construction bowl. I like coil bowls, they have a really unique feel to them. I also like leaving some of the marks from my construction like below around the coiled foot.
As you can see, it is getting late and I have been working all day, so the bottle will be finished up tomorrow. This is a coil bottle and I have a mold of an old ladies head to attach. It's about 16 inches right now. This is going to be one of the first pieces for my Raku kiln. I haven't done any hand building in a while and when I do I get obsessed with it. I get so focused and nearly in a trance building up coils. I find hand building much less stressful than throwing. When I throw, I forget to breath and find myself in contorted positions and frustrated a good bit of the time. I think I may do more hand building and just use my wheel as a means to an end. Oh well, I 'm tired and I'm dirty, so it's off for a glass of wine, some dinner, bath and bed. Buenas Noches!
Monday, February 9, 2009
What's going on
Pallet jacks are very cool! $15 dollar rental for 4 hours, not bad.
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Forever Young
May God bless and keep you always
May your wishes all come true
May you always do for others
And let others do for you
May you build a ladder to the stars
And climb on every rung
May you stay forever young
Forever young, forever young
May you stay forever young.
May your hands always be busy
May your feet always be swift
May you have a strong foundation
When the winds of changes shift
May your heart always be joyful
And may your song always be sung
May you stay forever young
Forever young, forever young
May you stay forever young.
___________Bob Dylan
peace, everybody
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Friday, February 6, 2009
Full Moon mania
6th - 7th February 2009 This sure seemed to be going on around me today, wish I had stayed home...... With just two or three days to go before the Full Moon tensions are running high with greatly increased nervous tension and anxiety. Under these circumstances there will be a highly strung, impatient, and at times intensely irritating mood atmosphere. Added to this all problems may appear magnified or thrown out of all proportion, and this will inevitably cloud judgement when it comes to finding solutions. As with any pre Full Moon environment there will also be increased apprehension and anxiety that could make this period prone to nervous episodes, needless worry or panic attacks in those vulnerable to such things. This present alert period also sees increased aggression or a confrontational attitude in which arguments and contentious situations are likely to arise on the merest pretext. Indeed where disagreements do occur these are likely to be of a highly volatile nature in which there will be little restraint in what is said or done. In fact this mood can store up considerable animosity and resentment and although not all of these feelings will be expressed or articulated there is still likely to be a simmering kind of anger that eventually will find an extremely vocal or violent element of expression. |
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Bruce
Later.....never mind, the line up for Bonnaro is out and B.S. is the headliner band. Guess our vacation is going to be in Tenn. this year!
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
My men helping out
So thanks to Gerry for taking his one day off in eight straight days of working at the Super Bowl to help me lift ten bags of sand, ten bags of drainage rock and 24 pavers. Not to mention all the dirt we dug out to level this crazy lot. Now where are the big men that can lift even heavier stuff!