I spent all of my studio time in ceramics plugging away at my sculptures. The fatter and shorter piece is practically done and the taller blub will be done this weekend. On Monday I will recruit some strong friends of mine to help me move the pieces into the 7 foot kiln. There they will chill for a week wrapped up and then I will begin to slowly dry them out for about a week and a half aft
er that. Ideally I'd like to have them fired sometime in the beginning of December so I know whether
I need to build another tall one again or not (pray to god not). I have been making some mini mock ups pieces to do glaze tests on and today I will begin
another sculpture once the TMP kids leave the ceramics studio, which is my favorite time to be there. From this point one I will be teaming up with my friend Lauren who is also working
in clay (but for a different class) and we will be makin
g clay and firing together. This is good for
me because I need to know how to do these things
and I also don't want to fire any of my pieces with the TMP kids because I don't want it
to blow up on my stuff or vice-versa.
At this point I'm just ready to start something new and keep producing. I had a g
ood interaction with Janie and Amanda yesterday with my work which encourages me in many ways. Now it's time to grind. Here are some images of the pieces thus far as well as my little mock tests.
Oh yeah and the taller piece..... is taller than me!!! It's about five and a half feet. Hell yeah.
Drake, These look AWESOME. I like the ribbing (is that what you'd call it?) and the mouth at the top of the last one. Way to go lady, i'll give you a ring back real real soon.
ReplyDeleteThe second big one is my favorite too, especially the mouth. It's got a nice balance of similarity to and variation from the other, smaller pieces. And it seems squat and precarious at the same time, which is nice, though I imagine it's getting logistically tricky to cart around.
ReplyDeleteIt's hard to tell in the photos, but is that the surface texture you've settled on for those pieces? If so, I like it, The striations give a nice counterpoint to the creases in the form itself. And it has a nice organic feel. If not, well, keep that it mind.
I agree with Seth, I love that you left the huge wide mouth on the second one and decided not to go taller with it. But I had NO IDEA that you went that tall with the other one! It's enormous!! Very cool. Can't wait to see it fired! Good luck.
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