Snow time

This week in IP studio (and other times) I was in the ceramic studio working away. Right now I'm feeling good about the pieces I have, I'm in the process of finished the wet work with three of them. I am also in the midst of making a more middle sized creature to create a transition between the smaller and bigger works. I've done a surface experiment with washes and am trying to get it first asap, but it's hard because I want to cone 6 it and need other people to fire it with. I was going to with Saree but we can't anymore because we're firing two different clay bodies or something...

Anyways I had an idea of possibly using beeswax on some sections of my work. John has done that before on one of his pieces and it's create a great textured surface. I also think that if if was a clear wax, and used over some slips that I could create an ambiguous enough surface (kind of skin/human like) that it could incite more though within the viewer. I'm talking with John possibly tomorrow, maybe on Monday about how one goes about doing this.

This weekend I plan on starting two more medium sized pieces that have a more gestural form than the larger pieces. I'm referencing the sketches that I made last semester for some ideas on what to do. I'm pretty excited to have the pieces utilize the floor where they disappear under the ground and appear a little ways away. Tricks like these will make the forms appear to be bigger than they actually are.

I'm nervous about time, it's dwindling faster than I would like, especially since I'm going to need to have my wet work done a lot earlier than I thought...