Posts Tagged ‘studio’
Procrastination
Posted on: July 25, 2013
Catching up a little bit on some different projects. Hoping to get a firing done soon have a handful of sizable pieces but want to maybe get a couple more. I trimmed some the other day (see below) and also worked on painting a piece that has been years in the making. It was a piece that didn’t work out as plan and was in 4 parts and destined for the trash can, but we saved it hoping to piece it back together someday. In the end my parents liked the way it looked as “lawn art” so I have been painting it off and on (mostly off) for a while now. Two pieces down though now, maybe I will finish it this year.
I also checked out a newer book on throwing from the library which had some nice looking stuff in it. Will share more when I start cracking into it.
My etsy store too needed some fresh listings in it so I posted this one in there tonight. Keep an eye out for the other items pictured below to show up soon.
Now on to more updating!
In the works
Posted on: July 15, 2013
Was back in the studio again today my arms were up to it today. They had been pretty weak feeling since a recent checkup left me with bruises from them trying to draw blood. I still have some faint bruises but my arms don’t feel like limp noodles anymore. Which was good because I had a sizable amount of clay to work with and I was going for something big!
I threw two vessels today a small slender one and a large round one. Both were made using the clay that I began reconstituting weeks ago. I probably have enough in my bucket to start the process all over again. It was a little wet but still manageable on the wheel. I am going to make a plaster slab a little bit later tonight with some help that will help dry things out a little faster than just setting them on canvas. I could always grab a spare hair dryer but I have always found that way of speeding up the process to lead to some issues, like being too dry in one spot and leading to cracking.
Below I have pictures of the vessels I threw today and a pic of the clay spinning before I made anything of it. It’s a good before and after transformation.
Meh Day
Posted on: June 30, 2013
Tried to get in some more time in the studio today but the bad weather outside was harsh on my mood. I think I should have napped before hand. I did manage to clean up a bowl and add some texture and pattern with a Iron Slip which I think will pop once this is fired. Prefired colors are always pretty bland. I was trying to make some slab work things with different patterned sheets I have but the clay for the most part was too wet and wasn’t picking up the pattern well. The one I did get I draped over a brick to help keep a shape I wanted. Now its drying out a bit.
On a side note, my best friend who I have linked to here before is a great artist and I recently started setting him up a Society6 page where you can buy his work as high quality prints, t-shirts, phone cases, etc. Check Paul Lapusan out.
Holes, crisis adverted for now
Posted on: November 5, 2012
I took some pictures of the put together project I was working on last. I like the way the form turned out and the holes look carved into it. We will have to see how the pumice gel works out.
However, after I took these pictures the piece took a tumble after someone put something large and heavy on my table and it tipped over. A large section was totally broken into several small pieces. I have repaired it though! But since it was drying out and so dry adding water and fresher clay to it makes it a bit more unstable. I will continue checking on the little puzzle and see if it holds out and get it fired soon so this doesn’t happen again.
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Been fiddling around a bit with some different ways of doing things.
The first has been cutting into pottery all the way instead of sgrafitto with slip like I normally do. I have had a couple of failed attempts but think the new one is coming out okay. I have a picture below. I am still making like an amorphous blobby pattern with it but just hollowing out spaces in the form itself. I have also thrown a base to this piece since it is a bit short and I want to give it some height. The failed attempts mostly had to do with either the clay being too wet, or the cuts being too close together, or both!
I also am really liking pumice gel lately. I tried some out before on a set of clay earrings and really enjoyed the texture and the fact I can apply it to wet clay and fire it and it doesn’t burn out. I want to add it to some more pottery and have some stuff with that rough texture, I may add some to the base of the piece I mentioned above. However I have already been adding it to an encaustic piece I have been playing with. I have a picture of that below too. This piece will probably get some more of the light green added to it and I might add some clay beads to it hanging underneath, not sure yet still playing with it, I just know it’s not done yet.
Fire of glaze and new jewelry
Posted on: February 20, 2011
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I got some earring posts and some more jewelry made. One small batch is ready to go through the glaze fire now so soon maybe by the end of the month I will have a brand new product to show off, Clay Jewelry!! I also made a larger batch of stuff that is ready for the first round of firings. So far I have made a few rings, which hopefully will still fit one of my fingers after firing, some earrings to go on posts, and some pendants. I am still looking for some good premade cord necklaces for the pendants. I am fearful though that I may have made some of the loops too small on the first batch of pendants, hopefully they will still be okay for some sort of cord. I also made a new kind of plate to hold jewelry and whatnot all of which can be seen in the photos.
Now I am working on a couple other projects, not ready for sharing just yet. However, I also got some freshly glazed stuff out this past week and have already begun listing some of it on etsy. This includes the pitcher that belongs to this set and a small pink polka dotted blue bowl. I will have to redo the lid to the aqua jar as it had some problems with the slip cracking in the first firing and then the glossy coat of glaze did not help matters. Everything else should be up soon.
Here are some photos of the finished glazed stuff and the in progress jewelry.
Some End of the Year Work
Posted on: December 2, 2010
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As I have stated before I still use the studio at the college I attended even though I have graduated. I can run my own firings in the off seasons like winter break or summer vacation. However this week marks the end of this school semester so I am trying to get as much in those firings as possible and ready to go before Christmas. A lot of the work I had to do recently was glazing stuff that I have been making over the last couple months and just not glazing. I also have been making quite a few more teabowls. Most of the work is low fire which allows me to get a lot of colour in. I have been mixing colours and trying out some new patterns. I’d love to hear any thoughts on them. I have more glazing I have been getting done that does not have photos. Everything should be finished in this batch by the end of the weekend so be prepared for those photos and new listings on etsy. (Speaking of which there are new listings on etsy right now! www.deidreart.etsy.com)
Here are some in progress photos
And here is some of the recent tunes playing as I have been in studio.
Impacilla Carpisung – The Ting Tings Push [live] – Matchbox Twenty Online Songs – Blink 182 Are You Ready? – Creed Skeletons – Yeah Yeah Yeahs Cold Light – Yeah Yeah Yeahs Razor [live] – Foo Fighters Neighbors – The Academy Is Wish That I was There – Hanson Shiver – Motion City Soundtrack Mellow Fellow – B.O.B. Hard to Live in the City – Albert Hammond, Jr. You Give Love a Bad Name – Bon Jovi Kick, Push – Lupe Fiasco Joy Ride – The Killers Abracadabra – Sugar Ray Thru the Rhythm – 13th Floor Elevators The Burn – Matchbox Twenty Loose Lips – Kimya Dawson Do The Panic – Phantom Planet Walk Thru Hell- Say Anything New Again – Taking Back Sunday Cookie Jar – Gym Class Heroes Brand New Love – Serena Ryder Brother Love’s Traveling Salvation Show – Neil Diamond Must be the Moon – !!! Dizzy – Tabitha’s Secret Lost in Stereo – All Time Low My Moves are White – Cobra Starship Angie – Cobra Starship A Lifeless Ordinary – Motion City Soundtrack Waiting – The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus Leave a Message – A Day Away Pursuit of Happiness – Kid CudiOn a side note I got another message about being in another treasury hosted by whataboutphotos which can be seen here. This one is filled with red and green items and includes my Wrap Around vessel.
Back in the Studio
Posted on: November 14, 2010
After a bit of a break from being able to get into the studio when I wanted to, I have been heading back more regularly.
I have thrown another round of teabowls, these ones to looks more like a certain one that I swapped with someone who would like another. I think a couple of them just might work. It is hard for me to force the clay into something as I am usually more natural with it, but I think based on the pictures I have of the other one, and how I remember it that a couple of the ones I have recently thrown and trimmed will work out well. I have included pictures of the last batch of teabowls below.
I have also been sketching out some shapes for a new large slab/coil sculpture. I want to play with some ideas of openess, in the form of some open and closed off holes in the piece, a larger opening encircling a smaller one, etc. This will be a good project in the coming months when the studio is more empty and I can have the whole place to myself 🙂 I am selfish a bit when it comes to the studio 😉
There is also another carving project I have been working on that is turning out nicely, but I would like to get more carved away before photographing it. A few finished projects should be on etsy soon so keep checking!
Here is one of the playlists I listened to the other day in the studio
Good Girls Go to Heaven (Bad Girls go Everywhere) – Meatloaf Dig – Incubus Hate (I Really Don’t Like You) – Plain White T’s Fell In Love Without You (Acoustic) – Motion City Soundtrack Simple Kind of Life – No Doubt Halloween Americana- Everclear L.G. Fuad – Motion City Soundtrack The Modern Age – The Strokes In Da Club – 50 Cent Black and White People – Matchbox Twenty I’m So Crazy – Adam Richman These Streets – Paolo Nutini The Click – Good Charlotte Sweat the Battle Before the Battle Sweats You – Cute is What weAim For Stand Too Close – Motion City Soundtrack Vultures – John Mayer Capital H – Motion City Soundtrack In the End – Linkin Park (apparently it was a Motion City kind of day)and the pictures of the teabowls.
Mixing Glazes
Posted on: September 26, 2010
I have not done it in a while, but it has become apparent that I must mix some glazes. A clay mix I used that was laying around the studio begging for someone to use before drying up was called a B-Mix. I had thought it was low fire. However, I have now found out it is a cone 5 mid fire clay. I could still use my low fire glazes on it, but it has been a while since I mixed glazes. I really want to try out some new colours. So now I must go out and search for some that will work well at this temp. The clay body itself looks quite nice left white, and maybe some of will stay that way. I will have to run some test as well. When I have some colours chosen and tested I will be sure to post again with results!
These websites have some great recipes to try on variety of temps. And with names like, Floating Blue, or Seacrest Purple, I cannot wait to try some of them, even some of the other temps. I have plenty of work to test on.
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As promised, I have taken some more pictures for more listing, and possibly more treasuries and sales!
There are lots of different things that still had not been properly photographed including teabowls, little plates, cups, bowls, and other sculptural things. I am thinking another giveaway may happen soon, possibly on this blog, or hosted by another again. Updates as it happens! I have also been neglecting the studio lately, with vacations, and actual work being on extended hours, and the classes starting in the studio I use. However, I think I got a schedule down now that should be good for getting in there weekly again which means more fun updates of works in progress.
Here is a sampling of photos as a preview for what will soon be listed on Etsy. I had some fun and added some candies to some shots, which I think will be good for listing closer to Halloween!
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