day 26 through 30th

Okay, I know it's been a week. but I have been doing some art. I've been working on some ceramic tiles. they're not very exciting to look at. Not until they're fired and glazed. I've got a oiece for posting. Just a nude done in the water-oil patels. I've also been working on documenting my art. Not the most glamorous of artist activities but a very important part of artist business, so I'm going to post some of these as well. Ta-dah!

Day 25 working out a painting style

Here's my work for tonight. I've been trying to translate the work I do in clay into something 2-d. I carve stories, words and phrases into my clay body castings. Now I'm trying to develope a painting style that embraces the creativity that flows so easily in my sculpture. Here's a prelim sketch for a larger piece. I'm using my water soluable oil pastels, sharpie markers and charcoal.

And today, 24 I believe../..

Well, today I have been working with some clay and stencils today. I have been continuously deriving new ideas from the content I have been posting on this blog. I have received some good feedback from the birdcage posts and have decided to incorporate this into my clay work. Here are some of my first atempts. When they come out of the kiln I will post those as well. 

The top is a tile that has already been fired. I used hand drawn chalk glazes on it. The second is a test tile that I used some of my new cut stencils on. I used amaco undergalzes for it. At the bottom are some of the tiles.

day 23, saki set again

                                   

Okay, here's the final carving. I tried to keep it earthy. And I want to go with a natural glaze. Something that compliments the texture but still looks very refined. I'll have to run some tests. I hope the carafe purs well. the little shot glasses are called o'chokos (not spelled right) and I can't rmember the correct name for the little pitcher. I'll have to check that out.

day 22, saki set

Last night I started making a saki set. I recently got a job at a Japanese resturant and the decorations and ceramic ware has inspired me to start making ceramics again. I dedcided to start out with a saki set. i'll document the stages of developement with the final blogs being of the pieces fresh out of the kiln.I'm going to finish up the set tonight..

20 and 21

hello there, started a new job and have been rather busy. I'm uploading a few different works. One is some kind of petals or something that i did with water-soluable oil pastels. sounds like an oxymoron i know but they're pretty cool. like working with watercolors and pastels in one. The other one is another variation on the girl in the bird cage. I know that's a lot of playing with one piece, but there it is. I also did a couple of variations on the assorted marbles and here it is. check them out.                      

# 19 for my ma

My ma's been looking into tatto designs and this is one I've been working on for her. She used to sign her a name with a similar symbol and she wanted something with a dreamcatcher in it. So I combined the two. Here's the result.

I find that I really enjoy designing things for other people. I hope I can go to UNCC for graphic design courses.  

another day...18 i think

this piece is in reference to the art group I have recently joined, thought I'd do a series of little posters to represent the group. we're called assorted marbles b/c we all have different styles and mediums of artwork. there's five of us, hence the five marbles. so here's today's 

sometimes i roam around throug other blogs and sites; exploring what the rest of the world is doing with their internet worlds. turns out there are lots of people doing a painting a day and art every day and other very similar themes. many of them much better than my sad little attempts on this blog. but i will keep plugging along. after all, I never manage to give up.

day 17

Ok, I swear after tthis I will be posting only new work! But I ended up taking this piece into photoshop and playing around with it. so here are a few of the variations I came up with. Brand new work tomorrow!

Day 16 & 17

Okay, it's finally finished. This thing took way too long. Very tedious with the bars and chain links. All that detail was difficult with the chalk pastels. A different medium would have been more appropriate probably, or a much larger piece of paper. Tiny lines with chalk is pain. But here it is. I owe a drawing or two. Was pretty busy this weekend and didn't get anything up.

day 15

Okay, this is the point at in this piece. It's getting close to completion, very tedious working with all these lines so close. the woman still needs lots of detail work. Hard to do with chalk pastels at this size. Have started wroking some color pencils in there to help it out. See what you think.

days 13 and 14

hello, the past two days I have been embarking on the piece that started with sketches I have been doing for this blog. It took me quite a while to draw, lots of intricate lines and elipses. It's a 24"x18", most of my sketches have been about half that or smaller, so definitely more time consuming. I have it laid out on my living room floor, and crouching for hours while drawing is NOT ideal. I think every joint has locked up. But it's so much warmer in here by the stove than in my chilly studio.  The first one is just the drawing and the second is the start of the color. I realize I have to stop, it's 3 am and I should be in bed.