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.