Scholastic Photos

Here are three of the of the four projects i submitted to scholastic. It took me alot longer to upload them than i thought, but it hopefully i get some awards! Im also working on putting up a gallery on the blog... but im technology challenged so its slow going. This week i put handles on the three casserole dishes i did last week. I want to glaze them with falls creek shino.

Christmas

Christmas time is coming and my time for making presents is running out. I am making casserole dishes for christmas presents. So far i have made three (which is sadly probably im going to make). I also made a square casserole dish because my knob handled one broke! It all good though. Im not quite sure what glazes im going to use. I think i will glaze the christmas presents with falls creek shino. And also here is me putting up the art poster and empty bowls poster in river grove elementary.

Pressing On

So now that i have finished all of my project for december, i have been working on photographing and glazing. I made a new glaze called mellow yellow. I plan on using it on my round, tunnel-bottom dish. My knob handled dish just went in three kiln, but i still need to figure out what im going to glaze it with. Also, scholastic is coming up! So i need to edit and re-photograph some stuff (becuase i forgot to put a penny in the picture to show scale). But for glazing, i want to use earthy, warm, and comforting colors. Like red, orange, yellow, brown, and black. Here are some pots that i like the glaze of.

Almost Done

So now that i have settled on a concentration (serving platters), i have been chuggin along. I have one of my peices (the basket handled one) in the wood kiln. Tommorrow we are unloading it!... i hope it turns out ok. I finishe the knob handled one and a new one that i started yesterday. This time i used pendelton red instead of umpqua white. I was surprised about how much i liked the change. I really like handbuilidng and throwing with it (even though it is a bit gritty). All of my dishes will probably be made of this clay. Since we have so much school off, i just thought i would start early. So pretty much, i have no deadlines to really worry about. But what i do need to work on is photographing for scholastic art awards!

Starting

Here is a platter that i have started. It is for my concentration. It is going to have knob handles and some sort of texture. Yesterday I loaded the wood kiln. I was going to have my layered platter go in the firing, but it broke in the bisque kiln. So just my basket handled casserole dish and a large bowl went in. I need to remake the layered platter, which wont be hard, its just kindof a bummer. But i have learned from the past not to get too attached to your projects because there is always a chance they will break (especially when dealing with clay). But all in all, im just pumped for starting my concentration and glad i have a head start. Since Amy will be gone for second semester, there wont be any more wood firings. So i will be making some glazes. I want to use glazes that have tan, orange, red, brown, and black in them.

Platters

These are two platters I made. The one with the basket handles was originally going to be a casserole dish, but after i made the hanldes, i realized that i had cut the sides (so the dish is no longer usable for casseroles and such). I made the dish by throwing a bottomlesss cylinder then attaching it to a rolled out slab. The second platter is made out of layered pieces of clay. When i started making it, i wansn't quite sure if i liked it, but the more i work on it, the more i like it. I want to make some more platters and wood fire them (if there is enough room in the kiln). But making these got me thinking about my concentration. I really enjoy the mix of handbuilding and throwing. My ideas for my concentration are: plates, incongruity (the lack of appropriatness. ex. a hammer made out of clay or a umbrella made out of metal), or platters. hmmmm...

Found Object Art

I totally loved have diane come to our class! Her art is so interesting and I love that it takes normall trash and makes it pretty. I really like making this kind of art and I plan on doing some more. I made two projects during the time we had. Both of them turned out great (not to brag). My first one was the one with the numbers. I orinally had it so you could read the numbers. But then I flipped it because i didn't want the focus to be on the number 20. My second one surprised me alot. I did not expect it to turn out so good. I kindof didnt try as much but I ended up liking it more! The balloon thing on the bigger box is actually from a toilet. gross. but i guess thats why its called found art.

Plates

Over the summer i worked at Willowbrook art camp and there i got to teach kids how to throw and make baskets. It was great. But when i started running out of new things to throw, Missy (the ceramics teacher there) challenged me to make a plate. Ever since i made that first one, i was hooked. I LOVE making plates. I could make a hundred, and not get bored. Its kindof is guess, is my thing. These are a set of plates i made for my family. I originally was going to wood fire the, but then our wood firing got cancelled (well, most likely). So i think that i will make the coyote blue glaze or use blue-pink glaze. 

Family Inspired Project

New Mexico gave me alot of ideas for projects, so it was hard for me to decide what to do first. But i have decided to do three wall relects. I have never done wall relects before, so its a good challenge. When were getting our rental car, in new mexico, i saw these ingravings on the ceiling beams. The wall relects arent going to look exaclty like the pictures, i am just using the pictures as a general idea of what to do. I was born in Albuquerque and lived there for a few years. My parents went to collage there, met, and got married there (so thats how it ties to family)

New Mexico

This weekend in New Mexico is balloon fiesta and green chile season. And yes, it's a great reason to miss 3 days of school. I was born in Albuqurque, so it's also great visting my home land. I love how wild it is here; it's like you stepped into a time machine and went back 20 years. I have spent my days watching hot air balloons fill the sky and stuffing myself with green chiles (which are so good. we even brought a extra suitcase for taking home some roasted green chiles. hopefully its legal...). New Mexico is full of galleries. I found so many artists that have inspired me. Many of them dont have websites because they are local. I went to the manitou gallery, chuck jones gallery, the Peterson-Cody gallery, Houshang gallery, Georgia O'Keeffe museum, corrales bosque gallery, and way to many more. Anyways. Our next project is just to do anything you want (quality of course). I really want to do more handbuilding, because i mostly just throw pottery. A local new mexican artist called Elaine Fein does these awesome layered plates. She raku fired them, but since i plan on eating off them, i will do some other firing. I really want to do some cone 10 firing, i dunno if amy will approve. Also Hib Sabin does these cool animal head out off wood. I want to hand build these out of clay and possibly make them into lids for some pots. I also want to work with more organic and free form shapes. The list of ideas goes on... Here's list of the artists (who do have websites, sadly most don't) below.


Hib Sabin- http://manitougalleries.com/artists/Hib_Sabin/1
Kent Kraus- http://www.kentkrausstudio.com/FullsizedSculptures.htm
Casey Hankin- http://www.caseyhankin.com/about.html
Andy Goldschmidt- http://web.mac.com/bdensford/Gallery_website/Andy_Goldschmidt.html

Destruction

So I just finished spray painting the base and rim of my globe. When I started typing this, I looked down and realized that i got spray paint all over my dads computer. Then i had to get some acetone to clean it off, and now the computer reeks of it. Glad my dads not home... But anyway. I started on my shocking art piece today. But starting it got off on a rough note. I drove to home depot to get some spray paint.  Turns out you have to be 18 to buy spray paint (most dumb rule ever). So then i went to tap plastics to get a tube, which i was originally planning on being red, but they didnt have it in the width that i wanted. So my tube is now clear. But after all of that nonsense, im glad it happened because it made my project change, for the better. It was originally going to be a globe with a tube stuck through it. At the end of the tube was going to be the word hate. But after starting my project and thinking it through a bit more, I have decided that im going to spray the globe grey and the word is now destruction. I was considering red, but i feel like the color would be too literal and distracting. I choose grey to represent ash. There is going to be a small light underneath the tube, to light up the word destruction. I also feel soo sick which is a total bummer because the first football game it tonight. But thankfully yogurt is making me feel a bit better. My sister is the one in the picture. She helped me paint the rim of the globe.

Shocking Art

So our next project is to create shocking art. I'm thinking about doing something having to do with the unhealthy food in our country. I want to some how incorperate trans fat. But i just dont know how to do that.

Nature Art

My art project inspired by Andy Goldsworthy.

Retreat

I loved the retreat! The guest artist was so cool. I loved her style of pots and painting (even though she denied that fact that she was an amazing painter). I really connected with what she spoke about... How she said that you don't have to be original and think of something totally new. You just take what you know and love to do, and put your own spin on it. That really applied to me because this summer I was thinking about how i have to think of something new and fresh, when really I shoud do what I love. I also loved the work time after. I made a oil burner thing, which I'm pumped to use! I also got to know our group better. I was never quiet or shy around them in the first place. But I just got to know everybody better. BOB IT WAS AMAZING. When I got home, I actually invested in a quality Bop It myself. The food was muy bien. The natre art was fun. My fist one didnt fit the project requierments, so I made another. I actually ended up really likeing the final result, a stump with sticks coming out of it. The reteat made me even more exited for this year! Oh and the Last Unicorn was an experience...

Im obviously not a blogger.

Why in the in the heck is this blog so complicated? Well soon i will be putting up some pictures of my art! hopefully very soon. But yesterday i threw 10 plates and im planning on woodfiring them (which i have never done). We had summer weather for the retreat which was awsome! But know its pouring. Gross. Well after this i will be posting my reflections on the retreat.

New Blog

hello cyber world. this is my first post. oh la la.