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i’ve got small bowls

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:22:34 +0000

I stopped by the Y tonight and did some glazing. ( decided to be productive after my post-work jog ).

I’ll stop by yet again tomorrow to really work during the open workshop and trim some more stuff, and snap a picture of my mug. i wasn’t able to put the detail on that i wanted to, sadly. it was bone dry when i stopped in tonight. ah well. next time.

just a quick ceramics update

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:53:30 +0000

I will be taking another course of ceramics , there’s just so much that I want to learn. Of course, I forgot my phone at home yesterday, so I didn’t have it with me to take pictures of my mug ( which i trimmed too thinly, and started to collapse before our teacher helped me bandaid it a little. ) It looks good now. I’m happy with the handle, and i put some white slip on it to see what that will do for the final product. I did realize a detail that i want to change on it. we’ll see if its possible for me to do that Thursday when I go into open workshop.

I also salvaged some saki cups out of the recycled clay. one of the students that isn’t coming back was just going to junk them. So I scavenged them so i can trim them this week.

My two bowls and mini saki cup are bisque fired, and waxed on the bottom, just need some time to glaze them. I know one bowl will be getting a glossy white lip treatment and a violite dunk. i don’t know what to do with the other one though. and the saki cup… so much to do. promise i’ll take pictures later this week.

i don’t watch oscars

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 03:40:10 +0000

i make pearler beads and watch Old School in my underwear.

copper red

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:02:49 +0000

so i had my first attempt at getting the copper red glaze to work… and it failed.
just ended up kind of a muddy color. there’s a little blush of red on the side, but its hard to see. such a nice plate otherwise.
tuesday was my last night to throw during class, all i managed to do was trim my saki cup, a second bowl, and throw a weird looking vase that’ll probably collapse as it dries ::shrug:: I’ll need to put in some extra time after hours, and maybe see about signing up for another class. its fun, but I worked out how much it is per class, and I don’t know if i can keep taking the class.

Bowls

admin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:56:11 +0000

so i got two of my press plates back from ceramics class. one’s an oribe ( green ) glaze, that i’d hoped would be more metallic and lustery, but i’m happy with anyway. the other is a curved press plate (?) dunked in a violite glaze. ( blue ).
more to come! i just glazed another one last week ( still firing in the kiln ) and I just trimmed a bowl, and threw a mug ( gonna be a coffee mug i figure now ). One of my first attempts at the mug kept falling apart, and eventually i gave up, now its going to be a small saki glass. lol.

Happy Valentine’s Day

admin — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 17:45:37 +0000

here’s an idea for a valentines day card. I didn’t have time to print them up, but you get the idea.

Etsy

admin — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 04:46:39 +0000

I guess I’ve finally opened an Etsy shop. Its small right now, just listing perler bead & cork coasters. but hopefully I’ll grow it some, and have my knitted jockstraps and drawings and prints available eventually.

Drawings

admin — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 03:56:01 +0000

I normally can’t post most of my erotic figure drawings, but these have been cut down and most of them are just suggestive, not explicit. So I thought I would put some up finally.

End of Sculpture

admin — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 03:27:18 +0000

So sculpture has ended, as a class. Next up is trying a little bit of Ceramics. seeing how that is starting in february. My standing pose statue has gone into the kiln, and my bust is done ( though what i’m going to do with the bust of a woman’s head, i’ve no idea ).

i’m still trying to find the right patina for the seated pose figure, to make it look like its rusting/aging copper.

I’ll get to take home the fired Bust and statue in early february when I go back for my new class.

Last Standing Pose

admin — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:23:48 +0000

Dec 1st ended up being the last day for the standing pose. scheduling got out of whack, and although its abrupt we brought our pieces to a finish. Here’s some images of how he looks before i started finishing him off and carving him to look more like some abstract wooden man and playing with proportions. The biggest quandary i found myself facing was whether or not to make him a ken-doll nude, or a fertility figure nude.