recently i've finished up my beersteins (or so i think at the moment) and i'm thinking about my next project which will probably be goblets after the break! sooo.... yea! maybe it will be or maybe it wont. but heres a cool shaped goblet, which is conventient for my because many of my cups are this form.

so empty bowls was this wednesday, i think the even went quite well, i'm not sure how much money it brought in compared to last year, but by the time i left, we didnt have very many bowls left. so thats good!!

update on class work

today i scrubbed my shot glasses so they're looking good to be fired!

and i also glazed like twenty more bowls of mine for empty bowls:

oh and yesterday i threw a few things. two gonna be beersteins and one funky vase. so yeaahhh. here that is. the beersteins are for my concentration:

next concentration piece:s shotglasses:

these are some of the shotglasses i've been working on this week. i have 33 at the moment with 16 of them trimed. i think they're turning out pretty cool so far. anyways thats about it for this week

muuuugs.

i think i've finished cups at least for now, i know that i'll probably come back to them at some point because it would be nice to have a set of at least four that are nearly identical. so i'll see what i can do. but since monday i've been working on a few mugs to test out which styles i should make more of. anyways heres a picture of what i've been working on:

it would actually be really nice to get some feedback on which style you like the best so i can figure out which style i want to make more of

after cups.... mugs!

for my concentration i'm still perfecting my cup form but once i'm happy with my work i'm going to shift to mugs seeing as i have to have some of those done before the end of the month! anyways here are some mugs that i like for different reasons. My biggest concern is still figuring out how to make my favorite form and then texturing it. I'm sure a good handle will come after testing a few different styles.

more cups!

so today was the throwathon and i helped out from the end of 3rd period until the end of the event. i thought it went very well as far as the throwing. Trimming is going to be fun.. hah. psych. anyways, my post is about more cups! cups cups cups. i have been throwing cups this year to work on my cup form and after i master that i think that i will start adding more texture to the cups than just the throw lines. after i do textures on cups i think that i will make some mugs, but for the mean time. here's a picture of a cup with a cool texture that i might think about recreating in my own style.

cups and family project

i have finished with the greenware stage of my family project as of nearly two weeks ago, i have been waiting for them to dry and for a chance to toss them into the kiln. Also i have been throwing cups and those are nearly all dry now. I have to get those fired, but i enjoy working on my cup forms because they are fun, quick, and rewarding, and its not the end of the world if one of them breaks. anyways i was talking with jack and i think one thing that im going to try to do on most of my cups from now on is to leave the throw lines because its a neat and simple texture that shows style. heres some pictures!

assemblage piece

my assemblage turned out much better than i expected it would and although it was relatively fun i dont think that i'm going to do any more of them this year, and i'm super excited to get working on my concentration! i'm not sure what exactly i'm going to do for it but at the moment i'm throwing lots of cups and experimenting with different forms. anyways heres a picture of my assemblage:

more lidded vessels!

after doing the majority of the work on my family project that i made a series of lidded vessels for i think that i enjoy them and i would like to refine my forms and work a little bit more with them. essentially i want to combine my vase forms from last year, and adapt them a little bit so that they flow with a lid on. i was thinking something along the lines of this. and i really enjoy the colors of this pot, i'd like to see if i can get some glazes like this

Family project

right now i really don't have any ideas set in concrete about what i'm going to do for my family project. My favorite idea right now is to make a series of four lidded vessels all with the same style but each with something unique about them that would correlate to all of the members of my family. i was thinking as far as a basic form, something along the lines of this:

shocking art

for my shocking art piece i made a syringe out of nails, i thought it was pretty interesting and that it also made a statement.


now that we finally have more worktime in class, i'm still refining my cup shape and throwing the occasional vase. i'm excited to start working more on concentration pieces rather than breadth soon. however for the mean time we have a family oriented project to make out of clay, i have no idea what i want to do for that, but its a good time to start thinking!

cups/ tumblers

last class i threw three potential cup forms, right now i'm working on size and shape of these. i was using about 1.25 pounds of clay last class which seemed to be a little too big, at least for the shape i was going for, i'm not sure if i'm going to continue too far with that shape though. I definitely want to experiment with other cup/ tumbler forms, here are two that i would like to work with (basically a concave form as well as a convex form:

art retreat reflection

This year the art retreat was pretty cool. I really enjoyed the guest artist and her style of work! She made unique things with a flair of her own, and i enjoyed created things in her style. I may actually explore her style in the future and even perhaps put some pieces based off her work in my portfolio. I had a little more trouble with the Andy Goldsworthy porject this year than i did last year. I ended up making a sphere based sculpture out of sticks with a hole in it at the base of a tree. here's a picture:
This was my first attempt at this form and i think it was fairly successful. It really boggled me to see how much work went into the creation of these. After i photographed this piece i tore it down and attempted to create a better piece of the same style. unfortunately right now i dont have any pictures of that uploaded, but i will put one on my blog by next week. I was rushed on time to finish the second one, but i think it turned out better than the first. In the end it was a good experience and i would gladly do it again. The art retreat was a great way to kick off AP 3d this year and i'm really excited for the class and for creating a portfolio even better than last years.

main blog!

amy wants us to post a link to the main class blog, so here it is:

http://lakeridgeap3d1011.blogspot.com/

free time

so this week has been pretty sweet as far as art class, because we had guest artists don and cindy hoskisson come in and show us some stuff. i really like cindy's wheel thrown forms and dons creativity with glazes, lusters, and mixing colors with clay. i would like to experiment with some of their textures, patterns, and ideas. i threw an orb form a while back and was thinking of making a lid for it, but i never got around to it. anyways, heres the orb.

so i havent updated my blog in a while becase of our AP showcase and for the fact that i havent made anything new in a while. earlier this week i threw an orb form which i'm going to add on to, and last class i began a little handbuilding project for the first time in like two year, haha. well we'll see how that turns out.. anyways we have our AP bbq today! that should be really fun

hooray, woodfire!

so the woodfired stuff was unloaded last weekend and i had nine pieces in it! only two of my pieces had anything tip onto them and the other seven look awesome. so heres a couple of my favorites, and a quick note, ignore the crappy green pot that is off to the side...:

woodfiring last weekend and more stuff

last weekend was a woodfiring which was super awesome but unfortunately i couldnt stick around the whole time. today i glazed 6 or so pots that will hopefully be in my portfolio. three of which i used ilya's green glaze for the reduction kiln, and the others i glazed for a traditional kiln. this week i've been working on a form similar to the last one i posted pictures of, however this one is a mug for tolley! sorry i didnt take pictures of it, but yeah. too bad. haha. anyways i'm excited to see how the woodfire stuff turned out because i put 9 pieces in that!

as for a picture this week i have and older piece that i made and woodfired that i'm most likely going to put in my portfolio!

more textures!!!

so this week i threw and trimmed 6 pieces so far. i added texture to one of the pieces i made this week and here as usual are some pictures!

i think this texture is pretty cool, and i may do this on a few of the other pieces from this batch.

on the flipside, i have some bad news this week, that earlier this week one of the pitchers i made last week (the one with the cracked texture) someone else broke the handle off =( and today when i was adjusting pots inside my cabnet, my pitcher with no texture and the small handle tipped over and the lip broke, as well as the handle =( so i'm glad amy made me throw 4!!!

i'll definitely be making more pitchers in the future, because they're pretty fun to make and they look really cool!

crunch time and more textures!

Well its crunch time now, i have a month left to make something around ten new pieces! woo! andyays i whish i could have been able to take pictures of the pieces that i threw yesterday and the day before, however i couldnt because my phone was dead... anywayssince i cant show you the vases i threw and the pitchers i began, i'll show you another texture that i've been looking at!

i think that this tuexture would fit my forms very well, because many of them have a similar shape to this particular vessel.

here's another texture i would like to try

this reminds me of nature due to the.. shell forms? protruding from the slip.

more texture!

lately i've just been throwing pots and adding a texture to them and i've found myself putting the same texture on pots. for now this is okay, becuase some of my pots haven't turned out. but heres another texture i'd like to try!

some new ideas

i like this concept of creating textures on pots using slip. I may experiment with this soon, because i need to find some new textures. I think this style would work very well with the form of my pots, and make them very unique.

since i have been competing at the state skiing competition, i didnt have time to update my blog last week. so i'm doing it now!

i have been working on a vase with flattened sides (that i burnished) and the rounded parts that i added a texture to. so here it is

some ideas to come

i dont have any pictures of my pieces right now, so i found some vases with textures that i would like to experiment with. so here they are

this one is really cool and reminded me of matty's work, because of the flat sides.

and this one really reminds me of chris's work. however i would like to experiment with this look as well

the rock pot is finally finished! its not exactly what i intended when i started this project so i might make another one. but here it is

earlier this week i threw some vases, and at the moment only one has made itself into a concentration peice. i gave it a natural texture through the use of what appear to be cracks. I spent about an hour carving all of the lines into the pot. So here's two pictures of it

and heres a close up so you can see the texture a little better:

conentration ideas

Amy told me that i should look at some of Jeff Campana's work and i did. He throws pots, cuts them up when they are leather hard, then reassembles them. what he does is truly amazing and unique. here is a link to one of his pitchers and a blog featuring him.





http://plaincraft.blogspot.com/2009/02/plaincraft-favorites-jeff-campanas.html

and here's a picture of one of his mugs

I could use a concept similar to this, because his technique gives his pieces a unique texture. although they are smooth, the glaze builds up in the grooves and lines he has created. If i try to imitate this, i might just make grooves in the pots rather than cutting them apart due to the sake of time and a necessity to create a product.

Heres a picture of my dad with the poster i gave him at his office

i know that i was supposed to post this a while ago, but its better late than never!

i havent updated my blog in a while, so its about time i do this. in class i have been working on a vase with the texture of a rock wall or something like that. Here's a picture of it when it wasn't quite completed, but i finsished it up on friday

i kind of like how this turned out, but i still have to figure out what glaze i'm going to use to really make this texture apparent.

concentration in progress

my concentration is essentially different textures on wheel thrown forms. Here is an example of a pot that i threw earlier in the year as my texture was very simple.

Right now i'm trying to elaborate on different textures I could possibly recreate. My trip over winter break inspired a few, but i will need to explore them when i get a chance.