Saturday, November 10, 2018

THE NEW HAT



I loved this precariously balanced sculpture but something was missing for me....She needed a headdress to be complete. Even though she was already fired and finished, I was able to add a pieces of clay (this is paper clay, remember) and then refire the whole piece and refinish it ...voilla!

Saturday, August 11, 2018

VARIATIONS ON A THEME

 

 

I am preparing for a workshop and I put together a sheet of images so we could talk about the various ways I finish a piece. I realized that iron oxide is the magic ingredient. I use it over underglazes and under opaque and transparent paints...
I now have a whole vocabulary of effects based on this noxious stuff. I want to get away from it, but I'm too in love with what it can do

Wednesday, May 16, 2018

BEGINNING WITH AN IDEA

Images come on go...the best ones repeat until I finally find a way to sculpt them. this one is about clouds. how they form, rising as a great mist from the massive forests of the Pacific NorthWest.
First came the sketches...looking for the eventual volume of the cloud that had, now, taken on the human (god-like) shape. Moving into clay and finally finding a finish that expressed the misty quality...her name...NIMBUS