Archive for November, 2007
November 23, 2007 at 4:05 pm · Filed under events, future projects
I’m fifteen projects behind and have my first holiday-show-event this Thursday night and I took the time off to drive to Indiana today to pick up a home-made slab roller that I had won off of eBay a week ago.
I had toyed with the idea of trying to make one of my own for some time, but finally conceded that this one would be at least as well made as anything I might come up with. And the price was right, especially split between many ceramicists at the studio.
Sometime soon perhaps I will be making tiles? I’m not sure what projects I might take on that involve slabs, but I am feeling urges toward ceramic work more and more. Bowls? More handbuilding? The frogs that I keep mentioning obliquely but have yet to manifest?
November 21, 2007 at 12:59 pm · Filed under works
It’s not the most amazing.
It’s not the best realization of an idea.
It’s not super colorful or inventive.
But this one is for me.
That alone is such a rare thing.
Go me.
November 14, 2007 at 7:02 pm · Filed under works
I’ll have more/better photos of my Greek friend up on flickr maybe Friday. The days are indeed full, especially when you’re trying to kick so much ass.
November 7, 2007 at 6:34 pm · Filed under future projects, works
I stopped after several hours of dotting in wax because it occurred to me that I had no idea if this whole crazy idea was going to work, so I finished off the top of the head only, and then threw it in a dye bath. After boiling it out, the resulting forehead and hair look pretty damn similar to the man in question. Picking an icon of a forehead didn’t hurt. I’m pretty pleased with the results, I have to say. It’s being added to the selections that will be available at this years holiday shows. More info to come. Exciting times.
November 5, 2007 at 1:14 pm · Filed under events, inspiration
I didn’t make it to the SOFA show over the weekend, but I did make it to an opening at DVA Gallery, so I guess I don’t feel too bad. It doesn’t hurt that the DVA show was huge and filled with equally huge awesomeness. And I had the distinct pleasure, nay, HONOR, of looking at an actual Katy Horan painting. Suffice to say it looked pretty awesome. Have I mentioned awesome?
It was no surprise that the painting looked far different from the prints I own, as well as looking at images online. A failure of summation of this difference might begin by saying that the painting looked ‘warm’. A failure of my bank account handing led to me not being able to lay down and make a purchase of it then and there. It would be an excellent dream to own an actual Horan.
Sigh.
After all the gushing though, please allow me to say that the opening showed me again how far I need to go to kick serious ass. I still do not understand how it is that I will get there. I do not understand if anyone will ever be able to look at what I do, on a tshirt, and have the same level of feelings I was having. I’d settle for love or disgust too. Just to feel something strongly.
