The (photo heavy) Blog of a Student Potter: I'm beat (no photos, too busy to take any)

Sunday, November 9, 2008

I'm beat (no photos, too busy to take any)

Just got done with a marathon glaze night, still have about 2 hours of work left to finish this round of glaze tests/pieces for the student show(if the glazes turn out correctly, I'll be submitting at least 1 crystal piece for the show)... Need to be in there first thing in the morning because I HAVE to get that kiln firing no later than 0800est or I won't have time to finish things for my presentation on Thursday... And I need to get more diamond bits for the dremmel...

Had a disaster in the reduction kiln, not sure what happened but this is why I'm not crazy about that beast.. Bad things always happen... Always...

And yes brian, I did clean up my mess...

Edit: mmm CMC gum gel...

-- Post From My iPhone

2 comments:

brian said...: This is a great post - I especially like this part "And yes brian, I did clean up my mess..." ahhh, music to my ears!

always glad to see so many people working in the studio.

keep makin' art.
Prof. Brian; November 10, 2008 at 7:45 AM
Fiyero said...: i always clean up after myself... it may not be right away, but i always clean up after myself...; November 10, 2008 at 9:57 AM

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I have been an artist in some form for the better part of my life. But then again, haven't we all?

I started making art after my grandmother taught me how to crochet when I was 7. That is the spark that I have been carrying throughout my career as an artist.

I continued making art with fiber, thread, yarn, and whatever I could find to create with until I entered high school. That marked the first medium change in my arts that I can recall. This new medium was music. I was well accomplished, playing 4 instruments by the time I graduated high school. While I was playing music though, my visual art took a back burner.

I continued to make art with fiber, but was not able to as much as I would have liked. When I decided to return home from Western Kentucky University, my art had changed a second time. This time it was to web design, creating interactive graphic sites.

As I began school at Indiana University Southeast, I was drawn first to graphic design, then printmaking as concentrations. After taking a ceramics class (my first ever I might add) I was instantly hooked. I spent many nights looking at glaze formulas on the internet and looking for things to try. My biggest accomplishment thus far in my undergraduate career has been my success with crystal glazes. It gives me a stepping stone to add a more unique quality to something that might otherwise not be visually appealing.

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Sunday, November 9, 2008

I'm beat (no photos, too busy to take any)

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