I have thrown many pieces, including my sculptures, but I am back to my same fear from last semester, I am missing something or something will not go right. My sculptures are all done but one, but because of their size, I am now worried that I won’t have time to get them fired and […]
It is 0330, I should be asleep right now, but as much as a try, I can’t fall asleep, all of these thoughts are converging on my tiny brain at once. With such a short time remaining (14 days) it is becoming more of a challenge to keep these thoughts under control. I am going […]
Tweedy has done something that she has never been known to do in the recent history of the studio, she moved a deadline. Being a few projects away from being done, I am glad that I now have closer to 20 days to get finished instead of the 7 previously. Task Old Deadline New Deadline […]
My guild is having a pottery show/sale.
Today I embarked on one of my last truly “new” objectives in ceramics, sculpture. Part of the ceramics curriculum for this semester is wheel thrown sculptural forms. I have never done anything for the sake of sculpture, I have always done functional forms. The assignment is a series of 6 serial sculptures, of at least […]
A look at my pieces from the previous week. [click image for full-size version to see magnitude]
I have attained my tallest height yet in ceramic work, this piece stands at 34″ in height.
All of my UNCC ceramics work, plus a set of 27 bowls I made at home, have now been posted to my ceramics website at http://www.claymentality.net/index.php?pagekey=work&RecordDate=2006-12-17 There are 148 pieces from UNCC this semester.
In the ceramic studio glaze room I have somehow managed to go from being assigned one shelf, to now using three shelves. I have always had the shelf I was assigned, but a few days ago I claimed another shelf that wasn’t used (a top shelf) for my tall stuff and then today I find […]
On June 7, 2006 I opened a new blog on my ceramics website. I failed to originally mention it here, consider this your announcement. The blog is of a more technical nature and is located at http://www.claymentality.net/blog. The new blog will contain the more technical aspects of my ceramic work, but I intend to still […]