latest finished work

bye bye hippo

Lately I’ve been working on a series of urns based on the narrative of whom or what could be contained inside. Here is a hippopotamus urn I’ve been working on, to clarify it is not an urn for a hippopotamus (I love hippos). The detail is a pattern made of “no diving” warning signs and the knob is a winged hourglass that symbolizes death and reminds the viewer that their time is coming (especially if you go swimming with hippos).

the forever pot

It’s always a good feeling to finish a project, especially this one, for some reason this pot took me forever to finish. Granted I do work extremely slow, but come on, I started it way back when Heath was my studio mate! Slowly but surely it started to fall behind on the priorities list (right after popping balloons) so I decided, after a long game of balloon popping, to buck up and finish this pot and what do you know 2 weeks later it’s done.

Two mugs and a bowl

A couple of mugs with a heavy textured pattern for the wood fire

And a bowl that I plan on making a mold from

the end.

Oh yeah, I have a blog

Considering that I was a stay at home dad by day and a part-time sales associate at the dollar tree by night this summer (don’t even think about stealing my movie idea Hollywood!) , I feel like what little time I spent at the studio was productive. I was able to make some molds and quite a few pots.

Here are some mugs, the cups are casts from a mold I made this summer and the handles are pulled and attached afterward. Another good thing about casting is I have plenty of opportunities to ruin the mugs with bad handles before I get it right, that is if I ever get it right.

Here is a crazy pitcher I made by taking two failed projects, combining them to make a third slightly less, but maybe shamefully more of a failed project, but at least I have something to show for all the time and effort put into it.

Spring semester 2011

Some finished work from this semester

Odd idea

One long night I was thinking of a way to make a left handed mug, don’t ask me why, I was very tired. But this is what I came up with, if you try to drink out of this mug with your right hand the drawer will slid out.

Sometimes you just have to try

Karen LaMonte

I was just looking at art and wanted to share what I found that I liked.

http://www.karenlamonte.com/

Finish it!

This is what I came up with for the exchange. I had a hard time dealing with high iron clay bodies so everything came out brown. Not what I expected, but it was a good learning experience and a fun project.

All right

OK it looks just like the old spout, but I can assure you it’s a new one. Lets hope this one does not crack.

Finished; or is it?

NO

I thought I was done with this ewer, but the spout cracked so I had to remove it and make a new one.

Study in form

I threw these with the intent to evolve the form. I was wondering if you could guess the order in which I threw them and which one if any you like best.

art swap

Well it’s time to blog and I don’t have much to blog about so here is a picture of the three works I got for the art swap. I’ve made a few changes already and hope no one minds, but if you do I don’t care.

neat work

Here is an artist I found surfing the web that I liked, so I thought I would share.

here is her website: http://www.mereterasmussen.com/

Star Wars

I know that this has nothing to do with ceramics, but its way to cool not to post!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R55e-uHQna0

First pot of the semester

I know most of you saw this the other day in class, but now I’m done working on it, and it’s always a nice feeling to finish something.