March 31, 2010

El Sucko on my presentation.....

dont know what was wrong with me....I really had a stronger presentation that that. *sigh* Pushing through it... live, learn, move on.

Had a great committee meeting with my painting department. Really good support...really great conversation about my work. Great ideas moving forward. All good stuff.

I'm excited about being able to work today while everyone is away in Philly. Good time to get working.

March 28, 2010

working on my forms in ceramics .......thinking about containers.... something that "holds" a memory...something that relates to the images I paint on the outside. I really want to make more "interesting" more "complicated" forms... I don't know what that looks like right now. I'm intrigued by a box like form....trying to break away from the cylinders or the traditional forms. I like skewed forms too... I just don't know how to make them, yet. I've been playing with it etc. the past two days.... now its time to go back to my painting studio. I've been wanting to push my concept within my paintings even further. I know what I want them to look like ....I just don't know how to execute it .....talking about it I know is not going to get any progress done. I just need to do it. Why do I hesitate so much? I don't like that quality in myself. *sigh*

March 16, 2010

Yesterday was Christmas time when I opened the kiln!!!!

I LOVE....did I mention... I LOVE how the glazes worked!!!!

My forms need work for sure.... I need to add more colors to my glaze palette.... but I love the value structure that I was able to obtain with every stroke of the brush. The glazes I'm using work very much like watercolors.

It was a good day indeed.

March 13, 2010

We went to the Albright Knox last night....Fridays are free. I am always amazed and mesmerized by the amount of talent and creativity that I acquire when I go to a museum. First, I am always inspired by the concepts that each artist is trying to convey. There is a story behind every piece. If the art could talk....Second, I always wonder if we didn't have museums where would all this art be/go?
In regards to the art talking, I know in my own body of work it would have so much to say. Each painting .....each piece of ceramics is a piece of me. I always new I was giving of myself each time I created something....I never new just how much. This series of 25 paintings made me dig deeper into my phyche than I was ever willing to allow someone to see. It is "easier" to paint myself nude than paint these memories of my brothers death. These last two I just "finished" came so easy that it scared me, which led me to ask the questiong.....Does a painting or any other art piece have to be difficult in the creation process to be "good" or relevant? I sit here and look at them and quickly answer, "No!"

March 12, 2010

So far so good! Another kiln being fired right now....if all continues to go well, my plan of being "done" this mon. will come true.

I'm in my painting studio right now working....I missed my paintings. I'm excited to work....*singing* .... we'll have a barrel of fun!

March 10, 2010

I feel like I work and work and get nothing done. Well, not nothing....but just not a lot. I haven't touched my paintings in over a week. I've been working on my ceramics everyday and thinking about my work. If all goes well...I will have pieces painted on for monday. *crossing fingers* *singing* roll out the barrel......will have a barrel of fun.....