Inspiration for Makenna and all!

Emily Schroeder

Kristen Kieffer

 

A. Blair Clemo

More of the exhibition Breakfast can be found at the Clay Studio

Workshop with Shannon Sullivan

Great day and lots of knowledge gained. Remember to visit the show at Eastfield and see her work in person plus check out her website. Include a response in your sketchbooks for extra credit.

For Larry Paul and everyone else too!

Craft in America on PBS
Click here for full episode of Episode XIII: Service
Documenting craft and the military and the power of the handmade to inspire and heal. Featuring papermaker Pam DeLuco, saddler Eugene Burks Jr., and ceramic artists Ehren Tool, Judas Recendez and Peter Voulkos.

Sneak peek final project option 2!

Kelli Sinner

I'll update this over the weekend and your research and ideas will be due Thursday Nov 6th at which time I'll give a power point to inspire and we'll do a small in class project. Remember your busts are due Tuesday at the start of class and since we'll have a visiting artist that day your work should be placed uncovered in the back room on the counter (I'll show you) Focus and work hard and check back before class on Tuesday for the final project to be announced!

Shannon Sullivan next Tuesday!

Don't forget to see her work and write about the show (downstairs gallery) in your sketchbooks!

For Adrianna and all!

Post by Molly Hatch.

Tip Toland sculpting a bust

Beginning Students:
Remember while you are not hollowing out, you must release any trapped air with a pinhole. Leather hard is the best stage to carve details and while you want to keep your head from drying out do not over hydrate. If you see water on the surface or moisture building it's too wet and may weaken or collapse the form. A damp paper towel (wring out all water) or just wrapping in enough plastic usually works well. Remember to only use 04 Lowfire Slip and Engobe.
Get started on details and have fun!

Agnes Baillon: Beginning heads

Robert Arneson: Self Portraits

Push texture, form and how its sits... be inventive. Make it look as much like you as possible. To do this you must pay attention to detail and really look at yourself.

University of Texas Arlington art saturday

Free opportunity for students!
Email me if your interested and I'll send you the atatchment so you can read about workshops and demos. A great and free opportunity!

Due to limited space in many of our studios, you

must RSVP for all workshops to art@uta.edu.

Handbuilt Functional Bowls: Emily Schroeder Willis!

Both bowls made from porcelain and fired to cone 6 in an oxidation electric kiln. Look at those detail. Love the subtle  cutout on the foot. See more of her work here.

gert germeraad

New artist to look up and new website! I'll add it to the side bar.

New website for inspiration and research: Charlotta Klingström Keramik / Ceramics

Jess Riva Cooper

http://www.jessrivacooper.com/#/viral-series/

In honor of James Watral

Please take a moment to think of and remember the amazing James Watral who taught at Eastfield for many years influencing, inspiring and educating the love and joy of ceramics. He was a man among men and will be missed deeply by many.

See more of the Rosenfield Collection's Watral work

Cups cups and more cups! Charlie Cummings Gallery

http://claylink.com/zen/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=83_239

A little eye candy for your Thursday morning!

Project 2 Pinterest page

Debra Fritts AFTER THE DANCE

Check often as I'll keep updating!
http://www.pinterest.com/meehanmargaret/project-2-self-portrait-bust/

Coil Built Bowls on Pinterest

pinterest link

The Human Condition

The Human Condition: The Stephen and Pamela Hootkin Collection of Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture at Chazen Museum (Madison, WI Sept. 5­ – Nov. 30, 2014) is huge and sprawls with fluid ease through the Rowland, Garfield and Mayer galleries of this elegant institution. Its scale is not just due to the number of works, over 100, or the number of artists, 34, but because of the large scale of many of the pieces.

Judy Fox, Rapunzel

Call for Entries

The University of Dallas invites you to participate in a juried ceramic competition featuring artists living in the central south region of the United States.

Eva Kwong,  known for abstracted work that are colorful and sensuous forms inspired by natural objects.

Internationally recognized ceramic artist Eva Kwong will be selecting artists for the 2015 University of Dallas Regional Juried Ceramic Competition. From a selected field of artists, Eva will issue distinctions of "Awards of Merit" and present two deserving artists with "Best of Show" awards. Solo exhibitions will be scheduled in the following academic year for the "Best of Show" award winners.

This show is open to ceramic artists over the age of 18 who currently reside in the states of Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. Submitted functional or sculptural works must use clay as the dominant material and must have been created within the past two years.

The postmark deadline for entering this show is November 20, 2015.

To access this year's prospectus, view the show history, and apply online, please use the following link:

http://udallas.edu/constantin/programs/art/undergradprograms/ceramics/competition.html  

Weekly Inspiration- trompe l'oeil

David J. Gilhooly

• "3 Donuts". ceramic (1.75x3.25 in) 1973