I have also kept working on my colored pencil drawing series and hope to complete them digitally with poetry that goes along with each part. I really have enjoyed doing research about the work that I am making about fruit and women in society.
Monday, April 20, 2020
Ceraminanigans
I have finally gotten my clay studio set up in my garage, complete with my new kickwheel, clay, reclaim buckets, throwing tools, and plenty of natural sunlight (pictured below is my dad trimming part of the rod that connects the two wheels). I am still working out how to throw on this new wheel and create pieces that are evenly thrown. I have been making sketches of patterns I want to use on some new pieces as well as drawing different forms I want to experiment with. I also attempted coil building because I enjoy the texture flat coils create, however I have always struggled with coil building, so I want to figure out how to make something look like it has been coil built.
I have also kept working on my colored pencil drawing series and hope to complete them digitally with poetry that goes along with each part. I really have enjoyed doing research about the work that I am making about fruit and women in society.
I have also kept working on my colored pencil drawing series and hope to complete them digitally with poetry that goes along with each part. I really have enjoyed doing research about the work that I am making about fruit and women in society.
Saturday, April 4, 2020
Studio Shutdown
April 4, 2020
Over the past few weeks, I have been struggling with the anxiety of not having a studio to work with clay. Ceramics is the medium for me that relieves all of my stress and keeps my depression at a manageable level, and without it, I have been feeling my mood deteriorate. Although I have been using other media, I have realized that I have a higher emotional need for clay than I do for other materials. In order to relieve some of this stress, I was able to get a kickwheel from a friend- Larry Beisler, whose wife, Sandy, I worked very closely with at the Arts Council of Southern Indiana when I was in high school. When I went to pick up the wheel with my dad, Sandy had me come inside and showed me her collection of ceramic bowls- one even made by my friend Ollie Reed, who was a post baccalaureate student the year I started doing ceramics.
In the week since I got this wheel, my dad helped me to build it, I ordered some Speckled Turtle from Mudworks, and got some sketches together for what new imagery I want to put on my pots. I have also been using colored pencil to plan out some lithographs I plan to make in the fall.
Over the past few weeks, I have been struggling with the anxiety of not having a studio to work with clay. Ceramics is the medium for me that relieves all of my stress and keeps my depression at a manageable level, and without it, I have been feeling my mood deteriorate. Although I have been using other media, I have realized that I have a higher emotional need for clay than I do for other materials. In order to relieve some of this stress, I was able to get a kickwheel from a friend- Larry Beisler, whose wife, Sandy, I worked very closely with at the Arts Council of Southern Indiana when I was in high school. When I went to pick up the wheel with my dad, Sandy had me come inside and showed me her collection of ceramic bowls- one even made by my friend Ollie Reed, who was a post baccalaureate student the year I started doing ceramics.
In the week since I got this wheel, my dad helped me to build it, I ordered some Speckled Turtle from Mudworks, and got some sketches together for what new imagery I want to put on my pots. I have also been using colored pencil to plan out some lithographs I plan to make in the fall.
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