Crit 10-4-10

Hey everyone hope all is well, so. Had a crit today in ceramics


went well had good feed back . Some comments/ suggestions were were to make the weld marks less prominent and think about other ways to hang the pieces to where it could make the viewer a little more uncomfortable. Like over head more . Anothe was to present in some way more clear that it is a gift to.. . Whoever. Make it clear their is some importance to the piece personally, and or to the viewer . Otherwise all is on the way to being finished and shown in multiple ways till I'm happy and the viewer can leave with s feeling of what can I do, or why has this been allowed for this long type of feeling.

this week

Well for this past week i have been really busy with finishing up my work for the Fourth Wall show in Louisville. I made a stand to hold the fiece so that i could put on the fins. I had to use a t washer and a 2/4. to keep the spacing equal i used a 120 degreee triangle, inside a circle so the 3 points were evenly spaced and I centered the piece inside the circle.

I'm leting those set up then iI'm going to gold leaf the epoxy part to look like a golden weld.

Also this week i have finished laying the coild on my new box as shown in the post before. Now I'm going to let the slabs set up so i can put them all together.

Last night I helped fire a raku kiln till 4:00 in the morning. I fired a few bowls and cups, along with 2 more tall cylender pieces and fins. this was a chore but not as much as the first time i did it. I have perfected the cool down on the tall pieces, along with tried a new way. For the second one I set a barrel at an angle so i could lay the piece down in it. I had much along the wall, then i cowered the top side with much, stood the barrel up and covered with a lid, this was by far quicked to cool, but the piece did have a crack in it on one side. I dont mind the crack you cant even see it, but it was alot nicer than waithing 1.5 hours for the slow cool much way of making a trench in mulch and covering it till cool. I'mm very pleased with both ressults and anxcious to start the nex phase on them of reinforcing and assymbling them into the final product.

This past week i also made another model airplane, a bomber which coinsides with the other pieces I'm doing. This model was then dunked in slip twice and now will be coated in slip dipes tissue paper to finish it off. This plane will then be fired and painted to look like an under water plane wreck from WWII. This piece will also be in the Fourth Wall Show.

Alot has happened this week with great sucess and timing. now to get in gear one more time to finish this last push to get ready for the show. Very excited, and alittle soar from last night, but totally stoked for everything to come. Except for going to work now. have to be there at 5 so here you go a few pics, wish i had some more now but don't.