4 posts tagged “clay sculpture”
Clay is about texture.
Have been watching my clay texture scraps while working on the sculpture commissions. They are all slightly different in expression and gesture. The feet are fun to do too. There is always a new quality to enjoy. Trying to look at things differently and see a new solution or harmony is always the challenge. Looking at it out of the corner of my eye gives a new perspective.
I started thinking about combining the scraps with quality beads and silver, after painting them in interestingly layered acrylic color. I'm having some fun and interesting results.
But now it's time to get back to sculpture.
Several commissions that need finishing, both 2 and 3 dimensional.
Gotta get to work.
Decided that I should add the acrylic commission that I'm working on too. It's getting closer. I've posted progress previously.It is a triptych.
The planet spins, wheels turn on the highway and the calendar page flutters, hovering on the brink a new year.
Change is constant, change is imminent. The challenge is to choose change. Determine the most useful and constructive change, then enact that choice.
Since the opening at Gallery•in•the•Field on December 6, I have been immersed in the season. Friends & family; wrapping up classes at CSC and CCV; mailing boxes hither and yon across the country, etc. etc.
Now a wintry sun is about to set on my first quiet day at home in ages. In the past week and a half, our houseful of family has been inundated with swift and drifting snow, deluged with unseasonal, warm rain, beset with strong winds... The creek is brimming, perhaps about to flood, but with tonight's bone chilling cold that becomes less likely, and all visitors are home safely.
The forecast is snow and cold through New Years Eve, then sun on the first day of 2009.
My muse is shivering. She is in the process of re-grouping, re-vitalizing projects left bobbing in the wake of the show, preparing for the next semester, which will have a much better schedule than last. Very promising.
Time now for a cup of tea, and cozy retreat with the cats and my new book: Enclosure, by Goldsworthy. Yay!
The work.
The opening.
The hurdle leaping journey to getting there. I am very pleased with the results.
Many attended and were appreciative.
A few sales.
All good.
Now to catch up with the rest of my life.
There is no development physically or intellectually
without effort, and effort means work.
~ Calvin Coolidge
Ah, a wordy and insightful quotation from a laconic Vermonter!
From the pile of dried-out earthenware that I bludgeoned into smithereens, to this shapely coil pot, there has been growth. And there has been work. And it's not over yet. Many hours of clay prep, coiling, paddling, pinching and forming. The form is still incomplete. She needs fingers and toes, and she will hold the moon.
Then comes the firing and coloring.
I LOVE THIS PROCESS, and the end results as well.
She reclines, like the cliffs from which her image was taken.
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