Kat's Art Blog: updates

Did more stuff today...

But forgot to take pictures!

I am thinking that this is a really good art adventure experiment. If I blog and take photos of my work as I'm doing it, I'll get to see my entire process. I forget a lot about how I do things as I'm working much of the time because I only record it in my sketchbook as lists of things that need to get done on a piece. I accomplished a lot today and yesterday.

Yesterday this girl (I forgot her name, darnit!) and I made a huge batch of slip. It took a while, we had to add like 120 pounds of ball clay and 80 pounds of talc! That's some heavy stuff then it's in 50 pound increments.
Today I glazed about 9 bags, and a bunch of rings for my tornado. I also further refined my fox head, and made some more slip with paper pulp.

Cell phone photos will come tomorrow.

What needs to be done after that? I have two more bags ready to be bisque fired. I have quite a few tornado rings to paint with many layers of slip so that they are nice and strong. I also need to take photos of this stuff too!

Then I need to make 10-15 more bags. And a lot more tornado rings out of paper. Then paint them, then bisque, then glaze, then glaze fire. Then I've gotta assemble it all, oh, bother!

But tonight, I am working on my tapestry!
I'll take pictures of that too!

Wow, I am busy on art these days. Pretty cool huh? I have 2 more weeks in ceramics after this week. I've done a lot a lot of work so far, and I'm really enjoying everything I've done in Erhen's class

In addition, I've managed to get myself a job at an art supply store (Utrecht Art Supplies) and I finally get to clock in this Friday. I am really excited to be working at an art supply store! I get discounts and I get paid! Plus, being able to use my skills as an artist in an actual job is comforting. I know a hell of a lot about art supplies, but the information was practically useless to anyone but me until now! Man, what a great day!

P.S.-
My previous post has some photos of how some of my work looked yesterday.

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Updates.

Hello, world!

My summer has been lovely and I feel as though I am making great progress in the exploration of new materials. I have been fusing plastic shopping bags into large tapestries, although I am not sure what kinds of scenes I will put on them. I am also working on a ceramic bag installation project (image of a finished bag above.)

I am trying to make this blog look nice, but it is taking much longer than expected. I am also working on my portfolio website at katattack.org, and it's looking good also!

I am currently taking ceramics and undertaking a few very interesting projects!

ready to be bisqued!

Glazing.... (this is actually a different bag from the one above.)

Finished after glaze firing. How lovely!

Here are some images I took of my in-progress fox/wolf cloak project thingy! The nose is a bit too small, but at least it no longer looks like a pig's head like it did when I started it on Friday!

sorry about the cell phone pictures! I'll get better ones in the future hopefully!

The fox/wolf cloak piece is going to go with my coat of many colors picture. I am planning on making a plaster mold of the cloak and then using paper pulp as the final product. I am really happy with it so far, especially since it is my first adventure in making something (with my hands!) out of clay. also, it looks much nicer in person. I will take really nice pictures of the finished product when I'm done.