Reality Fragments
Long Portrait 1; Amberlea McNaught (by Christopher O’Regan)
Subject was told to just sit and look at the camera, but not told how long the filming would last.
Amberlea’s is a fellow cardiff ceramicer! She got into such a giggle-fit. I think all my model’s will be coursemates for a while.
Work In Progress
Red clay mixed with perlite, vermiculite and oats. It smelt like biscuits or something which was odd.
Another Dogboy, moved his ears after this. He went a bit ‘Where the Wild Things Are’.
I have a new blog where I’m posting my artwork now, please follow!
I’m not sure about this guy… I probably should done more to the shoulders
“Still Waters, Agitated”
Buff stoneware with slips (black for the hair, dark purple band) iron oxide, and clear glaze.
I was reading about body language, and apparently holding the side of your finger to your lips is the adult equivalent of thumb-sucking.
Not completely happy with finish on this piece but overall it’s not too bad.
I’ll take proper photos another time.
I just kinda came up with that name outta no-where. it’s nice though.
This is from my blog for just my artwork, follow it pretty please!
Some pinhole photos from france. I’ve inverted and tinkered a little with them. One is a 25 second self-portrait the other is of the medieval tower in Perigeux (I think that’s where it was!). They have nice curving because I used a food tin as the pinhole-camera.
I’ve started a separate blog just for my work. Which I’ve been meaning to do for ages! I’m trying to encourage myself to produce and post more original content into the tumblrverse. Please follow it as well!
I spent a week at La Perdrix in the Dordogne last week with others from my course. We were creating ceramic pinhole cameras. It was great playing around in a darkroom again, I missed it (considering trying out my bathroom as one but not sure about it yet). We fired mine in the raku kiln raw but we weren’t having good luck that day and it blew up a little. It’s still intact enough to tell what it is though. We had a shared exhibition opening with a painter and a good few people turned up.
DogBoy. Terracotta. Some people thought he looked like a monkey, sadface.
Forgot to put up this link before, there is now an actual page for the exhibition I’ve a piece in at the moment.
I should have mentioned this before but I have a sculpture in a group show of my year group, taking place in Oriel Q in Narberth. I don’t have any photos yet as it takes about two hours to get there from Cardiff. I’ll try to get some as some stage.
This of course makes me an internationally shown artist!
It’s the big terra cotta head that I’ve uploaded WIP photos of before. It’s for sale so fingers crossed.
Terra-cotta with slips. Messing around with decoration. Not very happy with the hand.
Trying to portray emotionally still moments.
Buff stoneware with coloured slips. Bit of cracking developed near neck while drying, but I really like this piece.
(By group photo)
Left - Stoneware body with 50% perlite, raku-fired from raw with manganese glaze.
Middle - ash-white, high fired with cobalt decoration
Right - ash-white, high fired with cobalt decoration
Left and middle designed to be an ergonomic fit in hand.
Thrown stoneware container with black-basalt slip. Cobalt drawing on inside. Stoneware figure with copper oxide.
This was a kind of a maquette for a much larger more complicated piece. I love how shiny/metallic the black slip gets at high temperatures. The figure is tiny by the way.
Practice head. Already dissolved and reclaimed.
Terracotta head in progress. Around life size.
It looked real creepy wrapped in plastic.
Just a little overview of my ceramic work from my foundation year through to the end of first year. Nothing from second year because I was picking stuff that I still like after having made it a while and last term is too close to judge the work from it properly.
Two main things I have realised are that I haven’t really used colour much in a while and that those last pieces are very different from the rest of my work and I’m not sure how to reconcile it all together.
