This week I finally finished my sculpture and took photos. I ended up sanding the man for hours, the good old 60 grit got the job done. Thank god its over. I also glazed a bunch of my baby head cups ! These little guys are very cute and I am excited to try and sell them. My goal is to go out into the world and ask a few different shops if they would be down to sell 'em, I was thinking breeze wine bar, dot fox, the new horror book store on barrett. Basically places that little freaks with disposable income shop. I finally go to planning my sculpture. In order to do so I made a new fun tool. I took my little protractor (one of my favorites) and removed the metal and replaced it with pencil so that both ends could draw. I then took the cap of a pen in order to create a distance in the center that stays the same. I am using it to draw out a lines for the sculpture !
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Yet again we have reached a new semester, spring time is upon us and I am more lost than ever. Ya boy last minute applied to graduate school so let's see where that goes. This semester I have made the insane choice of taking not only ceramics but also a sculpture class at U of L. Because of this my goal is simple, make one (large) piece in ceramics and one (large) work in sculpture. Here are my rudimentary sketches for the art ! I am feeling a new found excitement with the sculpture class, the idea that I can start using wood in my ceramic work gives me ideas that I didn't know I had in me. While I have certainly used some wood tools before, it's never been enough to feel confidant using them. So I am really psyched to gain more experience and feel like a pro ! On a real note, I am also applying to a full-time position at the Speed. I just submitted my resume so who knows maybe theres no shot, but I have a good feeling that I am qualified and I'm not sure what would happen if I got it. I am at a point in my life where I feel like I need a full-time job, whatever I have been doing with work and school is simply not sustainable. So anyway I am entering this year giving myself too many options, I will trust my gut to make the right choices.
In the meantime I have been making some baby head cups using all the old ass baby doll head molds. My favorite is the temples permission red. I made the folks tea for the wood firing. I honestly want to not talk about the wood firing I was very upset when everyone forgot about me. But anyway !!! I finally fired my piece in big bailey ! Here is proof of me slaying with the little (okay actually big) sculpture I made. This was before I did a shit ton of sanding which i forgot to take a picture of lol. I did another little shadowing moment at the speed. It was a fun day to learn better practices around packing work. They were super sweet I came in to "help" move the huge Rodin sculpture, but the head prep was out sick. I stayed anyway and spent a solid 8 hour day with the art handlers. I got to watch them unbox a crate of two paintings, move some work around out of storage, pack a few paintings. It was really cool to see what a normal day might look like. and then Mike brought me donuts, I think they felt bad that I was there for free lol.
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