Between major sculpting projects I like recharging by trying different artistic mediums. One activity was to enroll in a wheel pottery class with my daughter Ashley. It has been many years since my last wheel class but it didn't take too many reminders to recall throwing techniques.
I created two lidded vessels to replace the chipped sugar bowl that Pam and I now use. Experience has revealed that we tend to drop and break sugar bowl and lids so creating a spare seemed prudent.
Ashley helped me select glazes which explains why Purple Spec, her favourite shows up in many single and double glazed pieces.
I created two lidded vessels to replace the chipped sugar bowl that Pam and I now use. Experience has revealed that we tend to drop and break sugar bowl and lids so creating a spare seemed prudent.
Ashley helped me select glazes which explains why Purple Spec, her favourite shows up in many single and double glazed pieces.
I decided to try acrylic painting to get some of the many images in my head onto pictures. Past experience with oils proved difficult, but that's no reason to not try acrylics. Using a picture by Ryan Price for reference I created this Exciting Hair painting.
Simple paintings with dramatic curves such as those by Benjamin Chee Chee have always appealed to me. I flipped though my sketch book and found an interesting bird that I drew with coloured pens a few years ago at the cottage. Using it as a guide I painted the bird then went away and came back many times to revise it. The original colours were too harsh and the background too boring. In it's present state, part of me wants to add yellow to the centre area and part of me wants to leave it as is. At risk of ruining the painting, I decided to stop.
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