Tea #6: The Technique: How I did this awesomeness! Combining a slab-building and Pinch-pot method to make the actual bowl, I worked it wet and fast. While still wet, I hit the clay with the end of a small stick to make the texture, then I set it aside to dry slowly under paper and … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #213 – Tea #6
Ofrenda for Basquiat
November 2nd is The Day of The Dead and we must create these memorial images of those we want to remember. I’m playing with the interpretation of this awesome Mexican tradition, but I want to pay tribute to a creative inspiration: Jean-Michel Basquiat. Perhaps doing an Ofrenda in a style similar to his will doOfrenda … Continue reading Ofrenda for Basquiat
Old Man Facing The Wind
I was in need of filling a little time and didn’t feel like getting dirty with charcoals, so I sat on a bench not far from this older businessman. He was enjoying the breeze and sunshine on his face. Well, that’s what I think he was doing and probably what it would have looked like,Old … Continue reading Old Man Facing The Wind
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #211 – Tea #3:
Tea #3: The Technique: How I did this awesomeness! Combining a slab-building and Pinch-pot method to make the actual bowl, I worked it wet and fast. While still wet, I rolled it in broken porcelain crumbs left over in my recuperation bin and dabbed on some grog mixed with manganese stain, then I set it … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #211 – Tea #3:
T.A.E.’s Art Reviews – Leaning In And Listening
In Leaning in and Listening, the viewer is confronted with an intimate, psychologically charged portrait executed in dense oil pastel upon an organic, hand-cast paper substrate. The work immediately enters into dialogue with early 20th-century Modernism, operating at the crossroads of School of Paris portraiture, Fauvist chromatic intensity, and German Expressionist structural directness. Through an … Continue reading T.A.E.’s Art Reviews – Leaning In And Listening
Mesmer, or some other freak who turned me into a chicken in Las Vegas
I think I just woke up, refreshed and not remembering a thing about being a chicken… I have no clue what deep dark corner of my mind pulls this nonsense into the light of day, but here it is. Say hello to the Kramer of hypnotists. Capable of doing great things, but somehow, just likeMesmer, … Continue reading Mesmer, or some other freak who turned me into a chicken in Las Vegas
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity – Part 8 – Exploring Wabi-Sabi
Part 8 – Exploring Wabi-Sabi The Wikipedia description fits best for this period of play I call My Wabi-Sabi. I embarked on a creative journey of seeking beauty in the imperfect. It’s here that the study of kiln errors, firing mistakes, Raku finishes, and breaking the rules came together the most. These are all done500 … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity – Part 8 – Exploring Wabi-Sabi
T.A.E.’s Art Reviews – Vulnerability
“Vulnerability” is structured as a portrait of exposure—formal, emotional, and material. Rather than presenting a stable likeness, the work foregrounds how an image can be revealed and simultaneously threatened. Stylistically, it aligns with a collage-inflected, erosion-based mode: the face appears as a palimpsest, embedded within layers of distressed pigment and abraded ground. This approach recalls modernist … Continue reading T.A.E.’s Art Reviews – Vulnerability
T.A.E.’s Art Reviews – Disappointment
“Disappointment” stages affect as a problem of surface rather than of expression alone. The work’s central stylistic impulse is textural portraiture within a collage-like, erosion-based aesthetic: the face appears through abrasions, overpainting, and scrape marks, as though the image were being uncovered while simultaneously being damaged. The result is a visual rhetoric of incompletion. Unlike representational … Continue reading T.A.E.’s Art Reviews – Disappointment
Hellish Hair
Ok, this one may be more imitation than inspiration… well, I’m not sure. I was looking at charcoal drawings and saw someone make a portrait of some guy with messy hair. It followed closely after some stupid fashion ad on Instagram of people with “stylishly messy hair”. Anywho… the drawing was done in a moreHellish … Continue reading Hellish Hair