I’m choosing to call this one “World War Two”. It reminds me of scenes from the old war movies. I couldn’t say which one, much less what era of filmmaking I think it comes. from, but it’s clearly from war movies for me. Maybe it’s the end scenes of Apocalypse Now. I started with puttingA … Continue reading A Creative Block Project – Day 3
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #174 – Pub Folk #5
Pub Folk #5: The History: Share what you see and continue the story. As I often do when finishing a series of large sculptures, or deciding to start some new experimentation, I make a series of shot glasses. I opted away from my usual faces for this series of shot glasses. Using a new glaze500 … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #174 – Pub Folk #5
A Creative Block Project – Day 2
It seems I still have an obsession with faces… even when I start with abstract work. To be fair to myself, I am still preoccupied with other work that is in progress. I need to allow myself to be mindful and let the work speak to me. I forced this one a little. I startedA … Continue reading A Creative Block Project – Day 2
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #173 – Ships 07
Ships 07: The History: Share what you see and continue the story. These were created while showing my Father how to use slabs to make pottery. He took a class with me and loved his coil-built pots, but was curious about how I did my slab-work, so I showed him. He still prefers coiling. These … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #173 – Ships 07
A Creative Block Project – Day 1
I’m going to try something for the next little while to break what I feel is a creative block. For a little while now I’ve been preoccupied with several other life events: completing a new certification in Art Therapy; preparing for a new year of teaching art and the first time teaching to teenagers; completingA … Continue reading A Creative Block Project – Day 1
What The Hell Is Coming Out Of The Centre Of This Tree?!?
There’s a skull-like face, with big hollow, black eyes. It seems to be extending an arm out and pointing out into the forest. The shadows cast upon this tree also look like figures dancing on the bark. These visions quickly disappear the closer one gets to the tree, but from afar, the imagination runs wild!What … Continue reading What The Hell Is Coming Out Of The Centre Of This Tree?!?
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #172 – Spontaneous 08-033:
Spontaneous 08-033: The History: Share what you see and continue the story. Ships sailing from some Industrial revolution era port… what do you see? These abstract forms are inspired by a love of Raku fired ceramics… it turns out it’s the mistakes that define the amazing results… I focused on what caused those mistakes and … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #172 – Spontaneous 08-033:
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #171 – Spontaneous 08-032
Spontaneous 08-032: The History: Share what you see and continue the story. The spontaneous shapes were fun all by themselves, and when I found my special glazing method, the attention they got from others pushed me to make dozens of these odd shapes. These abstract forms are inspired by a love of Raku fired ceramics…500 … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #171 – Spontaneous 08-032
T.A.E.’s Art Reviews – La Foule Québécoise: Un
The composition presents itself as a deliberately hybrid surface—part pictorial scene, part textual artifact, and part emblematic portrait. Its dominant field of burnt-orange and vermilion functions less as “background” than as an ideological climate: a warm, saturated plane that is scratched, rubbed, and worked with visible texture, suggesting a process-oriented practice in which meaning accrues … Continue reading T.A.E.’s Art Reviews – La Foule Québécoise: Un
T.A.E.’s Art Reviews – The Harshness of My Gaze
The piece presents a frontal, iconic figure—rendered through a limited but high-contrast palette of smoky gray, soot-like black, and weathered earth tones—whose material surface is as legible as the image itself. The face is built from abrasions, scorings, and accumulated marks that resemble abrasion in stone, the patina of time, or the residue of repeated … Continue reading T.A.E.’s Art Reviews – The Harshness of My Gaze