The New Renaissance Mindset

Woman #3 Musings of the Artists Mind Similar to Woman #4 in the attraction to touch it, this one played a contrast in that the colour is both oddly attractive and unattractive. I find myself often looking at it as I cross my home gallery and have noticed a great many guests doing the same. … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #423 – Woman #3

Woman #4 Musings of the Artists Mind So far, this is the best of my explorations into the female figure. The surface is perhaps way too interesting to touch and everyone who sees it, touches it. I created this glaze by mixing a pure pigment with a glossy clear glaze and the effect was a … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #422 – Woman #4

Woman #5 Musings of the Artists Mind Deep into my explorations of these materials, I wanted to try and build a big piece out of Red Earthenware clay. I hadn’t played much with the medium and was more uncertain of how to finish it, than anything else. I dove into it, like I would with … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #421 – Woman #5

Blue Man - I Give Up Musings of the Artists Mind This Blue Man must have been having a very bad day, at least musically. I hear no music in this one, as the expression is all of frustration.  This form allowed me to experiment with the happenstance of gravity that occurs in the kiln … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #420 – Blue Man – I Give Up

Blue Man Thinking Musings of the Artists Mind The Blue Man series was an extension of my Blues paintings, full of music, movement and joy. I believe this one is living in Scottsdale, AZ.  The odd thing is that in my initial drawings, all the faces were small and round. When I started making the … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #419 – Blue Man Thinking

Blue Man Group Musings of the Artists Mind My Blue Men keep on evolving, or so it was when I was making them. At the time I was working towards making an orchestra of heads on a single body. I got distracted and moved to other shapes.   I'm not really sure where this one … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #418 – Blue Man Group

Part 18 - Sculpture Gods & Goddesses As a child, I watched my father spend hours meticulously carving into a long of clay. Carefully misting it with water and daily smoothing & re-smoothing cracks and faults he found in the nearly perfect surfaces, or so I saw them. I never wanted to put that much … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity – Part 18 – Sculpture Gods & Goddesses