Picasso: The History: Here’s my part of the story. Tell me what you see and start the next chapter… Scraps and spontaneity push the limits of form... this is part of my Faces series, with a very obvious influence… The Technique: How I did this awesomeness! Using a Cone 6 stoneware, I rolled out slabs … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #135: Picasso
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #134: Long Face: I Had a Thought
Long Face: I Had a Thought: The History: Here’s my part of the story. Tell me what you see and start the next chapter… The funny thing about the movement and curves on this is that it really appears to be moving, or melting before your eyes… I wanted to create a wisp of smoke. … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #134: Long Face: I Had a Thought
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #133: Long Faces #2
Long Faces #2: The History: Here’s my part of the story. Tell me what you see and start the next chapter… The porcelain gave me another feel and allowed me to see that the purity of the clay is part of the beauty… I needed to find the ghosts within or release them, from the … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #133: Long Faces #2
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #132: The Discussion To Save The World
The Discussion To Save The World: The History: Here’s my part of the story. Tell me what you see and start the next chapter… Inspired by and dedicated to all those little old men, sitting together in the cafes, solving the world's ills with animated conversation. Easter Island images, Tiki iconography, and African masks started … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #132: The Discussion To Save The World
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #131: The Quintet
The Quintet: The History: Here’s my part of the story. Tell me what you see and start the next chapter… Inspired by my mother's love of singing in her barbershop choir, I built music for her. After seeing her sing for over twenty years, probably one of the reasons I like Barbershop and Acapella music, … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #131: The Quintet
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #130: The Lookout
The Lookout: The History: Here’s my part of the story. Tell me what you see and start the next chapter… Filled with the music of the wind in the reeds, this vessel was a simple beauty… Following a challenge from another potter, I decided I could make larger vessels all standing on the long faces. … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #130: The Lookout
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #129: Rufus
Rufus: The History: Here’s my part of the story. Tell me what you see and start the next chapter… This is one of the several small statues built using my faces... many of the others were sold before I took pictures of them and have traveled to homes across North America. They are all filled … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #129: Rufus
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #128: Small Faces
Small Faces: The History: Here’s my part of the story. Tell me what you see and start the next chapter… These came at another ending. I had finished a series of larger sculptures and had loads of scraps and slabs. I decided to make a bunch of goblets and shot glasses. The Technique: How I … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #128: Small Faces
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #127: Pub Folk #4
Pub Folk #4: The History: Here’s my part of the story. Tell me what you see and start the next chapter… These came at the end of another exploration series. I needed to remember what this blue glaze could do. At this time I was asked if I could make a cup to drink Ouzo. … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #127: Pub Folk #4
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #126: Pub Folk #3
Pub Folk #3: The History: Here’s my part of the story. Tell me what you see and start the next chapter… A change was getting mixed with personal anger and I needed a new beginning, I would make only a few of shot glasses in red for my personal us and see how I felt … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #126: Pub Folk #3
The New Renaissance Mindset 