Folded #3: The History: Share what you see and start the next chapter… It was a rough week of personal trials. The energy and sketches were scarce. I decided to trust in fate and let the muses inspire spontaneity. It spawned a short series that was both satisfying and energizing, and pleasing to see, as … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #149: Folded #3
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #148: Folded #2
Folded #2: The History: Share what you see and start the next chapter… It was a rough week of personal trials. The energy and sketches were scarce. I decided to trust in fate and let the muses inspire spontaneity. It spawned a short series that was both satisfying and energizing, and pleasing to see, as … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #148: Folded #2
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #147: Folded #1
Folded #1: The History: Share what you see and start the next chapter… It was a rough week of personal trials. The energy and sketches were scarce. I decided to trust in fate and let the muses inspire spontaneity. It spawned a short series that was both satisfying and energizing, and pleasing to see, as … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #147: Folded #1
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #146: Disk-bowl
Disk-bowl: The History: Tell me what you see and start the next chapter… Shortly after realizing I didn't enjoy the process of turning clay, I started making items with slabs. At that time, someone had mistakenly contaminated a beautiful variegated blue glaze, it fired with a lovely caramel color and with odd pooling of colors. … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #146: Disk-bowl
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #145: Horn of Plenty
Horn of Plenty: The History: Tell me what you see and start the next chapter… When I started studying about porcelain, I began with what the challenges were in using it. This sculpture and its sister, "Cornucopia" were some of the many things my teachers said shouldn't be possible. Porcelain is a beautiful material to … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #145: Horn of Plenty
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #144: Cornucopia
Cornucopia: The History: Tell me what you see and start the next chapter… When I started studying about porcelain, I began with what the challenges were in using it. This sculpture and its brother, "Horn" were some of the many things my teachers said shouldn't be possible. Porcelain is a beautiful material to use and … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #144: Cornucopia
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #143: Adam and Eve
Adam & Eve: The History: Here’s my part of the story. Tell me what you see and start the next chapter… An extension of my melted pot series... I engraved the leather-hard clay on both sides... the opposite side has a short, pot-bellied Adam, with a beard... influenced by some African drawings I saw and … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #143: Adam and Eve
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity: Part 5 – Vessels
Part 5 - Vessels Explorations of forms and possibilities using slabs & hand-building. This was my apprenticeship with clay. I played with wet slabs, leather hard slabs, and everything in between. I mixed types of clay, created my own glazes, and broke all the rules the teachers and textbooks taught… It was here that I … Continue reading 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity: Part 5 – Vessels
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 #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
The New Renaissance Mindset 