2018 Progress Report: October-Part 5

The last week of October saw a change in my weekly work schedule. Around this time, wet clay work had stopped and would not be continued for the remainder of the year. I got back into drawing. Glazing work continued while I also made preparations for a Halloween photo shoot. During November, I would end up shifting away from firing clay and focus more on drawing and other mixed media work.

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10/30/18: I'm making sure all the pieces fit after the bisque firing.

10/30/18: This is basically the same as the first picture but from a different angle.

10/30/18: Here's yet another angle of the previous two pictures. With this particular project, the pieces can only stick on if they're glued on. Also, there's one piece missing. That's because it had to be fired separately due to the kiln being too full.

10/30/18: There was a lot of glazing that had to be done this week.

10/31/18: During the early morning of Halloween, I finished carving my turnips that I would use for a photoshoot later in the day.

10/31/18: I was working on this drawing. The proportions are still messed up, though I at least got an idea of what the general composition would be like. I should have been more careful when starting this drawing for reasons that I'll explain in a future post.

10/31/18: I started on yet another drawing. This is bed on a digital photo project I did back in 2006 called Jon-Erich's Eyes.

2018 Progress Report: October-Part 4

During the 4th week of October, I focused entirely on getting firings and wet clay work done, though I wish had gotten some more drawing done that week. I worked on three projects that had varying degrees of progress, at least in the studio. Although I don't have pictures of it in progress, I also spent the later half of October doing photography work outdoors to prepare for some digital projects, which was probably part of the reason I didn't any drawing work during the week.

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10/22/18: This piece finally got fired. Because of its size (at least 25" on its wide side), it took a while before there was enough room in the kiln to have this fired.

10/22/18: I finished glazing this piece. I'm trying to do an experiment with putting splotches of glazes down to see if it makes a big difference.

10/23/18: More P13 raku firings were done. the firings look pretty good, I think.

10/23/18: The raku firing for this piece got done. I learned a great deal from firing this piece. Even though I'm using a lot of the same glaze combinations on these pieces, I sometimes get metallic yellow on parts of a ceramic piece and I was never sure why. This piece may have answered that question. We had to put this piece in a separate trash can and the side that stuck out at the top turned yellow. We suspected that it was the rising smoke that caused the yellowing effect, which looks interesting.

10/23/18: I'm continuing work on this. It is surprisingly complex. There are a lot of pieces here.

10/24/18: In total, there are 20 small clay pieces that will eventually need to be glued onto the canvas.

2018 Progress Report: October-Part 3

During this week in October, I continued doing wet clay work and firings. I also finally got around to working on drawings again. While there weren't that many pictures taken during this week, a lot of progress was still made. To be honest though, it was around this time that I started falling behind schedule since the drawings were originally supposed to have been worked on earlier in October. Over the next few weeks, we'll see this weird pattern of projects jumping ahead of schedule only to immediately fall way behind schedule. This is the nature of mixed media work, where there are many components to a project instead of just drawing or sculpting.

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10/15/18: The bisque firings are finished. I even fired the smaller broken pieces, though I think one of them would end up going missing later.

10/15/18: The glazing has been done.

10/15/18: What is interesting about the pieces for the P13 project is that even though they use the same combination of glazes, the glazes are applied differently with each set that I make and because of the volatile nature of raku firings, each set will look different then the last. When I eventually attach all these piece to the P13 project, I'll have to work with various acrylic mediums to give each piece a sense of continuity.

10/16/18: While I normally like to leave each piece on the canvas until they dry, that didn't work with this one. The clay pieces kept falling off.

10/17/18: I finally started making progress with this drawing. This eye will eventually go on to be my best eye drawing yet.

10/17/18: I finally resumed work on this project. As of the time of this picture being taken, I got most of the proportions down. Ironically, even though this was the first project I started in 2018, it would be the last projector 2018 that I would finish.