One more face pot. Nothing fancy this time. I just wanted to finish it up quick so I can pursue some other ideas I have. Why not make a pot-like hollow cone, stuff it with tissue, flip it over and sculpt it into a figurine of some sort? I’ll give it a try after this.
And Still Yet, Another Face Pot
10 NovActually, I posted this one when it was still wet and gray. It’s back from a second firing, and confirms my idea of using color on the inside. This was one of the first on which I used my primitive manual air-brush sprayer for the underglaze and glaze. It looks like some kind of drug paraphernalia, but you blow into it to generate the airstream, suction and a crude mist. And I stand UPWIND from now on.
When the Hurly-Burly’s Done
21 OctAfter a month-long perfect storm of dense tech-work, a harmonic convergence of the kind of freelance raining and pouring that can keep a translator busy from six a.m. to well past midnight, producing a warm, fuzzy feeling in the duodenum of the self-employed, it’s now time to … take a breath. Deadlines pass. Phones quiet down. The dust settles. And the face pots reassert themselves.
When the Hurly-Burly’s Done
21 OctAfter a month-long perfect storm of dense tech-work, a harmonic convergence of the kind of freelance raining and pouring that can keep a translator busy from six a.m. to well past midnight, producing a warm, fuzzy feeling in the duodenum of the self-employed, it’s now time to … take a breath. Deadlines pass. Phones quiet down. The dust settles. And the face pots reassert themselves.
And Still Yet Another Face Pot
23 SepI usually rough out the shape just with my fingertips and no tools. I have dozens of ingeniously designed and crafted little clay tools, most of which I will never, ever use. You can do 90% of sculpting with thumb and fingertips, which give a constant stream of feedback through the sense of touch. After the fingertip work, I usually add detail and do a lot of fussing around with tools. But this this time I left well enough alone.
Bisque-Fired Portrait Face
11 SepThis face made it through the kiln one time. Now I’m going to have to resist over-glazing it for a second firing. Light touch. Light touch.