Mooooorrreeee.....

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Look what my dear Argentinian friends have done with the photos they made when they where here in my studio!!!

Love you, guys!!!

http://www.femeninas.com.ar/Obras-de-Arte/Artista-Escultora-y-Pintora.asp

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Ultimate photos!

Yessssssss,

found an internet/cybershop where I can plugg in my treasure, my laptop!

These photos are my last days of working, glazing in Ibiza. I look a bit like Dart Vader because of the mask, but safety first! Something not really understoot by many dear spanish people.

Anyways, the glaze, here pastel coloured with a very mat finish, will look very very bright after being fired in the kiln. Which would be... now?

I haven´t spoken to my boss, I guess he did the firing, and I can only cross my fingers hoping the gorgeous parrot came out the way I imagened. For you, dear reader, who´s not a ceramist: the glazing process keeps on being a magic process and one is never a 100% sure the way the object come out of the firing-process. And this is not only for a beginning artist such as me (4 years after graduating) but also for my my estimated elder collegues!

In Barcelona now....

Yep,

I have changed the wonderfull island of Ibiza for Barcelona.

I DO have the photos glazing etc, but ... for the moment can´t find a cybershop which allows laptops...

Soon as I find one, I´ll flip up the photos and keep up a diary of my catalonian experiences.

Live.Love.Laugh.: Inspiration

Live.Love.Laugh.: Inspiration: "

If you want to be a writer, write. If you want to be a painter, then paint. There are no magical barriers and there are no ships that are coming for you. You have to follow your dream as if it were something your life depended on. Just begin and don't ever, ever slow down. Make no compromises and do the best work you are capable of. Throw out the old ideas or use them as levers to discover new ones. Reinvent, waste, invert, twist, bend, and puncture your ideas with new ones. Combine, reverse, and put things where they don't belong. Teach your mind how to misbehave. Then, in the chaos, take the exacto knife to it and make it simple.'
- Mark Stephen Meadows "

Nothing happening

Sorry not much happening,

end of season.... just a week more and then I am off to Barcelona...

Am going to glaze the big Ibiza Parrot tomorrow, cause my model Miguel is helping Paco installing a stove... Can´t work at the Ibizan dancer...

Could make some photos of me as dart Vader glazing...

soon

Nothing happening

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Sorry, just hard work,

little play... no wurthy new things.... am going to glaze the big Ibiza parrot... could make some photos from that...

soon

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Ceramic waterparty!

The next photos are my sculptures of the parrot with his "consience" on his shoulder and Ibiza under his claws and the transforming lady.
Both of them have withstand the first burn, also called the Bisque-firing greatly!
They are in the garden to be soaked in water,
this strange event we have to do because our supplier (our faithfull supplier for over 15 years) has send us some clay with plaster of some kind in it. And plaster, for some chemical reason after being fired and moisted expands....
This moistening can go very slowly... can take a few years even,
but thén the power of this expansion is so great that it ´ll break thru ceramic AND glaze, thus leaving a crater sometimes big as a centimeter in dimension....
This is ALWAYS ugly in a sculpture, for its very easy to be spotted, but it´s a DISASTER when this occurs in delicate parts such as the face!
Can you imagine what it does to a gaze when one eye is particly "blind". ....!!!!
So as a prevention, we soak the sculptures artificially before glazing.

Yeah, prehistoric measures, but practical.

On the bottom photo 4 lamps, 2 of them in the series of the gargouilles to make a nice outdoor set.

2 bique-burnt sculptures 

indicating crack 

Wet lamps 

Up side down!

Uuuuups,
Doing things in a rush is noooooo good!

Therefor, I must humbebly ask you, my dear public to get out of that chair and view the past foto upside down!
+sorry+sorry+sorry

Anyways, its a foto taken from the kiln, creating big relief for me, seeing that the top part from the metamophosis woman/sculpture has come out of the fire in one piece, no weird cracks or anything!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(so happy)

Meanwhile I am not posting a lot, I am doing tests for this stupid redish colour a client desires and the big Ibizan dancer (sitting down) sculpture, which is coming along great now,
but the boring part of making textile like texture is coming up next.
After that a somewhat more fun part: the face!
Fotos soon, I promiss!

Kiln open