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

Links

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 

Schiele's sunflower 

While waiting

Since I am busy on the Ibizencan sculpture, but with not much to show,
I thougt of making my dear public happy by showing one of last years' pieces.
And a token that I CAN glaze!
This piece is about a meter high, 25 cm broad. Inspired in a painting of Schiele,
one of the painters I admire most. Died too young, when he was about 33!
Spanish flu.... Three days after his beloved wife, isn't that romantic?
This piece has a very melodramatic air, wich enchanches me...
Hope you like it too!

The final scetch

scetch 

Next project:

Ok, so the Next project is a typical Ibizan farmerboy dressed up for the traditional dances.

Fair is Fair,
after pushing all the projects I wanted to do, now it's time again to listen and obey my bosses' wishes (he is 100% Ibizencan) (endangered speaces) and make a traditional folkloric figure.
His Nephew is a professional dancer... ok, talking about traditional dances, not those dances going on in the megadiscothekes on the island, eventhough I suppose in time those will become traditional as well. In the end it serves the same goal: courting the ladies.

So the nephew dressed up for me,
set an hour or two as my model and I drew him so I would have guidance during the making of my figure. (Took photos too, hihi, squicky me)

The drawing session was a few days ago, meantime I have already started the building of the figure... HARD WORK!
Nothing really to see yet, soon as it gets form I'll be reporting visually.

Meanwhile the gargouilles are drying,
the bottompart of the parrot-lady has been fired and has come out of the kiln with NO defect whatsoever,
-knock knock- (that's me knocking on wood so the gods will help me that the top part, =far mor fragile and elaborated will come out equally good!)

Drawing a Typical Ibizan Folkdancer 

2Gargouilles drying 

Gargouilles drying

This photo shows 2 gargouilles (there are 3, but it´s not visible on the photo) drying in our special drying room.
The nearest one I have already captured on the net, but the 2nd one only halfway through. Well, this is the result!
They 're defenitly gothic-inspired but their formes are rounded with contemporary tast and fashion. (only to be seen a decade from now!)