Momentum OKC

 

Momentum was very fun. It was held at the Oklahoma City Farmers Market. There were several artists there that I knew from OSU. There was live music, food trucks, and lots of interesting people and art. My piece ended up selling which was very nice. I also got to attend an artist tax workshop.

my cow at Momentum OKC 2014

 
I went right from Momentum back to finishing up working on pieces for my senior Capstone Exhibition at OSU.

This is the postcard for the OSU senior capstone show. It features images from all 9 of
the artists in the show.

Here is the back of the postcard for my show it features a close up of my more recent cow painting as well as the date and time of the reception.

The Show is Thursday March 27th from 5-7pm at the Gardiner Art Gallery at Oklahoma State University. The work will be up until April 4th so go check it out if you are in the area. :)

Cows and melty things

It's been a while since I posted so I thought I would come on here and share what I am doing.
For sculpture I am working on two sculptures at once so that I am never waiting around for something. I have a foam dog which I will post about when it is a little farther along. I also have these miniature cow heads.

The cow heads were sculpted out of oil based clay. I then made a mold box out of some foam core board. I poured a rubber mold around the clay cow head and let it set up overnight. Now I am casting wax mini cow heads. The plan is to do five or so white ones and also try doing a few colored ones just to see how they turn out.  Whichever turns out better I will use those five for my show.

I will take the five cow heads and mount them to a pedestal and melt them to various stages so that there is a progression from not melted to almost fully melted. The pedestal plus the melted cows will then be shown together.

Clay Cow Head (5-6"?)

In the mold box

pouring the rubber

finished mold with hot wax inside

Three wax cow heads

 I am also doing some miniature paintings for the miniature art gallery I am helping curate for the Oklahoma State University Artists Society. I don't know if these will be in it or not but it is fun to paint this small. These paintings are only a few inches big. I am finding it kind of hard to paint that small with my current brushes. The paint globs on thicker and doesnt dry very fast so it is actually more challenging than I expected for something so small. I like working bigger much better I think.

Early on.. to show size and progress

This is probably bigger on your screen than in real life. This is after a couple

of hours

And last but not least my ceramic cow head got into Momentum :) Momentum will be in Oklahoma City March 7 and 8th 8pm to midnight. :)

http://www.ovac-ok.org/events/events_momentum.cfm

Ceramic Calf/Cow head- Got into Momentum OKC 2014

Ceramic cow. Wax heads

Posting some progress pictures. Got my ceramic cow head back from the kiln.
It turned out differently than I expected. I will post before and after pictures here.
Also got another wax head poured and started to fill in the gaps on my other one.

This is before it went in the kiln. The way I painted on the glaze

Another before shot

After.... The glaze did what it wanted I guess? I kind of like the color but I dont claim to understand how or why.
This is white slip sprayed on with gold plum brushed on in the gas kiln.  It turned out interesting/

I only glazed the mouth and tongue white from what I can ramamber so interesting that it got color. I kind of like it.

The right side of the cows head (left for you if looking straight on) got a lot of weird color variation. Almost a grey/green color.. I am thinking it is just how the glaze ran over the slip but I have no idea really.

Hole in the back. Original thinking was it could hang on a wall. Could also plug it with some wax or something and use it for a vase. haha

COW NOSE!!

from above

another angle

from below

Another angle

I kind of like how shiny it is.

moo.

I cast another under head (core) in plaster so that I could do a second wax head.

Plaster under head after I sanded it and cleaned it up a bit

Sealed it with denatured alcohol and shellac.

after a coat or two of shellac

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I cut myself a piece of wax to fit for an eyelid on my first wax casting.

After attaching. It still needs some cleaning up but it has its eyelid now at least

I started to patch up the empty spot on the neck. The wax is white when hot. I am hoping it will yellow up to match the rest of the head after a day or so.

A second wax casting of the head. This one over the plaster head core.

Two wax heads and one clay head

Here are the three creepy heads together. Front head is new wax. Right head is old wax (yellows overnight) on top of aluminum and the left is the original clay head.

CERAMICSSSSSSSSSSSS!

Ceramics!


Ok so long story short it was a bit of a learning curve for me and the wheel. Ceramics was not my friend this semester but I eventually got the hang of it and started to like it.

Then glazing came along.

Who invented this? gah!. Yeahhh soo only had a couple things turn out how I like after being glazed but here is a dump of my progress..

Here is a view of my top shelf that kind of shows most things proportional to others.

Yellow and Blue Mug

A shot of some of my best mugs

My three favorite mugs. These were done with red copper barnacle glaze. The green on the inside was the original color before they were fired in the salt kiln. I think these were successful both in shape and color.

A look inside the mugs

Two of my brown/gold plum mugs

Brown/ gold plum mug. I kind of like this one.

Close up of brown/gold plum mug with some orange on the inside.

Green mug family. I dont know if I like the shade or not. Kind of matte but bright. I do like that the mugs get smaller. The smallest one is shot glass size the biggest one is like a normal mug size.

BRIGHT orange mug/cup. Not really my favorite.

None of my bowls really looked that great. Here is an example. They are just kinda ok. Mostly matte colors. The bisque head thing underneath is not mine.

Red matte cylinder.

Copper Red Barnacle again. This time on a cylinder. I like it.

Also copper Red Barnacle. This cylinder has some chips on the bottom from where the glaze ran.

This I think may have been crystal magic glaze? I am not 100% sure which glaze I used with black slip. The spots were intentional but I intended them to be darker. I dont hate these but they arent as cool as I planned.

Another one. Same glazes. This one was gas kiln not salt kiln.

This was done in Raku(sp) glaze. I like the color and the pearly-ness of the top but it blistered.
I am going to have to see if I can redo this. This was the first coil built piece I did.

Blistering. Sad day.

Another shot of the yellow and blue mug. I really liked the shape of this mug. Glaze is just ok.

Another Raku(sp) fail. This was a slab built mini house that  got some charring. Kind of depressing but kind of fitting.
I am not sure if I want to re-glaze this piece or leave it as is.

Another angle.

Mini cylinder. I like the blue but it melted/flowed unevenly.

Another one of the spotty pieces. This one a bowl.. Not to thrilled about the glaze on this one.

I liked this cup a lot but the glaze on this piece ran. I dipped it in a matte blue and then a clear glaze and this was the result.

The insides ran too. looks kinda funky.

Another piece I liked until the glaze ran.

My husband says this one looks like a minion from despicable me.

Worst color glaze by far. I reglazed it red and apparently it all ran off.

panama blue and yellow bowl.

Bowl version of the worst glaze. Again I reglazed this red but it didnt work.

This was our last hand built project. Using molds we were supposed to combine them andhand build to make something.
This is duck/goose heads and eggs. I made it to look kind of like an insect head but it seems kind of abstract.
The glazing of this was fun. I sprayed on copper red barnicale followed by a grey black and it went in the salt kiln. Turned out kind of fun.

from the side

other side

another view

bottom

top

A view of my top shelf of ceramics

Bottom shelf

Last but not least here is my cow head before going in the kiln. Sprayed on white slip followed by the brown/gold plum color brushed on for spots. Going in the gas kiln. Waiting to see results.