Slip-Casting and Hand Building in February

The last couple of weeks have been filled with slip-casting and while I am still involved heavily with it, I felt it was time to get back to hand building some new work.  I really enjoy both processes, but with hand building I feel I have a more personal touch with the material.  Pictured first are some slip-cast bottles that I am making to go with a wall piece (the gears, not pictured), and the other photographs show the earthenware "Jackhammer", that I am building with slabs, pinch-pot method, and press-molds.  I know traditionally sculptures are made from the ground up, but in some cases I have found it to be easier to build upside down for certain sculptures due to scale and weight issues.  This is the case with this sculpture, so i thought I would post some pictures to better illustrate this.

Slip-Casting in February

Recently I've been trying to finish up a wall piece that I've been working on and off for about a year.  I also have been slip-casting a couple of forms for two other pieces that I am working on as well.  I'm hoping to load up a bisque firing this weekend, and hopefully I will get some more forms slip-cast.  I also will have to finish up weathering the other forms I'm still working on.  Pictured are some of the forms for the wall piece, which are undergoing the "weathering" process, as well as a bottle form to go along with another wall piece, and finally the other slip-cast parts to create a small sculpture, which I plan on creating multiples of, for a different piece.

New Sculptures 2012

I just wanted to post a few pictures of some of my new work, that I've been working on for my Thesis.  I had been really busy trying to finish up these pieces, so I could add them to my portfolio.  I'm still working on two other larger pieces for my thesis work and still have some new work to create this semester as well.  At the moment I have a kiln firing some of the pieces I will need for both of those pieces, that are still in progress.  I hopefully will one of those pieces finished in a week or two. 

I developed the glazes for the "track" part and the respirator mask when I was taking glaze calculation last semester.  The glazes are all low-fire (cone 06).  The blue and orange piece was finished with cold glazes.