Wow. This is so weird. I got out of sculpture class so early today that I had time to go to the bank, the grocery store, play a few songs on the piano downstairs, make raspberry tea lemonade concentrate, count cash, and eat lunch and dessert-- oh, and blog. Super weird. All of that before I have to be to art history class at 12:30. I still have an hour to spare. I guess I could study for my geology test or see what torture my art history professor might be inflicting upon us today, but I feel like blogging. The more I blog, the more inspired and motivated I become. I get back to where I used to be when I had time to write in a journal. Things have just been so crazy lately that I don't feel connected to my inner deep-thinking self anymore. I got into a deep discussion yesterday, but that was a rare thing.
I have been taking photos of my work... so maybe I will just turn this into a photo blog because everyone loves pictures so much, including myself :)
For work, I have been doing a series of mushroom sculptures-- trying to build up a good collection of them up until the day of Halloween:

Cantharellus cinnabarinus

Cortinarius violaceus

Coprinus atramentarius

Boletus frostii

And here are some other new ceramic photos :)

Flying Hat: hand building class

Cups! This is a small collection of the surfaces and glazes that I have been experimenting with lately. The mug is glazed with White Shino, and the Lily cup is glazed with a clear celadon recipe I found on Ceramic Arts Daily. The rest of the cups are salt fired except for the tall tumbler, which is soda fired.

Tea bowls: Salt, Wood, Salt.

Soda Fired Bottle (from spring semester)

Wood Fired Bottle. I didn't apply anything on top of the clay for the firing-- no slips, no laterite, no glaze. I just had really good kiln karma for this bottle. When they pulled it out of the kiln I saw other people looking at it with envy, and I proudly went up to claim it :) it was a truly happy moment. I think they were surprised that it was mine.

Salt Fired Slip Transferred Portrait-- I mentioned when I was starting on this idea earlier, but this is the actualization. I have moved away from strictly doing faces to experiment with other images, but this is the general idea. I am pretty pleased with how this one turned out. Anyway, I suppose that's all for now... I better get ready to go to art history class. ;)