Monday, November 29, 2010

Color Feature of the Week : Brown

Last week we had 500+ views!!
This week the color is PURPLE and thank you all for submitting your work.
I have selected 8 talented Etsy artists here. Do check out their amazing shops.





If you would like to enter for a Color Feature on my blog, you have to do the following TWO steps,

1. Leave a comment on this blog with your favorite items from this week's feature
AND
2. Post your item matching next week's color, "Purple" (Color swatch below) in this ETSY FORUM

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Color Feature of the Week : Teal

Last week we had 600+ views!!
This week the color is BROWN and thank you all for submitting your work.
I have selected 8 talented Etsy artists here. Do check out their amazing shops.






If you would like to enter for a Color Feature on my blog, you have to do the following TWO steps,

1. Leave a comment on this blog with your favorite items from this week's feature
AND
2. Post your item matching next week's color, "Brown" (Color swatch below) in this ETSY FORUM

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Color Feature of the Week : YELLOW

Last week we had 600+ views and ONE SALE!!
Congratulations to artsyclay for the sale!!
This week the color is TEAL and thank you all for submitting your work.
I have selected 8 talented Etsy artists here. Do check out their amazing shops.






If you would like to enter for a Color Feature on my blog, you have to do the following TWO steps,

1. Leave a comment on this blog with your favorite items from this week's feature
AND
2. Post your item matching next week's color, "Teal" (Color swatch below) in this ETSY FORUM

Sunday, November 7, 2010

Color Feature of the Week : BLACK/WHITE

Last week we had 700+ views!!
This week the color is YELLOW and thank you all for submitting your work.
I have selected 8 talented Etsy artists here. Do check out their amazing shops.






If you would like to enter for a Color Feature on my blog, you have to do the following TWO steps,

1. Leave a comment on this blog with your favorite items from this week's feature
AND
2. Post your item matching next week's color, "Yellow" (Color swatch below) in this ETSY FORUM

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

New Form and New Item


As an artist, I always find it challenging and fun to create new forms. I had been thinking of some sort of wall art decoration with tiles for a long time. In my head I had thought of countless ways of making them. Square, round, paisley shapes etc... I wanted a three dimensions look and every process I went through was very tedious and not really getting to the look I wanted. Handbuilding with slabs required a lot of scoring/slipping and making sure the slabs didn't loose form and split. Thought of working with molds, but then I didn't want everything to look exactly the same.
Then just sitting on the couch one day (day dreaming my clay ideas), I made the connection between pillows and the beautiful farbics they are covered in. Aha! I will make them like pillows and decorate them as though they were covered in embroidered fabric.
Then of course started the process of how to make the pillow shapes. Thought of slabs of clay first, but then went back to one of my favorite eqiupment in the studio, my extruder. I made a die shaped in the form of a leaf and there I had my form. Of course there was a struggle with closing up the ends and cleaning them up, but I think I have the process down.
As a functional potter, I sometimes crave for everything to have a function. I know that even wall art has a function, i.e. to decorate a wall. So I decided to turn these into wall clocks. I absolutely love the way they turn out. I also like the fact that the hardware all gets hidden inside the pillow shape.




Interesting thing was when I posted the picture below on facebook, I asked people to guess what they were. I was amazed by the creative ideas everyone had like salt pepper shakers, vases, pencil holder, bread warmer, etc.. Someone finaly did guess them to be wall clocks. But this got me thinking that I could really make so many different items from this same basic shape and different sizes. So keep looking out for some new work coming to my shop as pillow shapes.



The original idea for wall decor is still something I am working on. For starters, I made several smaller size pillows as seen in the picture below. Can't wait till they are fired and installed on a wall.

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