Early Century Korean Ceramics

This is a picture of the face of a vase from one of the earlier centuries in Korea. I was greatly impressed with the brushwork for the bamboo trees and leaves. Also the cranes are pretty amazing. I would love to do a piece like this, this basic vase shape is already a form I'm quite comfortable with, but the challenge for me would be the 2D artwork imposed on the vessel. I think it could work if I painted the trees with black slip, but then I'm not sure what color I would be able to do the cranes. The Celadon glaze is also not very vibrant, but at the same time it suits the piece quite well. I'd like to experiment with some celadons more as I did not have to much success with them during salt firings in the summer.

Sarah Davis Inspired Work of Art

Here is a picture of my Sarah Davis inspired piece. I just threw a small, vase-type vessel and then made cuts in the bottom of the piece, leaving empty space. I threw it without a bottom so its sort of like a mini-chimena. I might eventually cut out a design on the main face so i can then have candles in there.

Retreat reflection and other things

Here's a picture of some bottles I found. The design isn't really my kinda style, but I do really like all three shapes and I want to have some sort of bottle concentration this year.

I thought the retreat went really well this year. I had been wondering how fun it was going to be and also how much actual work I would be able to get done and I was pleasantly satisfied with how both of those things turned out. I think we definitely bonded a good deal as a class, and it was really interesting to hear Sarah talk about how her career is going and what its really like to try to make art into a profession. I had never heard of Andy Goldsworthy before but I found going out into nature, especially when your by yourself, is very conducive to art. I had a lot of fun moving and balancing rocks around into some sort of sculpture/shrine. Overall great weekend, thanks for giving us the opportunity to do things like this Amy.