Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Pumpkins of Pickaway




In the town where I am from, Circleville OH, we have a huge anual festival every year called "The Circleville Pumpkin Show." The entire town shuts down for a week, while the citizens ride rides, watch parades, and eat every kind of pumkin food you can imagine. The past two years The Junior Women, a femal group that does charity work, sponcered "Pumpkins of Pickaway." About 20 local artists, icluding myself paint ceramic pumpkins to sell at Pumpkin Show. The proceeds of the sale are used to sponcer young aspiring artists from Circleville. This year is The Circleville Pumpkin Show's 100th anniversary, so 100 ceramic pumpkins will be on display. Two of them are Ohio State Buckeye Pumpkins that I created. Here are some pictures of them.

Monday, September 04, 2006

Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Life Drawing



This is one of my better conte drawings from Beginning Life Drawing at OSU

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Monday, August 07, 2006

Monday, July 31, 2006

Pill



Humming Bird (Glass and Electrroplated)-wow





This is my first glass cast. The process is very involved and somewhat time consuming. First the object, in this case the humming bird, must be formed out if wax. The wax is kinda tough to work with and often has to be melted down and made into workable wax sheets. After the wax object is made it must be attached to sprues and a base to make it a proper positive. After the wax is ready to go it is attached to a base and framed with four boards that must be clamped together. Clay is used to secure the cracks and then 50/50 mix (plaster and silicone) is stirred wit cold water and poured over the wax object. After one hour the boards and clamps are removed and the wax object is incased in the mold on 5 sided. The 50/50 block is set on a steamer and the wax is melted out. That takes one to three hours. Then the mold is put in a wax enkneeling cylce for two day. After that the glass frit is poured in the place where the wax used to be. It goes in the kiln for five days, the mold is broken away, and boom-a glass replica of the wax mold. The glass is coldworked and maybe even electroplated!

Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Clay Babies

Candy Shrooms


These glass mushrooms made it into a gallery exhibition at Glass Axis. I am so proud.

Saturday, July 22, 2006

Monday, July 10, 2006

Grandpa's Whiskers









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Sculpture 307


This is the nautilus shell that I constructed as a body extension piece for Sculpture 307. Over 50hrs and $250 smakers later, here it is;)

Monday, July 03, 2006

Independence


I have a blog site! I feel so "with it." I wish we did not have class tonight so that I could go to Red White and Boom. What a bummer. Anyway. this is my first post and I'm quite proud of it.