Kraft Paper Book Red White Black Resist

12/29/14

I like this one. Oh sure it has its issues, but all in all a nice little piece.

Young Bruce in Door County

Summer of 1961? I’m guessing.

New Cottonwood Arts Sketchbook

8.25 x 5”

Nicely bound, opens flat. Doesn’t like water media. Thanks, Cathy!

 

Frontispiece

 

Xmas Drawing

 

Orange Drawing

 

 

Shingles

 

 

Cells

 

Small Cells Watercolor

 

Orange on Black

 

Orange and Blue on Black

 

Dark Grey Horizontals

 

Blue Rectangle

 

Black Zip with White Dots

↑ Late December 2014

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Recent Black Book Drawings

11/29/14 Pismo

 

 

Black Verticals

 

Blue Meander

 

Blue Square

Recent Drawings

 

Blue Grid

 

Blue Verticals

 

Cellular

 

Another Blue Grid

Ceramics

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Acorn squash coil pot sketch

 

Ceramics

Thick slip squeezed out of a squeeze bottle or one of those rubber ear syringes?  

 

Onto a plaster bat?  

And then do a lot of those and assemble them into a larger structure?

 

Hopefully something less lame than this.

Meanwhile, check out this woman’s stuff:

http://lucyjanefoakes.blogspot.com/

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The units would be something like this silicone squiggle. Try not to think about intestines.

Ceramics

• Measure the strips using a square cross section stick; roll & cut.

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Ceramics

Dagmar suggested we take an art class at Laney. The only one that meets M-W 6-8 is Ceramics. Instructor Larry Henderson seems to be an old "thrown stoneware teapot" kind of chappie. I could live with that.

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I’ve gotten all excited about handling clay. I’ll need to know what the studio has to offer. Highfire? Gas kiln? Clay bodies? Is there a slab roller? Can I slip-cast?
I biked down to campus to check it out. Closed today, for Veterans Day? Here’s what I saw from outside the kiln deck:


back of the big kiln


looks like terracotta


Stoneware &  Weber grill. (Hi Dag!) There also seems to be a raku kiln, and a few skutt-type electric kilns for bisquing & lowfire.

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…and here’s what I’d like to make:



Acorn Squash molds. Slipcast if possible, or make coiled blank, soften and hand-press into molds.


Slab vase from top. Texture larger sides with Fred-shredded leather from chair. Smaller sides with those wooden sticks from Mexico?


Vase for Mary. We’ll get some flowers to figure out what shape & size




Bowl for Ramona. Use slumped red graph bowl as form.

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pencil

 

pencil w watercolor

Ashtray Schematic

This was a cheap pressed Mexican ashtray from Cost Plus. I did some coldworking.

 

 

A Tree From the Internet

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Social Weaver Bird Nests in Africa? I regret that I can’t find the source of this image. Something that was on my twitter feed yesterday, and reminded me of the shapes of trees that George Herriman used to draw,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

so I saved the tweeted image and drew it:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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This page is informative: http://www.duskyswondersite.com/animals/social-weavers-hippie-birds/, and has more pictures like this one:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This makes me wonder about the relationship of the Social Weaver Bird Nests in Africa to these mud Swallow? nests under the bridge in Monte Rio California:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Do these birds and their nests have a common ancestor, or is it more like a form follows function, parallel development of similar solutions to similar design problems situation?…which all goes to show that I’m fascinated with shapes and what they might or might not mean. And I guess I’m easily amused.