Triangular Shapes made windmills and wild geometry. I made holes and placed them on pedestals for a candle to light from within and hopefully make just enough smoke to keep the mosquitoes away. Got through the bisque firing, whew, but the first two, of three, has smaller holes. I tried to enlarge the holes with …
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Tetrahedron Ceramic Vases
Triangles lead me to tetrahedrons.
New Triangular Shapes in Clay
Ceramic designs to Monumental Sculpture
Triangular slabs
Reconfiguring triangular slabs of clay. These vases are experimenting with the triangle. They are cone 5 white stoneware.
Goops and Sauces and Ceramic Masks
Making a dozen new ceramic masks. The first group are in the kiln right now. Checking out my glazes. Makes me think of goops and sauces. My last group of vases were two colors only. This group calls for a big variety of colors. Yellow, gold, black, green, blue, orange, tan and white. Almost every …
Went to the L A Artshow
Today I went to the L A Art Show at the Convention center downtown. What drew me in were mostly collage works. There was also some woven works presented in a modern way. Lots of painting, some realistic, some more deconstructed.
Iris on wood
The Iris imagery has caught my attention. Now I have tried it on wood. This one is 2 x 2′, more or less. Better in wood or on paper? The paper offers more room for pretty watercolor like bleeds. Wood can do some of that but really does better with a stronger flat opaque paint …
Art Deco Irises
Every so often, I get a bloom on the irises, usually after the rain. I painted from a photo from the front yard after the recent rain here in Los Angeles.
Cobalt Blue Polka Dot Vases by Joyce Lieberman
Hand built with coils and slabs, these cobalt blue polka dot vases and platters have a variety of shapes. They make a village in my mirrored space. As a village of polka dots, they shake and shimmy. Working in cone 5 clay, each vase is about 12 inches tall. They could hold a tall bouquet …
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New “Arabesque Series” of paintings by Joyce Lieberman
A new series of 10 works on paper inspired by a recent canvas that had abstracted Bouquet of flowers with intertwining tendrils, some medallion of flowers motifs and more contrast. Arranged together, comments were made that they looked like ceramic tiles. Individually, they are #’s 1-10 of the Arabesque Series, each with it’s own title. …
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