Studio Visit: Rhythms of Daily Work
7 years ago in #art by natureofbeing (69)
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Your work is incredibly time-consuming and laborious. And at the same time, the result is so amazing that all efforts are worth it! I never cease to be excited about this process and your diligence and talent.
Thank you @anna-mi!
Wonderful post as always! very informative and a cool project! I've always been curious about the kiln temperatures and timing :) I don't know why, but it seems like such a mysterious process. I can't wait to begin working with clay and get a wheel and kiln!
Thanks @nickh725! I'll be selling some of my stuff before I move this summer so you may be able to get a few items at cut-rates to start your endeavors :-)
You'll have to let me know! that would be wonderful :) so the move is official now?!
Yes the move IS official even if I have a whole lot of trepidation about it! I'll be using my kilns up until the move but "pre-selling" ahead of time so people can just come and get them. If you're interested in these, let me know, the rest will be sold in a studio sale late in June.
I would very much like to be able to do such a work. Learning the intricacies of this business and ..
But I'm not sure I can do it. You are an excellent artist and you have experience. I respect you The music you share is also wonderful!
thank you
thank you @artizm for your always supportive comments and upvotes, so glad you my posts are offering something!
Hello, I am so glad I found you here. Really nice work and loveful environment. I am painter and I´d like to start with ceramics also - to make my paintings as reliefs. Thanks for sharing! Following
Hi @jecminek, so glad to meet you as well! Just took a look at your blog and really like your work as well. I hope you do try ceramics and I'm happy to offer some tips if you have questions :-).
Looking at what you have to do has me wow'd, looking at what you've done has me more wow'd. It is brilliant that you can clearly detail out your every step and progress, youre doing a awesome job
Otherwise you might make errors or worse cut yourself
I wish you more strength and Godspeed to complete the project
All the best
Thank you so much @mistakili!
Great idea to accompany the experience with some music. How come you print out 106% zooms, is it to enlarge some items compared to what you originally planed?
I think life is one big puzzle. Some see it, others don’t.
Lol - yes a big puzzle for sure :-)
I enlarge some parts to 103 and 106 depending on how much the piece will shrink in the kiln. Some shapes, some sizes shrink more than others. Thanks for this question @edouard.....I should have explained this and maybe this is a subject itself for a future post.
Yeah, I do think it would make a cool post. I would be curious to find out what shapes shrink more than others!
Oh, I just love your work!
My friend gave me all of her mosaic-making equipment several years ago as her illness meant she just didn't have the energy to be able to make use of it. I have the same illness and so now the equipment has sat unused in the cupboard for several years as I haven't had the energy either.
However, now I am improving somewhat and I am facing the delicious prospect of maybe someday soon being able to spend some of my time playing and experimenting. It's a very exciting prospect!
I'm so glad I've found and followed you on here as your work is beeeeeyotiful.
Hello @sue-stevenson, fingers crossed for you to be in better and better health every day and soon to be able to do all the things you yearn to including mosaic-making! Thank you for your compliments :-)
Thank you for your well-wishes :)
Oh my. That looks like a really complex drawing @natureofbeing. Lovely to see some more of the tiles.
In those octagonal kilns, can you fire number of tiles at once? Are those slots for removable shelves?
Thanks for following my process Gillian :-)Hi @gillianpearce! Those slots are for the electrical elements within the kiln. Those elements are coiled wires that run all the way around each section of the kiln. As they heat up, they heat the kiln and the tiles. I fire about 5-6 shelves of tile for each firing.
That must take a lot of firings then for a project the size of that swimming pool one! 😁
yes, MANY firings :-), over a hundred
Oh wow, this is beautiful what you are doing! Are your customers requesting mosaics for inside or outside? I bet, you're spending a lot of time laying tiles for the pools of fancy mansions..
Hello @lisaliebeslust, I make a lot of exterior tile but mostly interior these days. Pool projects are really fun but I've only had 2 of those...hoping for more over time. And I only make the tile and don't install it. That's a different skill set for sure. Thanks for your support!
More fascinating process. And I'm with you on the concentration end of things, it's pretty much silence all the time during creativity. "Sshh Kitty, sshh". I think it comes from years of working in the quiet of the woods.
I do have a ? for you. It might be dumb, or answered already, but anyway....do you stamp a number on each piece, before you fire it? So you can keep track of where it goes? Or do you just memorize it, since you are SO familiar with it all from drawing to end result. Or is it a big jigsaw puzzle, till you get them on paper where they belong? Though a fun challenge, seems it would take WAY too much time to do it that way.
Just curious....seems like you end up with a LOT of pieces of tile that look very similar. And I think I know you can't put a piece of paper in the kiln, at 1900 and whatever degrees F.
Looks like it's coming along well. Can't wait to see the final photos one day soon. Cheers.
It's a very good question @ddschteinn! The short answer is that I don't number the pieces, but keep little sections together all the way through the process. The longer answer is - I cut a small area of tile and number this area. I mark the outlines of this section/area on the master drawing so I know all of parts in it as well as the outlines. That section once cut stays together with all its little pieces on the kiln shelf through the bisque firing and then when I glaze it, I look at the outlined area on the master drawing to make sure I know what each piece is - leaf or sky or whatever. It stays together through the glaze firing and at the end when it's time to assemble all of the pieces, either I am familiar enough with it, or I can again refer to the master drawing if I get confused. Does that make sense? I think you've just inspired a post heh heh ;-))
Thanks, that makes great sense. I can imagine without a very straightforward 'system', things could get a bit wonky. And the need to stay very well organized is very obvious. I better stay away from intense tile-art creation ( :
I think you also need a LOT of shelves...
I say, go for it, sounds like a great post idea. Glad I could tweak the idea curve a bit with my Curious D-isms.
Hahaha, yes a LOT of shelves indeed :-)
And I always enjoy your comments-conversations @ddschteinn, thank you for taking the time!
It’s like a big beautiful jigsaw puzzle, you must have a really organized mind😉
Lol, well in some ways it IS very organized, some ways it's a junk pile :-))
I am amazed at the intricacies of your tile work. It is like a painting has exploded or that we can peer into the head of the artist and see the view of an idea expanding into little shiny or cool grey pieces.
As I said, I have never done kiln work other than a few pieces here and there. I have known potters in my life but never got into it myself. Maybe We'll have to get an old kiln for my Boathouse \summer studio and when you come to visit in the Summer we can play. Although, if you are taking a break, maybe a kiln is the last thing you'd want to see ;) But we could take breaks watching the waves and sipping G & T's
I Love seeing your process and the added music really does bring you into the experience more, great idea to you and @opheliafu.
Lol, it IS kind of like the art piece in my head exploded and all the pieces are splayed out separately!
Yes playing with clay is good and I'm almost always game for that. You don't have to have a kiln for this either, I can take our work with me and fire it (providing I drive). Yes to G&Ts while we watch waves or play with clay ;-))
I really enjoy these glimpses into your creative process!
thanks Eric, so glad to hear it :-)
Nice ceramic work with nice perspective
Weldon @natureofbeing
thank you @peks!