My latest associations

I finally have made an appropriate hanging device for my latest favorite picture: a mix of coarsely braided wire and rope. But to hang on top of my mind map was a beautiful accident. ... full of potential!
(Keith Tyson is evidently one of my heroes)

Mystery underfire

I fired a kiln yesterday with the intention to have two stoneware glazes go many bright colors, with two different atmospheres in the one kiln; oxidation on one and reduction in the other.  But tragedy stikes when a burner wont light, the pyro is above a burner and the cones are faulty melting before 700ºc ...
No breakages or runs however!

I think I will next time reduce for less time and go higher in temp ... the colors are too dark and I don't think I am a fan.

Gulgong 2013

Thanks to terrible reception in rural Aus, this post is delayed, but the ideas are still cool;
SO,iTs been a long while since I have posted . But irs also been a long while since I felt like this. ...

Im currently at Clay Push in Gulgong and I am having a great time with my new found friends, but there is a feeling of difference and mourning here since the death of Janet Mansfield earlier this year,  and the organizers devotion to her legacy which sets the newer unfamiliar generations aside while. The sense of excitement for future of ceramic art isn't as strong in the atmosphere as in my heart. So what better way to cheer the lot up than with Bubbles !!!

( I was a unicorn, naturally ;)

Last night we NAS  students dresed up and had an excellent time at our own show opening thanks to the encouragement of a select special few.

... for all those who think I was drunk and not guna make it to the next day>>
Here is flirtation pt sunrise;

Okay okay so its about eight now. .. not sunrise,  but not too bad. .. ; p

>>Soon there will be The Bubbling Unicorn's photos uploaded!!
♡♥
Love ~ the Recently Bubbly Unicorn

Studio mess!

Check out my studio! 

Oh therapy can you please fill the void !

Am I retarded or am I just overjoyed?
Thanks Greenday for giving me this great idea- that the two can sometimes be indistinguishable

After looking at a selection of 'outsider art', I have blurred my understanding of what is art as a mode of expression and idea communication. 
To be fair I should give you some photos :
http://sydney.edu.au/sca/research/projects/stoarc.shtml

http://www.rawvision.com/what-outsider-art
http://www.adolfwoelfli.ch/index.php?c=showPic&lang=e&level=3&sublevel=0&id=177&parent_id=45

It looks so free and so intense... I am not sure if what I do is any more informed than those drawings.
Is the pure fact tjat I am attending art school mean that I should therefore be more capable to make an art piece ?
I wouldnt say so, but it would help with conviction in spreading the peices to the world.

"Creativity is intelligence having fun"
~ Albert Einstein

Ceramic painting no more !

Its always nice to have a mid week revelation,  mine was realising I was not doing what I thought I was. 

I have labeled my art as ceramic painting because it's he simple sentence that most effectively communicates my idea to anyone,  but after looking at what I do throughout my media and pieces,  its not just that.

Some are made of ceramic,  but some are made of hot glue and watercolor,  or foil,wood and acrylic... and so I needed to question what I am doing with such materials and means. What is the purpose. ..
And I learn't that by categorizing my pieces into ceramic and painting they are limited by those disciplines particular constraint, i.e painting's canvas shapes, and that is what is getting me stuck at and investigation block.
I don't care for those limits when I make - its not about the painting discourse - I'm making fresh entities. Unique items that struggle to exist and preach happiness despite their journey. They are a hopeful cheer for the awkward, a smile for the odd, an encouragement for individuality!

OPtical Influences

https://sites.google.com/site/djcbriggs/colour2011

THis Guy > D briggs,
Taught me everything I know about colour theories. Its probably the beginning of my opsession. I took his class and it inspired me to look at colours objectively and really seek to play with them, and consider the materials as a means to a colourful end. I really enjoyed his class, even though it was only an introduction into objectively looking at colour- but the field is huge and thats all a little brain can handle in twelve weeks...

Most memorable was the lesson on fluro, glow and reflective nature of different materials to communicate colours. If the image below doesn't work it is a diagram of terms in colour theory found here:  http://addblog.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Color-Theory.jpg

NAnother Mind blowing lecture was the one that demonstrated the Op art effects of colour illusions and juxtapositions:






 AND check out the brown squares in the below image are the same! Refer to;  http://www.moillusions.com/2008/02/color-tile-illusion-new-aspect.html



 
ITS THE SAME GREEN aaaaah!

:O
there is SO much cool out there, perceptions of color change depending on their surroundings, I will have to keep this in mind this week when deciding what to choose as Glaze colours!

Keith Tyson: Cloud Choreography and Other Emergent Systems - Exhibition - ArtLyst

Keith Tyson: Cloud Choreography and Other Emergent Systems - Exhibition - ArtLyst

Keith Tyson's nature paintings are so beautiful as photographs, I can only dream of their brilliance in real life. Oil paints and other materials are allowed to travel on a surface and placed in a freezer so that the details are allowed to eventuate and be sealed in the surface. It is such an interesting method, a sensible controlled experiment. 
I hope such a show one day eventuates to Australia!

Thoughts;
I have wondered at the possibility that these works are stronger as enlarged images, ( I cant tell what the scale is to the nature of these images) as I have found more pleasing and interesting for my amateur attempts.

None of the worry of fire or explosions like my kiln works.

The magic of producing such works on metal is the lightweight conveinence and the crisp detail is possible in the film on metal. Even depth is percieveable in the layers of pigments as surface, texture, gloss, thickness all can vary. 

As a model to use as an example for my work, ill take note of the value of the thick/thin-ness, Its a majestic thing. 

(P.s; Many followers of his nature paintings via blogs find the images ideal for prints on fabric, I hope they learn about the craft of marbling which can provide similar effects.)