Tie it in

Love the idea of tying in other materials to the piece.

Sculptural Vessels by Janice Cormier

 

This work is crazy realistic!! I am using him as an example in my Methods class.

http://avatarsculptureworks.com

Anyone else reminded of Super Mario World?

http://artaxis.org/ceramics/page_joe/joe_page.html

Think tiny...

http://artaxis.org/ceramics/betschart_nate/nate_betschart.html
http://artaxis.org/ceramics/betschart_nate/nate_betschart.html

Her work is AWESOME!!

http://artaxis.org/ceramics/pattee_dandee/dandee_pattee.html

I love the use of glaze!!

http://artaxis.org/ceramics/horie_ayumi/ayumi_horie.html

What do you think this gigantic teddy bear was made of? A tiny clue: It was sold for $11 million. 

I can't copy the image onto here but this is so cool!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/indy2kro/2475596809/

Some ceramic art by Dawson Morgan- Love the tops to these. May just have an idea for my large-scale project... :)

Ginger Steele is a potter who I came across when searching for unique pottery. Her designs are intricate and precise which remind me of the way that I draw. Her choice of shapes for her pieces are also interesting to me because they aren't typical in proportion or style. She salt fires these pieces and the result is gorgeous. I hope to try some of her techniques on some of my work. 

Artist Wes Lang is someone who has inspired me recently. I highly recommend you check out his work.

Silvia Pelissero does beautiful water color paintings incorporating ink, varnish, and acrylic to create elegant dreamlike women. She allows the eye to wander all over the page with her use of color and abstract imagery accompanying the breathtaking faces on the canvas. The viewer is left to interpret these shapes and lines as they please which gives an interactive aspect to the paintings.  

I can't say I know who this is by because it's been in my "Pictures I like" folder for a few years now. I am drawn to this picture/piece because of its elegant and complex geometry. 

This pumpkin teapot is a simple piece from an artist off Etsy. I like the subtle hints of yellow in the body's glaze and the rugged texture of the stems. Also, the lid is really fun because it's cut out jaggedly.

Venus by Kate MacDowell

This hand built porcelain, Venus, made by Kate MacDowell is one of her many works that depict bloodless bodies. Most of her works are invented from careful observation of the human and animal bodies and various organs in detail. Just by looking at it, you can tell how closely and prudently she has observed a particular organ. It's impressive how she uses both beauty and grotesque in her works, which attracts the viewers' attention for quite awhile. 

Beth Stichter: Animals Suspended in a Moment of Tension

This piece is by sculpture Beth Stichter. I really enjoy this piece because it shows a great connection between a human and animal form. It shows how natural each form is, making the transformation gradual, simple and clean because of this.

Her other pieces are very heavy, and use animal forms as well. They show a lot of emotion, and the way she sculpts them and creates the little details really help to animate these animals that "are simply suspended in a moment of tension" (Stichter)

These pieces are massive, and according to Juxtapoz magazine, she uses 2,000 or more pounds of clay at a time. She then has to cut the piece she created into smaller sections, and then hollow the sections, and then reassemble them. Also, in order to fit inside the kiln, she has to cut the pieces again, fire them, and then reassemble with glue and epoxies. This whole process amazes me, and the outcome is obviously well worth it. The technicality as well as the emotion that is represented with each piece is fantastic.

Link to see more work:  http://www.juxtapoz.com/Current/clay-works-by-beth-stichter

"Where's the Remote?"

This is a small sculpture by an artist named Jennifer Rudkin. She makes a lot of animal sculptures that are so animated and adorable! They make me smile every time I look at them.

here's her link to her site if you want to see some more of her work: http://www.rudkinstudio.com/

This is by and artist I found named Kim Westad. I love the elegance in her pieces. She started out as a Graphic designer and ended up making ceramic art. This is her web page if anyone wanted to check her out, Kim Westad.

Andy Warhol is my favorite artists of all time. His inspiration to be different and to try new and creative things is very admirable. Even thought he has nothing to do with ceramic art, I think he is very important to all areas of art.

I really like tea and teapots. I saw this teapot and thought it was awesome! I think the color and the shape are very different and interesting.

Www.michaltrpak.com

This is an artist I recently discovered. I enjoy his slighty macabre themes and the mixture of 3dimensional and 2dimensional work. The repetition of forms within a sculpture, like with the tubes, is a great techinique to join many things together. As a two dimensional artist I apprciate how he syncs the canvas with a three dimensional world. I see more and more artists do this, and I think it is an interesting exploration of space and the interaction with art.

Five McKnight Artists

This clay pottery is a work by five artists (the McKnight's Minnesota Artist Fellowship  recipients). At first it gave me almost a creepy feeling: sensitively  shaped hand and its gesture combined with insects that almost occupy the whole space. It's quite interesting to see a collaborated work of art, in which all the artists have their own style and perspectives. 

This is a piece by a family friend, Heather Hug, who is a teacher and artist at the Riverside Arts Center. I took ceramics classes as a kid from her for years, and her stuff is really weird and interesting-she's awesome! The link to her website is below :)

http://hugmunculus.com/index.html

This guy makes teapots and other functional pieces that look like birch wood. I really enjoy the organic shapes--it's as if he just picked up the pieces from a forest floor. Though they are all birches, he does a good job of giving each its own personality. http://www.ericserritella.com/trompeloeilgalleryfunctional.htm

Modern Mug Collection

Piet Hein Eek at Cibone - Dezeen

www.dezeen.com

 

I thought this collection of modern mugs was smart. Not only did the designer take into consideration the design of the individual cup, but he also wanted them to be atheistically pleasing when they are all together.

Tiled Wall

Sarah Richardson is one of my favorite interior designers. You may know her from HGTV or her numerous articles in interior magazines. Her designs are clean, modern and minimal. I found this tiled wall to be inspiring and hope to bring out some of these elements in my ceramic designs.

Diego Fazio

Diego Fazio is an Italian artist who has caught the eye of many across the internet world through his amazing talent of bringing photographic image to life through paper and pencil. Fazio's incredible drawings have a picture-like appearance and at first glance you would never know they were actual drawings. His technique for the final product stem from his tattooing background which influences the way he draws on paper. The angles of perspective play with the viewer as they are sucked into close up views of people and the detail which accompanies their expressions. For more on Fazio's work, here is his website Diego Fazio

Drawingmachine by Eske Rex (and Spirograph)

I love math and geometric shapes and everything that goes with so my inspiration of the week is spirograph:

Spirograph, of course, being that lovely and frustrating toy (first produced in 1969 -it's a classic) that draws really cool shapes when you put a pen in a gear and move it around a circle (more information)

Eske Rex created the kinetic sculpture "Drawingmachine" which is basically a gigantic spirograph powered by two weighted pendulums, even though he claims to have never heard of spirograph when he made it. It's pretty darn cool and produces stuff like this:

click here to see Drawingmachine in action

Rapunzel by Christina Bothwell

Made by Christina Bothwell This piece of art made of glass/clay is known as Rapunzel, Rapunzel, Let Down Your Hair. It’s interesting how the artist expresses a sense of emotion, perhaps frustration or fear, in a way that Rapunzel’s body is twisted inward and how she grabs her hairs as if something is pulling her forcibly. Many of Bothwell’s artworks include both glass and clay which makes her art unique and novel. In this piece of art, I like the richness and the details of the hairs. The use of bright colors and exquisiteness may contrast the bulky pale body, which makes the piece more fascinating.

http://www.jontyhurwitz.com/yogi_credit_crunch

I saw this today on Juxtapose news feed. He won the noble prize for sculpture and they are pretty cool. He makes seemingly abstact 
Sculptures but when viewed at the right angle in a cylinder they form into a figurative shape.

Junko Mizuno

http://jmnews.exblog.jp/

Junko Mizuno is one of my favorite artist of all time. Her use of line and form, the content, and

 how it translates to different mediums are all things i respect about her. I started by reading her 

comics, but just her prints and illustrations and her vinyl figures are all really interesting.

Shintaro ohata

http://yukari-art.jp/en/shintaro_ohata_en

Shintaro Ohata is an artist i recently discovered. As a painter i am intrigued by his incorporation of three dimensional works
Into his painting, and how he makes the sculptures look like paintings.
Andrea

This is an Oregon Potter by the name of Patrick Horsley.  I went to one of his workshops one time as I was very inspired by his teapots.  I think this is fired to cone 6 (2232 F) on a red stoneware body.  The main body of the teapot is thrown and altered, though it would also be possible to handbuild the entire sculpture.  This came to mind, as one of the students in the class was making a teapot today and I showed this image to her, so thought I would share it with everyone else.  The spout and handle are both extruded. the "tail" is added on.  This is actually a "functional" teapot.  Pat said the inspiration for the form came from shoes, and that his fence was lined with teapots that didn't make it : )  I admire the technical aspect of this, the minimalism of glaze treatment, the simplicity of the form, the visual "movement of the spout, the gesture or posture of the piece has certain "personality" and there is certainly something to be said for persistence and the obvious patience necessary to make this.  Having the patience to take your time and do it right.  Not rushing the process, but being mindful of how it all fits together.  Purposeful, intentful, deliberate, yet subtle.  Not overcomplicating the form with unnecessary embellishment, but letting the form speak for itself.  Pretty sure the glaze application was by spraying to get the subtle variation of purple to blue.  This is a classic example of a Barium Blue glaze.  Barium is somewhat toxic and you are able to substitute strontium carbonate in place of barium, but then its just not quite the same : )

This is a portrait by the famous photographer Richard Avedon. I'm sure a lot of people recognize it because it is one of his most famous photos. I recently just did an interpretation of this photo for my lithography project. I love the style in which Avedon chooses to work in. He uses a plain background in this specific set of portraits and it is amazing how he uses something so simple and nothing in the background to distract the overall subject of the photo. It is all based around the gestures and facial expressions and nothing else.

Recently I've been thinking of wanting to make a collage type work out of clay. I was researching other people's interpretations and I found this one. I love how this one contrasts with the dark wood it's placed on. Hopefully I'll be able to construct something similar to this in the future.

Defy Gravity

It's incredible what clay artists are capable of doing. It seems as if this sculpture took weeks to create. I enjoy this unique balancing clay sculpture.

How is this made?

Elephant

So simple and neat

Laszlo Tompa

I dare you to try and make something like this Jim!