As folks who have been following my twitter might have guessed, I’m about to head out for a woodfiring! I’ve just finished packing up several months worth of critters, who will loaded into the kiln this Saturday and Sunday. They’ll be unloaded in two weeks on Saturday, November 28th.
Most of these guys will then be going directly to the Island Gallery on Bainbridge Island, for their December show, “Beauty and the Beasts”. I’ll be featured along side their annual fashion show. Some will be coming to my studio’s annual holiday sale and party. Stay tuned to my twitter for updates on the firing!
I’ve recently been putting together some timelapse videos of pieces from March 2009 firing. I have a couple more videos lined up, but they all still need to have the notes put in, the slowest step. I’m also planning on making a few new videos of my saggar fire pieces – I’m looking forward to seeing the burnishing process via timelapse.
Anyway, for now, here’s a timelapse of the creation of “Berry Eater”
Despite the late hours I’ve been spending in the studio, I’ve also been playing around with a twitter account. You can follow my twitter account here! It’s mostly photos of in progress critters, along with random observations and so forth. Now then, back to the studio.
I’d mention this show a while ago, and before I knew it, it’s almost the opening!
This Saturday from 3pm to 8pm, stop by Madera Woodworking in Tacoma, WA, to explore an amazing collection of Northwest Woodfire. The opening is longer than normal to accommodate everyone who might wander by. I’ll probably be at the gallery between 5 and 8. I think I’ll even try and finally explore Tacoma’s famous glass museum!
The line up for the show looks incredible: John Benn, Colleen Gallagher, John Harris, Sam Hoffman, Terry Inokuma, Chris Knapp, Jen Lee, Andy Lewis-Lechner, Susan Lochner, Hiroshi Ogawa, Reid Ozaki, Erin Solberg, and Natalie, Warrens.
I’m also going to be using the show to unveil “Glowback”, a creature that I’ve been working on for a while. I teamed up with my husband to wire up LEDs and a microcontroller to cause the back of the beast to glow. I have an entire flickr set up documenting the whole process. If all goes as planned, we’ll finish up the last bit of work tonight, and I’ll take it to the gallery tomorrow.
Here in Seattle, we’ve been snowed in since last Thursday. We’ve gotten a total of nine inches, with another couple predicted tonight. In most cities, this would be no problem. However, the city of Seattle has about 25 snowplows – less snow removal capability the the SeaTac airport. Even as the city’s been warming up, the roads have been freezing again every night in to two inch thick sheets of ice. Between that, the city’s use of sand (not salt), and the fact that no one up here knows how to drive in the snow, we’ll probably be stuck here until New Years. Well, at least I’ve been staying useful.
I recently got myself a scanner (well, maybe it was an early Christmas present), and have been enjoying the heck out of it. I’ve gone through my old sketchbooks, finding interesting sketches to scan. I made one or two nice prints for people, recreations of early sketches of critters they now own. I’ll upload a few more sketches the next few weeks.
I also took the time to finally finish up another time lapse video. This the the video for the creation of “Conversation #3”. The music from the soundtrack to “Paprika”, a truly bizarre and spectacular anime movie by Satoshi Kon. I recommend going to youtube to watch the timelapse in higher resolution.
