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Comment on The Secret, and Painting and Drawing by The Aesthetic Elevator

The Aesthetic Elevator — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:37:27 +0000

I added technical details to my morning post for your reading edification. At least, I hope it’s edifying . . .

Also, in response to your offer to share low-fire glazes, I’d love to see the recipes!

And I like the idea of the secret in your sculpture above. Similar to something I’ve toyed around with in some of my small wall pieces.

Comment on The Secret, and Painting and Drawing by Julie

Julie — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:55:34 +0000

Cynthia - Blogroll away! I need to do something about my links page; right now I’ve got a huge pile of blogs on Google reader that don’t appear there.

I do tend to call the sculptures geodes, just for the sake of an easy identifier, though I don’t truly have a name for them. Fantastic objects of mystery?

Glazing as painting… hmm… at the moment I’d think of it as a painting technique, a thin coating. Abstract and minimal indeed!

Comment on The Secret, and Painting and Drawing by cynthia

cynthia — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:09:54 +0000

Just a quick add here, when I was in school I was taking an advanced painting class. One of my classmates was using pastels and she called them paintings. In my mind, I always labeled pastels a drawing medium. Hmmm

Comment on The Secret, and Painting and Drawing by cynthia

cynthia — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:07:56 +0000

Thanks so much for visiting my blog! I hope you don’t mind if I added you to my blog roll as I’m always on the look out for other clay related blogs.

The 3 pieces shown above are really interesting - wish I could see them in person. They almost remind me of geodes, but I won’t try to add a label.

Difference between drawing and painting? Having done both, I don’t think there is a difference. Both involve making marks on a surface whether it’s 2d or 3d. Maybe the only physical difference is that one is suspended in a fluid and the other is dry - but that wouldn’t account for pen and ink drawings would it? I might even take it a step further and call glazing painting, in a very abstract and minimalist way.

Comment on Up Close and Personal: Soda Kiln by Julie

Julie — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 03:19:48 +0000

Thanks Michael! I’d enjoy seeing some photos of your kiln - go for it!

Ang, glad you enjoyed it. Did you soda fire in school?

TAE, our kiln is quite big enough to crawl into… I can nearly stand up inside! All of Lillstreet’s kilns are pretty sizeable, it’s nuts.

Comment on Up Close and Personal: Soda Kiln by First Glazes: Line blends « The Aesthetic Elevator

First Glazes: Line blends « The Aesthetic Elevator — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:45:48 +0000

[…] did an ‘expose’ of sorts on her blog of the inside of a soda kiln in a post called Up Close and Personal: Soda kiln. It’s worth looking at her pictures. A friend who is building a house just outside of town is […]

Comment on Up Close and Personal: Soda Kiln by The Aesthetic Elevator

The Aesthetic Elevator — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:45:28 +0000

Crazy awesome! Soda kiln I used, very briefly, in college was brand new and had none of this. Wasn’t nearly big enough to crawl into either . . .

Comment on Up Close and Personal: Soda Kiln by ang

ang — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:51:28 +0000

hi julie, amazing photos, I’m still dreaming of building a soda kiln one day……

Comment on Up Close and Personal: Soda Kiln by Michael Kline

Michael Kline — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:11:44 +0000

Very interesting! I’ve wanted to do something like this.

Comment on April: Dirty Firing #1 by Julie

Julie — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:58:16 +0000

Thanks Patricia! The tubs really crack me up. I’m thinking of making a double-basin sink for my desk at work… to hold two different sizes of paper clips. It will probably also be hilarious. Everybody needs workplace humor!