Things are getting so busy in the studio ! I'm almost done with my piece for the BFA show, & am working on a huge bottle project for my mold making class that is turning into an entire exhibition worth of objects. I still don't have a camera, so I've been snapping some really awful pictures of the things around the studio !

These are a bunch of cups I was too uninterested in to put handles on, so I glazed them in really thick layers of studio glaze, which turned out mostly nonfunctional & really gross. I made some really great new textures & color combinations I can't wait to try out on some other things in the next couple months !

 I finally got a bunch of bottles & my BFA pieces bisques the other day, but this kiln was actually the rudest when we started him up. I was so scared we weren't gonna get one of the burners to work, because I feel like that's exactly the luck you get doing things so close to a deadline.

I've been working through some feelings, or the ideas of feelings, with the collection of slip cast bottles I'm making which is a lot more of an undertaking than I realized until I put these 25 bottles on my table last night.

 & this is the whole thing ! I'm excited to start new projects after this week is over !!!!

This semester, Im taking a mold making class. So far, I've made 4 bottle molds & a goofy cat. I'm really starting to enjoy the process & have been thinking of so many things to make 100 of.

 I really love how these forms are casting & am having so much fun altering them, plus I've gotten up to producing 12 bottles a day while I'm working on other things.

 Now that i have so many, I get to really play around with what I want them to look like. Hint: I have literally no idea yet !

& then there's my first kiln of the semester 

 But actually, I moved into a new studio & am already outta space ! Things are happening !

The semester is almost over, & I realized this week how much I've produced. For whatever reason, it really doesn't feel like I've done much (probably my lack of motivation), but there you go !

So at any rate, here's the bulk of my creative initiative since we last talked about it, hope it isn't too boring/ expected !

As it turns out, these frames I've been making are super fragile, so I've been trying to figure out how to piece the broken scraps together to keep functional.

I'm really not having the best time learning mold making, mostly via breaking everything, so I've been trying to use different mold making processes to fit together for my final installation. So far press & sprig molds are my ~*fav*~ (I hardly slip cast anything anymore !)

These are the sprig molds I made of 6 little seashells I found in a shelf I thrifted last year. I haven't tried them out, but I have high hopes for these pups~

Basically, I'm just producing as many multiples as I can before the semester ends. It's so tedious & uncreative at this point, but there you go !

I made a press mold outta this guy that I can't wait to try out asap !!!

So far, these are the only finished pieces I have, but it's way too exciting seeing them after all the trouble I've gone through trying to get them to work !!! (f/ my handbuilt ferrel cat series hehe)

That's all I have on the ceramics front, but I'll try to remember to post something about the goofy paintings I've been making or something later, blah blah blah. Hopefully this mold making business will come together for my final next month. I have some pretty kitchy plans for the final installation, hehe.

So by some miracle, I ended up making a killing at the school art sale in November, & weirdly enough, all of my funny ceramics sold like literal hotcakes in that there were even a couple people fighting over a tiny albino pig head, a white polka dot nose with snot green interior, & a vase of my right foot. Since this realization that people seem to appreciate/ want my insane humor, I've decided to make as much goofy junk as I can. Which is a perfect segway into the things I've made in my ceramics class the last two weeks. It's a mold making class, but I'm not quite there yet, so I've been sculpting tiny things during my down time.

So that's it (the two pieces in the back are really nice, too, but not as fun as the rest of the stuff, so I didn't photograph it)

This is a teeny tiny double cheeseburger cup. For some reason, cheeseburgers are my go-to mindless busywork. 

So this is the first piece in my ~ferrel cat~ series, inspired by real cats, of course, hehe. They all have the sweetest little cat junk.

This guy looks so much nicer sitting on a flat surface, but you get the idea.

I think this is my fav, modeled after my cat's "cone cat" posture.

& this is the newest addition to the family, look how sweet his little tale is.

Alright, so I've been thinking about an inbreeding project for the last several months, & this is the first actualization of the series !!!! I think there was an episode of 30 rock featuring an inbred wedding or something (I've yet to find proof that this is a real thing, but I remember it pretty specifically, though the sitcom it was on defeats me, maybe it was Parks & rec or Whitney ?). Either way, my next project is a pitcher with a chin-neck via Kenneth as a spout, hehe.

The real point is that this is what my nails looked like after class where I threw, handbuilt, & made a paster mold. Ugh, life's rough, & my nails are now filed down so short so I can actually use my hands in class without slicing chunks of clay outta everything I touch.