The strike of inspiration continues...Today I was able to continue work on a piece that was started back in January. I wouldn't have believed it was that long ago until I looked up the Blog entry -yikes! "The Strike of Inspiration" was about some fiberwork that I had seen by artist, Judy Perez and was so inspired by her Blog banner "Painted Threads," that I wanted to make a sculpture of a Humboldt Squid and a swimming Nautilus Shell. The clay work went pretty fast, fired well and then I opted to use some matte glazes instead of the Majolica glazes I first mentioned in my earlier Blog.
This week I finally picked up some 1/2" Cold Rolled Round Steel Stock for the squid tentacles. My first choice was to use at least
3/4" - 1" but at more than $60 bucks a stick for the 3/4" the 1/2" would work fine ($25), Plus, with the thicker size comes added weight which starts to not be very practical for your average wall mounted sculpture. Bending that round stock was a BEAR! I'm not used to hand bending such thick material -I took a couple of Aleve after that workout!
The Squid and the Shell have holes on their backsides that I drilled while still leather hard clay. The plan (today) is to wire the body over the tentacles o
nce all of the hot, welding and metal work is done. I'm thinking there will be some additional sealife embellishment including the strings of beadwork I like to use. I'm not sure what else... I'll weld up the Nautilus tentacles tomorrow.
7 comments:
oh yeh , looking good..
I thought if very weird indeed when I just read your post and you mentioned the banner of Judy Perez' blog Painted Threads since I had read her blog entry right before coming to your blog. (I follow both)
Hi Ang! Sunny and warm? we're catching up... sort of ;o)
Hi Delores, thank you for the post. HOW MAGICAL WAS THAT?!! Thanks for following too! Isn't her work just delicious? If I already have enough mediums going in my studio but Judy makes me want to jump into fiber as well!
This is going to be sooooo cool! Awesome combination of materials. I think the matte glaze was a good choice too.
Hi Cynthia! ALMOST as cool as the Kimono's...
Yeah, the Majolica test glazes I used were way to shiny -I have a lot of experimenting/learning still to do when it comes to glazing. It seems glazing is starting not to be my forte!
Oooooh that is looking so cool! I love the way the clay bodies came out, that orange is gorgeous.
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