Post #425646 by little lost tiki on Wed, Dec 24, 2008 8:49 AM

Aloha Ohana...
This nagging feeling of only sharing one new piece and a stoopid
picture of "Mr. Personality" with alls y'all yesterday
really bugged at the cranium....
So, may i present a brief history of some of my handmade mugs,and then some concept sketches for future ones...
If you haven't been to Babalu thread,ya need to visit it...
His Clayjams are like a Clown Car filled with geniuses!
:)
Anyways, i think i shared this first one on here...


did this one at the studio in Orange,before Oasis
when everyone who was in the area stopped by!
Babs set up a clay table and we had a fun,
but brief time
making stuff...
hence the retarded naive charming quality of this one!

This next one was done at a ClayJam after i had spent most of the day glazing up the first...Babs has these cool retro lamps that he based the diamond motif on....
Rick has a wonderful habit of coming up with "canvases for us to
play on....i could have never pulled off that triangular shape
or the smooth accurate diamonds...
so i scrawled some very simple tiki faces into the diamonds
just for fun-no accuracy-more the spirit of tiki....
Thanks to Netflix and the OC library
i began watching documentaries and artist videos
and had been into Picasso lately because of his rawness
aggression and playful challenge of his art.
besides his artist and model series of drawings
his ceramics were incredible!
He tackled it with abandon
High Fire? No! Low-fire it!
let's see what happens..
he took risks and just went for it...
and kicked BOOT-!
Miro kicked a lot of convention out the window with his ceramics also...

Anyways, I think that's the fun of these Clayjams
Playing/Learning/Experimenting
all in the Spirit of Art! (pronounced "AHHT")
Anyways, i was thinking of those courageous daring artists
and shot from the hip with the glazes...
and it turned out really really neat!
Both matte and shiny glazes were used to color in the
simple little tiki faces..
enough of the long intro....
Sooo!
babble!babble!

Thanks Rick!

Anyways, a few months back,after the first
CLAYPLAY at the studio with Ricky and all
the sketchbook appeared
so i draws in it!
so here's some future plans for mugs..
gonna do this first one next....

Happy Moai/Sad Moai
and here's some others!





There!
I feel better now!
Art posts with just one picture are pathetic...
unless you're Clysdalle lol!
Then it's "normal" :)
don't worry, he never reads this! :)

MELE KALIKIMAKA gang!
Thank you ALL for such a great year
filled with learning and laughs and love!
it's a blessing to have so many cool and genuine friends...

during vacation
Read the articles on Squid and moi in Tiki magazine's latest issue!
JonPaul makes us look good!
he's like a literary plastic surgeon
givin us an artistic nip and tuck!

Miss you Squid!
Viva le Ceramic!