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3/1 Ocea Otica's makins another one off zombie
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Sat, Jul 19, 2008 7:02 PM
They're coming to get you ,Barbara! [ Edited by: oceaotica 2009-03-01 19:55 ] |
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Sun, Jul 20, 2008 11:31 AM
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Sun, Jul 20, 2008 11:39 AM
The induvidual pieces are so nicely done But I really like seeing then together as a collection. NEATO! |
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Sun, Jul 20, 2008 11:42 AM
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Mon, Jul 21, 2008 10:06 PM
Cass, These mugs are really just exceptional! The decoration on those mugs really makes them very special. You've got this cone 06 glazing down...GREAT JOB! |
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Tue, Jul 22, 2008 1:56 AM
OceaOtica congrats on all these new art pieces, I'm really excited to see them "live" some very original works here, not like anything else.. Babalu, your new ceramics & carves are crazy great as well, you two are just off the chain completely, Thanks for sharing! |
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Tue, Jul 22, 2008 10:50 AM
Thanks for checking the stuff out. My photos dont do justice to some of them, and some of them i think look better in photographs. You will have to judge for yourself at the show. [ Edited by: OceaOtica 2008-07-22 10:54 ] |
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Tue, Jul 22, 2008 8:20 PM
Cass those new pieces rock! I hope to be able to talk to you about doing some of those new zombies for me to add to my first one. |
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Tue, Jul 22, 2008 8:52 PM
That was a fun night. |
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Wed, Jul 23, 2008 7:29 PM
Cass look forward to the show .Your mugs and bowls look absolutely incredible. |
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Mon, Aug 4, 2008 11:20 AM
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Mon, Aug 4, 2008 1:12 PM
I really like this piece - well done! |
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Mon, Aug 4, 2008 1:28 PM
Thanks LOL, |
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Mon, Aug 4, 2008 1:40 PM
Wow!! Really great stuff going on here! Dig the Zombo mugs! |
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Mon, Aug 4, 2008 2:22 PM
Sir, YOU are mad. Quite simply mad I say? Technicolor yawn...not at all, BooogedY-Boo! :D |
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Mon, Aug 4, 2008 4:31 PM
TJ, thanks for checkin in. Hope to see you in a few days. Chongolio, glad you dig the zombies. Fun, but very time consuming to make. Aloha kaua [ Edited by: OceaOtica 2008-08-04 16:33 ] |
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Wed, Aug 6, 2008 10:53 AM
Here is a peak at my next mug release, Kapriman. This design is about 65% completed. I started sculpting him in September 2007, but had to stop due to impending move. Because this sculpture was done in water based WED clay to get a more rough kinda slightly off kilter PNG carving look, i molded and cast it in resin knowing the sculpture would not survive till i could get back to finishing it. With the PNG mugs I try to retain a less polished look sculpturally. I love PNG carvings for their natural, sometimes very rough feel and try to retain that feel with my designs. This is a pretty large piece. Not seen here is some pieces that will get cast separately and attached at the greenware stage. Will hopefully finish up the sculpture and mold in the next month. Will do a small run, maybe 25 total pieces, some hand painted. I will try to remember to take progress pics in line with Babalu's ceramics thread. Aloha kaua [ Edited by: OceaOtica 2008-08-06 11:02 ] |
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Wed, Aug 6, 2008 11:51 AM
Nice! I like this one. |
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Thu, Aug 7, 2008 12:35 AM
Hey OceaOtica! |
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Thu, Aug 7, 2008 10:35 PM
Aloha!! Great designs, love the classic horror pieces!!! Some of the mugs look like they are inspired by Sepik River designs... love that whole look. Ceramics are one arena I would love to dive into!! Tiki Dirk |
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Sat, Aug 9, 2008 2:50 PM
oh Wow! You do amazing ceramics!! Love this last one you are keeping!! super original design and glassing!! |
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Sun, Aug 10, 2008 5:26 PM
Here is a little pet project thats been rollin around the old brain for sometime. The WIW Zombie, AKA What If Witco had done a zombie. want to do a number of different designs strictly as a personal project. Its an interesting challenge to convey the image in another style that is very simplistically stylized. Hope you dig. [ Edited by: oceaotica 2008-08-14 14:38 ] |
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Tue, Aug 12, 2008 11:23 PM
[ Edited by: oceaotica 2008-08-13 08:34 ] |
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Wed, Aug 13, 2008 8:22 AM
Cass! WOW!!! Way cool! Now if I could just teleport to the Ti. LOL Someday me and you are sitting down for drinks brother. |
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Wed, Aug 13, 2008 8:35 AM
I'm looking forward to getting a Kapriman mug. Those witco zombie pendants rock! |
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Wed, Aug 13, 2008 4:57 PM
stoked to see what ur up to...everything is looking insane...altho the beauty monster is particularly inspired!! |
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Thu, Aug 14, 2008 8:09 AM
Hey, Thank you everyone for the compliments. |
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Thu, Aug 14, 2008 8:34 AM
Hey! the pendants are wicked! |
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Fri, Aug 29, 2008 11:24 PM
a little update for those interested. [ Edited by: OceaOtica 2008-08-29 23:25 ] [ Edited by: oceaotica 2008-10-28 16:42 ] |
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Fri, Aug 29, 2008 11:28 PM
Look forward to seeing what you come up with! |
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Sat, Aug 30, 2008 6:09 AM
YAY Cass!! It's so cool to see all this killer clay work happening on TC lately. Your new mug looks like a winner! I would love to visit the Muntiki studios sometime, those guys do some AMAZING things there! Have fun experimenting with the matt glazes...there is just soooo many different pre-made flavors on the market to choose from these days, it's a bit overwhelming. I need to start making a shit load of test trees. |
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Sat, Sep 27, 2008 1:35 PM
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Wed, Oct 15, 2008 1:34 PM
droppin in for a quick update, will probably be absent from the forum for a while. been fitting some handmade experiments in the mix as i can. they are dry, will probably go into the kiln by the weekend. Going with some rough textures. Hopefully they make it outa the kiln okay. Will post pics of the Asaro Mudmen Mask Mugs later, have some handmade and cast/handbuilt ones in various stages.
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Wed, Oct 15, 2008 2:43 PM
Diggin' those Marqs! Good job! |
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Wed, Oct 15, 2008 5:59 PM
Love the new work. I've been wondering what you've been up to. Looks like a lot! |
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Thu, Oct 16, 2008 12:26 PM
Those marq mugs are beauty. They should be living under century old jungle creeps... |
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Thu, Oct 16, 2008 1:14 PM
I love looking at your work. Thank you for sharing. |
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Fri, Oct 17, 2008 10:36 PM
Cass, It's really cool seeing you hand building. The Marq is my favorite of the two as well. Love the texture! Let's get together soon. I might be hosting the Chop in Nov...think you might be a go? We need to kick it together for a minute. |
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Tue, Oct 21, 2008 1:05 AM
Great work Cass as always... gotta get together soon! |
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Wed, Oct 29, 2008 11:14 AM
here are the first cast/handbuilt Asaro mudmen mugs. they are dry and ready to go to the kiln. the third one i have done, not shown, still needs to dry a few more days before i do the finish work, but it has the boars tusks and teeth. hope you dig. i love making these. will do variations on the same masks. coloration will be based on the few colors i have seen in photos of the masks, i assume mainly based on the earth they use to build them. Also will make some from some other regions. |
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Wed, Oct 29, 2008 3:36 PM
Lookin' cool! What it the clay body on the Marquesan mugs? Looks like it has dark & light bits like granite? I've been playing with porcelain tusks for an upcoming Wild Boar mug, hope yours work out for you :) |
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Thu, Oct 30, 2008 5:55 PM
You got a nice png posse going on! What's hiding in the background there? |
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Fri, Oct 31, 2008 7:38 AM
These guys are just plain awesome Cass! The texture is "right on" with these guys! Can't wait to see how you approach the glazing. Hopefully, you can make it down for the Chop. It would be great fun to kick it in the studio with you for a day. Keep cranking them out brother! |
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Fri, Oct 31, 2008 2:51 PM
Thanks everyone for the kind words. Mad D, you had it figured out before i messaged you. Kaimuki, the background is a unglazed handbuilt Asaro mudman, the two glazed pieces are the handbuilt glazed skullitiva and double marq bowl seen on top of the page in greenware. Babs, hope to make it to your place in November. Really want to pick your brain about the process of rolling out and pinching those tumblers and odder shaped mugs. I really dig making the mudmen not only for the handbuilding on cast pieces, but also because i do a lot of add on texturing when the greenware is leather hard. Seems to capture the muddy textury surface that the actual masks have pretty well, though no reference picture i have found shows the masks close enough to really see the surface that well. Also gives and effect that sculpting alone does not produce well. We will see what happens, these go in the kiln hopefully tonight. I was a little impatient in the drying process, and had some surface cracking. we will see if my repair and retexturing fixed that issue after they come out of the kiln. Glaze wise, not really going crazy here, sticking more with the colors and look of the masks. Neat colors though, white with hints of blue and grey, a cobalt blue (what some PNG artisans paint the Asaro mudmen mud figurines), a slightly ochre yellow, and a sepia red. the fun will be doing work ups with the glazes themselves in stead of underglaze. |
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Fri, Oct 31, 2008 11:02 PM
HoT PINK BABy! |
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Tue, Nov 4, 2008 2:12 AM
here is my third Asaro mudman. i put this one on the backburner, just got to some underglazing tonight. I kept the boars tusks a bit thick to give them some more strength. |
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Tue, Nov 4, 2008 11:52 AM
Beautiful. I had to look up the Asaro mudmen to find out who they are, this is such an educational site :) Inspired by a mask...I like the way the eyes and mouth look open to preserve the mask illusion. |
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Wed, Nov 5, 2008 5:45 PM
MadDog, hope you got the chance to look up the Asaro mudmen. Such an interesting lore. These mugs are dear to me. Based on functional masks, of course a kick for me being a makeup effects artist, they are interesting to create because of the process of replicating and stylizing something so crude. These pieces are not elaborate highly detailed sculptures, which is a nice break from other work i do. This is more like model building/propbuilding/makeup fx/museum scene construction all roleed into one. Highly enjoyable for me. Sometimes its the simplest, rawest, crudest imagery that has the most impact to me. enough of my blabberin, here is Asaro mudman #1 finished. |