this and that: 2011

Monday, December 5, 2011

Finals Flash

Two more weeks left of school. Mostly I just have to glaze and tie together all my work. Below is a roughly full-sized self-portrait bust i recently "finished", pre-firing. It is still in the kiln. I am anxiously awaiting its removal, but not really because I am not its biggest fan. It will bode me well for my future though in terms of what i learned though, I'm sure.

Below my bust, is just a piece I did for fun in my sketchbook. It is supposed to be me when I was little, but as I did it from a photograph without a grid, it is what it is. I was just happier than happy to be drawing on paper again!

Last is just a photo of my work space from this weekend working on my still life for my intro to ceramics class.

Friday, October 21, 2011

Moving On

I just finished up my third black 8.5 by 11 inch sketchbooks. It's a funny thing. I have two pages that need to be finished up, but something in me is already to move on to the next one (that may be in part because my next one was started for a specific class last spring and i have already begun sketching in it... oopsie daisy)

I finished moving all my fall ceramics notes into a composition book, which is logical so I can keep all my ceramics notes and glaze shtuff together in one place.

This would probably signify my move to using composition books and my black sketchbooks. what can I say, I like uniformity and matching!

Art school is overwhelming sometimes, but it is Friday so the previous six days are weighing on my back, funny how that works. Just gotta keep going.

Monday, October 17, 2011

More New Work

I put up my newest self-portrait painting on my website. I hope to start a new painting on canvas soon!

Below are pictures of my latest finished creation. It's a vase for fun with imagery of my past and future. It is hawaiian red clay with a white engobe. It was then fired once (to what cone I do not know) and then i painted it with acrylic paint.

Sunday, October 2, 2011

Guarded

I just finished building my first large clay piece ever, it is about 33 inches tall. It excites me that I built something so large and weird. I am looking forward to adding color and firing it. The craft of the piece doesn't please me perfectly, but it also works for the concept behind the piece, so I am letting it go for this piece, especially since I am just jumping into ceramics now.

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

New Website

for a more professional look, as well as better navigation through my work, i have moved my website to:

www.luciadill.com

i plan to still use this blog for more specific and casual updates. time will tell how this blog will be utilized.

Monday, September 26, 2011

Postcard Project II

In an older post (see below), I described and posted pictures of my original Postcard Project (also referred to as my Soul Project or Soul Postcards). I am currently churning out some new ones, it is a long process especially now that school has started. I have four done and am looking forward to making new ones in the new few weeks to months. I am trying to decide how many I will send out in this installment. The quotes I am using this time overlap with a few of the old quotes, but also reflect some new quotes I have found in the past year or so. Here's a preview of one of them:

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Fall 2011 at California College of the Arts

This post has been edited because it had no real content and no pictures. Since I can't delete old posts (thanks google!) enjoy this image of one of my very early chair paintings.

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Summer 2011

I am in the midst of trying to start a new wave of postcards (see the post about the postcard project below.) For now, here is one of the sketchbook pieces I did this summer.