I've still been getting down with anatomy lately. I've moved away from focusing on whole faces and instead have been working on incorporating small features of the face within functional works. Hopefully by this friday I'll be able to bring my glazed hand vase and glazed mushmouth vase. The hands are projects that I've been working on for Life Drawing, and while I am satisfied with the palm with the eye I feel as though the mouth could definitely use some improvement as I think I overworked that one. At one point I was satisfied with the result..but then things got to heavy. Go figure.
I also got a whole shipment of underglazes so I'm soooper stoked to start pumping out some sgraffito or maybe even mishima!! With these I might try and incorporate some of the same styles I've been working on, which are loosely based with traditional style tattoo art into the sgraffito. I also got the underglazes just so that I could potentially give my sculpts a more realistic look or a specific set, not so much a shiny semi monochromatic glaze. I would have to say that some of my major artistic influences right now would have to be traditional japanese and american tattoo flash and art as well as an interest in the human form and body.

These babies gonna get scratched

 Coffee flavored kisses

Frankenglug 

 Mushmouth and Eye Spores

Creepspirations
 Since I feel that I've been rather fixated on anatomy and its possible manipulations and interactions with inanimate forms, here's some super rad work!!

I still find that I'm rather enjoying working with the form. As I grow more confident with my abilities to actually apply forms to the surface, I feel that it's growing time for me to move away from the basics.

 I really loved how the nose on this one came out. This piece was really just a study of the face, trying to get it to look more realistic. Not to crazy about the eyes and besides the lips being off center they were an over all success as well.

Sculpted koi. Came out kind of hoaky, not exactly what I was looking for, but I feel that if i tried it again I would know what not to do. I mainly liked the scales and the water texture.

My hand as part of a study for life drawing. Don't know whether it's creepy or funky!! Either way I love it!!

Worked on some carving, I really liked how this one came out, there's another koi on the back but it didnt come out as well and I only had a picture of this one. This would have been great as a blue to green transition with orange sgraffito, but alas I didn't have any underglazes. Doesn't really mean much besides I'd always thought koi were elegant and were something I wanted to try out! 

Lecture Blog:

The first lecture that I will be analyzing is that of James McBain, which was over why people seemed to lie. He covered several areas, the main facet that interested me, was the ' saving face' aspect, concluding that people would lie simply to not look like they were wrong or in the wrong. He complimented with a study that gave people a choice of several bars to choose which one was the longest, the choice was obvious, but study placed impersonators to choose an obviously wrong answer, and more often than not, the true subject often changed their answer to match that of the rest of the group, and even when shown the correct answer, had a difficult time admitting that they were in fact wrong. I find this study incredibly, entertaining, you could say, as I feel like I observe these sort of actions throughout many scenarios in my life, especially waiting tables, I have numerous stories, that I would be more than happy to enlighten people with the stupidity and stubbornness of others, but alas, I don't want to type a 10,000 word entry, and I highly doubt you'd want to read it, so I'll do us both the favor.

The second lecture that I attended was Kate Nelson's, the current ceramic exhibitor. Unfortunately, I was only able to stay a brief 15 minutes before I had to go serve the masses spaghetti. Portico began the lecture with an extensive relay of Nelson's impressive resume and credentials, which included the China Summer's Ceramics Program as well as the Texas Women's University for her MFA. Besides seeming slightly nervous, I found Nelson's lecture rather intriguing, most of all her theories and passions of Truisms as well as her figures and expressionist shapes dealing with songs. I enjoyed the concept of converting a static, basic, seemingly functional object into something with an obvious literate purpose. At the point in which I had to leave, she was just reaching her discussion about her transition to funk art and kitschy figurines. My interest in these might have been peaked as we had just covered the emergence of pop and California funk in Contemporary Art, and I enjoyed the often raw and disturbing quality as well as overt message that many of the works contained. Unfortunately, this was the time in which I needed to leave and I was unable to hang around to hear about her dramatic change from funk art to the elegant porcelain figures that she is currently exhibiting, although I was around to hear that Henry Moore, the creator of the 'reclining figures', using a simplistic, flowing, connected form, was a major influence upon her works, and once stated, the influence is rather obvious. I wish I would have been around to hear the connection between her titles and the way they corresponded between her thrown and then closed works in the gallery, as honestly in a first impression, although striking, they were all somewhat similar. This is not to say they that they weren't individually beautiful, elegant, or intriguing.