Mid-week already! I wish there were more hours I could remain concious and functioning in a day!
I have two new personal projects underway. I am creating two press molds, two different forms, for two completely different purposses. The first of the molds will be incorporated into my first commisioned piece! I will be creating an original plate and cup set designed to represent a lake on which my client vacations. The second mold will be used to create a translucent porcelain lighting fixture - hopefully many - ahh the beauty of molds. I am handbuilding each of the objects and I will cast each with plaster. When dry and ready I will press in slabs no thicker than 1/4inch (thinner for the porcelain body) and get moving.
I am also working on Rhino [blogging while I break :)] to create three dimensional sketches of yet another project. The object I am drawing is too big to actually print for financial reasons, but that is not a worry because the object I wish to cast is readily available as a found object.
On friday I will be loading three personalized family crest platters into an 04 eletric glaze firing, and fire it off in 8 hours or so.
Tomorrow, acting as a teachers assistant, I will introduce the fourth project and aid in demonstrations for Ceramic Handbuilding. I may have to mix up some casting slip this weekend due to a lack of Extrusion Dials - but may not because our handy Technician made new ones! It is interesting how we were able to have a back up plan that would fit well with the assignment... ceramics can be flexible!
We start woodfiring this weekend!!!!!!!! I will provide you all with pictures so you can join in the romance. SUNY New Paltz has an Anagama Kiln, which was built by a few of our former students, and which we are very lucky to have! I will be working the 12am to 6am shifts all weekend.
Lots to come!
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As a ceramic artist for the past six years, my work has existed as an expression of a range of human emotions. Through my artwork I aim to communicate my personality and emotional outlook on my immediate world and the world at large. By indulging myself in the ceramic process I am able to establish my own creative outlet, while striving to create a similar experience for my viewers through the emotive ceramic sculptures created.
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- Kelly Ann O’Sullivan was born in New Rochelle, NY in January of 1987. Kelly Ann will have received her BFA in Ceramics from the State University of New York at New Paltz, in 2010. In her time at the university, Kelly Ann was an active member of the Student Association, and the Student Art Alliance. The therapeutic nature of art, being a major influence on her life and work, Kelly Ann founded a student organization known as the New Paltz Art Therapy Association. The Artist is known for her emotive ceramic sculptures, which address the artist’s understanding, and depiction of a range of human emotions.
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