Erin Furminsky Layered Surfaces

Erin Furminsky Layered Surfaces
Layered Surfaces Furminsky

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Congratulations Pottery Students!

Drawing
Honorable Mention: “My Sister Joi” Cortney Ragin - Legacy
3rd Place: “Wolf” Alyce Mendoza - Thornton
2nd Place: “Heart & Soul” Mark Makarov-Junev - Thornton
1st Place: “Distorted Grid” Aaron Lamb - Thornton


Painting
HM: “Self Portrait” Emily Hyatt - Legacy
3rd Place: “Kiss” Zak Spatafore - Mountain Range
2nd Place: “Gibb” Emily Hyatt - Legacy
1st Place: “Legend” Markarius Williams - Thornton


Printmaking
HM: “The Star” Mai Vue – Mountain Range
3rd Place: “Don Quixote” Roman Martinez - Mountain Range
2nd Place: “Eskimo Story” Britta Schmitt - Thornton
1st Place: “War” Evan Daiss – Vantage Point


Traditional Photo
HM: untitled Brandon Mah - Thornton
3rd Place: “A Simpler Time” Ronald Bettridge - Northglenn
2nd Place: “Lost” Mackenzie Cranford – Mountain Range
1st Place: “Greetings Alice” Sam Scharrer - Legacy


Alternative Photo
HM: untitled Michael Painter - Northglenn
3rd Place: “Before and After” Ryan Roberts - Legacy
2nd Place: “Thoughts” Richard Arellano - Legacy
1st Place: “Reflection” Brooke Vargas - Horizon


Digital Art
HM: “Fire + Ice” Bobby Hill – Vantage Point
3rd Place: “The End is Near” Rick Mayer - Vantage Point
2nd Place: “Death From Above” Evan Daiss - Vantage Point
1st Place: “Black Book Remix” Nate Dyer - Vantage Point


Communications Design
HM: “Radeke Zoo” Antonette Jacobson - Bollman
3rd Place: “Climbing Trees with Levi” Levi Arthur – Vantage Point
2nd Place: “Vicious” Teaka Fernandez - Bollman
1st Place: “Tatos Order Form” Connor Pascale - Bollman


Hand Built Clay
HM: Place: “Peach Tree” Amelia Engleman - Horizon
3rd Place: “Ancient Chimney” Carolyn Pitcher – Mountain Range
2nd Place: “Strawberry Fields Forever” Sara LeMasters - Legacy
1st Place: “High Heel” Tara Sain - Horizon


Wheel Thrown Clay
HM: Place: “Shino Platter” Jordan Pieper - Thornton
3rd Place: “Saggar Bottle Set”Flor Widmar - Thornton
2nd Place: “Communion” Kevin Sakaguchi - Thornton
1st Place: “Crystalline Bottle Set” Dominique Gaudyn - Thornton


2D Mixed Media
HM: “ Self Portrait” Daniel Reed-Gonzalez - Thornton
*3rd Place: “Assimilation” Nhuong-Sao Ton - Thornton *3rd and 2nd
*2nd Place: “Mixed Media Composition” Sao Ton Nhongorder
1st Place: “Beaded Relationship” Tamara Novikova – Thornton

3D Mixed Media
HM: “Growth” Macarena Salazar - Thornton
3rd Place: “I’M O.K.” Karrington Richardson - Thornton
2nd Place: “Contemporary Bindings” Angel Lam - Thornton
1st Place: “Stage Show” Cori Terahari / Dominique Gaudyn – Thornton


Sculpture
HM: “Memory Box” Crystal Ho - Thornton
3rd Place: “Techno Ostrich” Carrissa Fincher - Thornton
2nd Place: “Two Tone Party Extravaganza” Jarrett Vigil – Vantage Point
1st Place: “Pods” Pablo Estrada – Thornton


Jewelry
HM: “Emotion Necklace” Rachel Thomas - Legacy
3rd Place: “Brass & Copper Fabrication” Jared Mielkus – Mountain Range
2nd Place: “Scarab” Dereck Guerrero - Northglenn
1st Place: “Wings to Fly” Cassandra Monroe – Thornton

High School Board of Education Purchase Award
Chris Trimble – “Cash Register Building” Hand Built Clay - Horizon

Monday, April 27, 2009

Sculpture Video From Gallery In Scottsdale

Check out this video. It has images of many up and coming sculpture people in America. I bet you know who some of the artists are already. (Cynthia Consentino, ???, Can you guess who any of the other artists are? Let's talk about this in class.
Does looking at this clip give you any ideas? (Body position, surface finishing, size???)

Sunday, April 26, 2009

ADVANCED POTTERY

TURN IN YOUR I-BOOKS WITH YOUR BLOGS SECURELY FASTENED INSIDE OF THEM TO MR. WYATT ON MONDAY. MAKE SURE YOU DON'T FORGET, THIS WILL AFFECT YOUR GRADE!
I WILL BE BACK ON TUESDAY, LET'S MAKE A LOT OF ART BEFORE THE YEAR IS OVER1


LISA

Saturday, April 25, 2009

BLOGS/I-BOOKS ARE DUE!

Please refer to previous assignment (Blogs)
Make sure all required information is included on your blog (Images, influences, work in progress, plan for the future, etc....)
Print out blog and put it in your I-Book.
Add notes/sketched/ideas in the margin
This was really due last week! Turn it in now!!!!!!


Lisa

Sunday, April 19, 2009

Wheel Throwers

Tom Coleman Platter
Nested Bowls

Chris Gustin Bowl


Platter with slip



Bowl with decals




- (Alleghany Meadows photo below)-
STUDENTS/TASKS/BLOG/I-BOOK

-Photograph all work in progress
-Put anything you have to be bisqued in the kiln room.
-Glaze as soon as possible. I would like to fire the gas kiln (ASAP!)

If you are working on-

-Bottles: Set of 3 (All must be trimmed)
-One piece enclosed forms with lids
Set of three that look related (Lid must fit!)
-Bowls: Set of six that stack and match exactly. Same size foot rings, height.
-Plates: Set of 6 Must stack. Same size footring. Same glaze. Make sure all plates get put --in the same firing. ( Why do you think that is important?) If you don't know, come talk with me-
Platters- 6 Do not need to match. Must be at least 8 pounds. Throw on plaster bats so they release easily. Rotate when drying (up and down) so they dry evenly.











Sculpture People/Advanced Pottery

Student in my class at Penland. (Cristina Cordova workshop)
Cristina Cordova working on a head. Adding white clay to red, like we are doing in class.

Close up. Remember that loading a stiff brush with white clay and painting in the direction of the muscles will make the face look more realistic.
Remember to have a mirror, photographs, and an anatomical image with muscle details in front of you while you are working.


Pay attention to details. Look at the line of the lips. They are not straight. Why not? Because of the muscles under the skin.



Sculpture People-

Completed by Wednesday!
At the absolute latest!!!!


-one eye
-two eyes
-nose
-mouth
-ear


After completing the above try various surface finishing techniques on your face tiles
-cold finishing
-underglazes
-sgraffito
-raku
-sandblast back glaze/watercolor/ acrylic oil


Remember, influences (artists) must be included in blog and I-Book
Sketches/Photograph of facial expressions
Plan! Plan! Plan!
Will you use real hair? Is technical more important than concept? Why? What is the focus/idea?

Torsos must have arms/ It's always a good idea to practice small and then switch to a larger sculpture!

Look at the sculpture images I have included on the website! Import images into your blog.
I now have an I-Flip camera, so if you would like to include video clips of work in progress that is now possible! Yippee! ( I think this is quite exciting!)

Look at the following websites:

http://www.ferringallery.com/
http://www.cristinacordova.com/
http://www.tiptoland.com/
http://www.annnathangallery.com/pages/Sculpture.htm

Creating a Blog/ Advanced Pottery

All students should have set up their blog by April 20th

Included on the blog-

A brief description of what you are trying to achieve. What you have created, and what you plan on creating.

-Images of work that will inform and inspire your work

-Images of work in progress

-Plan for work in progress

-Images of artists work that inspires you, and what it is that you like about their work. Is it the surface, form, size, etc????

-You should print out your blog and put it in your investigation notebook (your I-book)

-I will collect all of this information on Wednesday

-Do not forget to send my your blog address so that I can link it to the pottery website.
Lisa.Rogers@adams12.org