alright...

so its been a almost a week since i updated about how my life is going. We had a memorial service for my teacher who passed away and it was really sad but at the same time gave everyone closure and it was nice to see everyone this summer even though it was a sad occasion. He is in a better place and at least it was quick for him instead of years and years of pain. He always said he was going to die young. Rest in Peace sir.

as for other things in my life i have been saving my monies in this piggie bank i traded an artist for...

Im not sure what for exactly yet but i know i will think of something once its full...





and i have decided to lose weight the natural way... no more atkins or south beach or specials ways of dieting.. just watching what i eat and excercising more often. I have been riding my bike everywhere and have managed to keep off ten pounds so that is something i want to keep posting about here to keep me motivated.

as for artists i have seen many artists this past week because there was a Bachelors in arts show at the art gallery at school and it is nice to see people out of just the ceramic media.

One artist i found online who does decalling who i think is amazing is Brian Boldon. I discussed him in my ceramics class as someone i look up to and though now i cannot fully persue something like this i definately want to in the future... here is just a glimpse of a few images that caught my eye...

 "Third person sky"












"While the body seems absent"




I just find all the work he does to be amazing....the decaling and the use of glass ceramic metal-working everything is so thought out and the images he gets are so detailed. REALLY COOL!

 anyways... those are my images for today and probably this week unless i have a chance to chill out and get back to this blog... im not used to reporting so much but i find that when i do i get more listeners and i like to share the work i like as well as the work that i will be making! so hopefully the next blog will have my work :)

Yesterday was a sad day... :(

Yesterday I found out that one of our art professors died. He had colon cancer and he had just found out a few months ago. It was all of the sudden and very shocking for a lot of us here at central michigan. He was a teacher that everyone loved. He was fair and honest when it came to critiquing artwork and I had the pleasure of having him critique my BFA work in the fall. He will be missed by all here. Its just so sad and shocking how fast life can be taken away and how undetected cancer can go for so long. He is in a better place though. And he left behind a legacy with his students to carry on.

He will be missed. Rest in Peace Lon Ferguson.

Lons Artwork.

Swiss cheese anyone?

Just some shinfo...

Swiss cheeses holes  are produced by a bacteria that is controlled by the person producing the cheese. They can control the size by chaning the acidity, curing time of the cheese and the temperature... Recently the USDS has set regulations in the size of the holes in swiss cheese which has pissed a few cheese makers off. Luckily its only in the US.

one more thing....

I forgot!!
My boyfriend is taking this class on comics and I have been reading this one called black hole...
its super interesting! plus I like zombies and monster stuff so this makes me really happy :)

Today is a better day!

I may be peeling from tubing sunburns but the burns are gone...
I have just recently got the newest ceramics monthly and found some new amazing artists!!
 Kristen Morgan (who i have not found a website for) makes these sculptures that she does not fire in a kiln so that they eventually decay and deteriorate. They are really interesting... at least the ones i have seen....

These are just two images that are featured in ceramics monthly and I think that the concept is interesting and it is something i have thought about before...













Hopefully soon I will be able to put up more pictures of my own work...unfortunately summer puts a strain on my picture taking.

Hope you enjoyed my artist of the day... my horoscope calls for a bad day but I am determined to turn that around.

My Favorite things

So everyone has their down days... im going to show some of my favorite things since today is one!

Merideth Host

She does some work that is very subtle and beautiful and i totally respect that and would like to see it come out more with my work. Its also very clean cut and pristine.









Other work of hers has a dark twist to it and this is where I LOVE LOVE LOVE her work. She uses these colors that she refers to as sweet candy colors or something and then pairs them up with something a little darking and in this picture as you can see its teeth...


You can click the name to view her website i just think she is fantastic. I almost bought one of her cups at the Pewebic Center in detroit but probably would have put myself into debt.


Kristen Kieffer is another person that makes amazing work with porcelain!

From her cups to her bowls to her pitchers and wall pieces all of her stuff has this wonderfully eccentric detail to them which makes them all so beautiful and pleasing to look at



Shes one of the artists I need to add to my collection asap.



She works with soda fire as well which is what makes it perfect for me. Plus she knows one of my professors at Central. I have not met her yet but i think her work is wonderful.








These bowls are my favorite by far.






Brenda Lichman is an amazing soda fire ceramicist. She is one of the people I strive to make work like.

They are all so beautiful! The shapes. The colors. The flashing everything its just so pretty. I actually own one of her cups and it is so light as well. I saw almost all of these things at NCECA and if I could I would have taken everything home!


I am a Brenda Lichman fan for sure!!























these are just a few of my favorite ceramics things but now im going to veer off in a different direction...

Bitter Films Don Hertzfeldt
Crazy dude that takes simple animation to an extreme!

 I also like to dabble in a few 2-d things myself... a week and a half ago I made to paintings for our apt...

 Mr Bill Murray at his finest I also did Christopher walken but I will put that up another time...


well hope you enjoyed my rantings about my favorite things!

quote for the day....

"Above all else, it is about leaving a mark that I existed: I was here. I was hungry. I was defeated. I was happy. I was sad. I was in love. I was afraid. I was hopeful. I had an idea and I had a good purpose and that's why I made works of art. " Felix Gonzalez-Torres


amazing artist... so passionate...