This is the first step in what I am calling a “Matisse-Inspired Piece”. Different than what I initially pictured but a nice colorful beginning!
I see elements to refine so logically a new piece emerged & with it different lines, colors, shapes… a whole new flow. (will post next piece soon) Admittedly it can be challenging to create a shape, paint it and have to wait until it’s fired to see the result. An exercise in patience! :)
Thoughts are tumbling over future pieces & I am having lots of fun in the process!
a sketch if you will…
Last week I had two more nights of beautiful pottery dreams! The first morning I woke up with these awesome images of large Matisse inspired luminaries! A vibrant mixture of his color & human form. The end piece at which my brain and hands arrive may have minimal visual relation, but it’s delightful how inspiration is always around!
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Icarus. 1947.
http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/90004094
The Circus. 1947.
http://henrimatisseartgallery.blogspot.com/
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My Grandmother, part of a 2CD compilation SWING GIRLS.
http://www.teichiku.co.jp/catalog/teichiku/2011/ch37281.html
I love to sing… just not too loud! My “Mom” (maternal grandmother) used to sing me to sleep, one of my fondest memories. I didn’t hear my Grandma Nancy (paternal grandmother) sing until I listened to a recording my father had. Now she’s on this cd compilation Swing Girls 1935-1940 and I am tickled pink! My son is my only audience but it’s the cutest little audience I could ever have!
It’s awesome to know that even if you’re not around in your physical body your energy from the past still brings positive energy to the present, whether it’s on a new CD or in memory! Just keep singing! :)
beautiful voices bring joy to the world
78 from a way long time ago :)
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(the pictures I have of this space are on film & I will have to dig for them at a later date! in the meantime his pic. & btw he makes custom wood boards!)
From the time I was a little girl running around the beach he has been one of the loves of my life! Wow - I could fill the page with every imaginable positive terminology here… truly a one-of-kind individual. He is an artisan craftsman who can take the smallest space & make it magical. He had a small 10x10… 12x12? building that he turned into a livable space, with a sail-boat style bathroom complete with a porthole window & mosaic sink. For lunch you could fold down a wooden dining table & for siesta hop in the hammock bed. A slate waterfall graced the entrance. The yard was a koi pond retreat with a bridge & an outside shower. Do you know just how much I LOVE outside showers?
…and bamboo tucked everything in.
…so yesterday I attempted to be a photographer, director & subject all at once! heehee, that was funny! If anyone saw me from a distance they would probably think I was crazy! Thank goodness for shot delay, tripods & continual shot mode! :)
Kelly, my dearest, bestest photographer friend, you need to move to Asheboro!
As the year winds down I find myself working on specific projects tailored to individual orders. People have so many great ideas and to be able to make just a few of these come to life on clay is wonderful! Thank you to everyone for supporting your favorite potters, artists & friends! Thank you for new ideas! Have a fantastic rest of the year!
peace, love & butter beans,
dawn
I will be demonstrating my pottery carving technique at the Asheboro Public Library
August 6th, 2011 from 10am until 12noon
a raw clay form is an open canvas for the potter to decorate, embellish, distress in the fashion that most suits them. i have been carving designs into pottery since i first began pottery as a career. i have had amazing teachers, critics and admirers and i appreciate everyone along the way. thank you! - dawn tagawa
please come out & join me at the library!
display behind circulation desk at Randolph County Library.
july thru august