Big thanks to Alpha Fired Arts (or as it’s known around here, Alpha Ceramics Studios) for their help in finding some new stuff yesterday. If you ever need to find some ceramic or art supplies and you’re in the greater Sacramento area, stop on by and these guys will take care of you—Jim purchased [...]
The Bronze Foundry
I applied for a job at a bronze foundry! There’s a disturbing chance I might not make it. First of all, I’m inexperienced at working with the medium, I only sculpted two pieces out of bronze back in high school.
Man I was lucky to be able to cast bronze back then. The first piece I [...]
Clay Shinnanigans
I had a bit of a run- in with some clay today. Because it was in between quarters, I either have to pair up with someone and make some clay with the machine, or pick up the scraps left over from last quarter. Fortunately, there was a big 200 lb scrap of clay in the [...]
The Solar Anglometer
To build sculptures that cast special shadows, I needed a way to measure the angle of the sun rays hitting the sculptures. I have designed a device called a “Solar Anglometer” solar pertaining to the sun, and anglo + meter meaning measurer of angles.
Here is a Photoshop illustration of how it works.
It works off of [...]
New Direction!
Well finals are finally over. Now I have time to blog again. Sorry about the lack of blogging, but I’ve been really busy over the past few weeks.
A friend of mine in one of my art classes, Kerry, suggested I try taking the ideas behind a current series of prints that I made and apply [...]
Stuff
New stuff is coming soon. I promise.
—Matthew
Deadlines Approach
I haven’t had alot of time to blog, and I will have to warn all of you guys that my blogging isn’t very consistant… I am a busy college student. Anyway, sorry about that in advance.
My deadline approaches for all wet clay projects. I’ll blog about how the basic cycle of clay works next, but [...]
Derivatives of Inspiration
Thursday evening (really, Friday morning), I said Jim was too tired to blog and that he’d write Friday evening. Well, we see how well that worked…
Actually, Jim was using my computer doing some work in Photoshop at my townhouse. The pictures I teased in my last post were being edited and transformed into [...]
