i am slacking on the blog, here are some new paintings, one is i am still working on.. i am torn between the two worlds, during the dat i work on ceramics, which i am in a bit of a rut, need to make some new molds, and start some large wheel worked pieces. the paintings arejusyt coming out, one every two or three days., only had a couple on view, and they sold, which is a good sign. i really like working in the oils, i am learning something new each painting. i will try and keep this blog flowing with pics,...now it is raining, and i am brewing some strong yerba. ready to paint. add music and i am off into another world for a couple of hours...i love my job.
.yes, life is awesome right now, so many new events manifesting and my art life is the fullest ever. i will let the pictures do the talking,....hope you are well, and living everyday full. it is why we are here, to experience and learn. which is what i am doing with this damn plaster. God has placed me on earth to learn the limitations of my using flashing for the mold container...the almighty has spoken in the abstract sending a powerful sign three times, the plaster did run. the vision appeared after the third, a strong dream came to me, in which i went to the hardware store, and build the wine goblet frame out of wood and with clamps. clamps my son!, stop fucking around here....these are the words that echoed in my mind... paintings are moving along,these two are alomost there... i am waiting for the raw frames, to finish, and i will be showing and painting this friday at the art crawl..also,i am sufficiently addicted to face-book. as i write i am curled up in the corner of the bathroom shaking,..have not checked my homepage in over ten hours..the withdrawals are bad man,.... it happens people. i have been posting most of my work life and cerebral wanderings on there. hey, join the good fight and be my friend. use my name or jeffmartinceramics@mac.com for the search. you really get a day to day experience, sometimes hour to hour depending on how bad i am distracted from real life.
been doing alot of painting as of late...stepped into oils and am happily slipping into apigment induced coma..the lady at the art store suggested that i stop painting with my finger, or risk "rotting my brain out"....right on track with that. the slip work is moving ahead too, forur new forms designed, a large platter, two mugs, and a tall vase...my daughter is graduating from pre-school today...should be exciting!
i am slacking on my blog, so much work that my days are consumed with potting and painting..i am working in both mediums at a fairly thick pace.. got shows, and galleries to fill. plus my ass is domesticated don't ya know, gardening, mowing ,planting, building, staining sanding, folding clothes and cooking for mis and mi babygirl. ..this is good, i just have no time really to show yall whats happening. ..off to the hardware store for stains and dispaly hardware, then gym and back to unload and glaze a kiln, followed by some more painting...i will sleep when i'm dead.
damn good busy right now, pot during the day paint at night....will post more later, need to fill a kiln. here is a painting finished at my last show...have a good day yo.
taking a quick break in working here, been filling up the table with pots pretty steady for the last five hours, will have a full kiln load by tomm. morning. the first glaze kiln will be ready to unload by then, and it is round two before my show this week. on the employee tip, i had let him go, he was a no call no show teo days in a row. it is better, he was looking for something full-time anyways. so now i have an artist who comes up from greensboro on the weekends to work as assistant manager of the farmer;s market, to help me. i will train her in the slipcasting method the weekend after next and she will work six hrs a weekend. this works out better, since art is her dedication, while the other guy just needed work. she also has some clay experience. to top it off we are trying to get a two person show at a gallery in greensboro, so this will be good for us to co-ordinate our work. she is a painter, and i look forward to working with her. i told yall, that once i opened the employee door, that was it. and i mean it, i have set up my work to incorporate an assistant., so that i can raise my income ceiling. raise the roof yo. here is a clip of me and some friends at an auction. it is the real deal. i ain't telling you where it is at. i want to do a documentary on this family, they are off the hook. in this clip, towards the end of the sale, everything gets real cheap..like two dollars cheap..my artist friend, chrissie is bidding on a poem magnet(they think it is a picture frame), and little did she know she bought the whole table!. she does awesome mixed media paper clay sculpture with found objects, which she gets from here..she was the one who turned me on to the auction, she has been going for over twenty years...
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