Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Mid Cycle Update....

Not much new news.... the firing is approaching rapidly. We've got a little under a month before our may firing (and my last firing at the Jones Pottery). I made three boards of birdhouse late last week. They are nice and easy to throw and really fun to decorate. Below are just a few of things I've been working on for Matt.... I've been a little obsessed with the slip trailing as of late but thats when I feel like real progress is made, when I just do one thing over and over and slowly it evolves. One theme leads into another and over the cycles things change and evolve into something that I feel is more my own. In the past few months its been much more of a back and forth between me and Matt where we both are looking at the others pots for new ideas.








6 comments:

Ron said...

Looking really great Alex. The slip trailing is awesome. Good luck working up to the firing .

Anonymous said...

Those are beautiful. I bet they will be even more stunning after they're fired. Were you always naturally good at freehand decorating?

When working for someone else, is the product totally their design; or do you come up with it together? Do you have pottery of your own design that you get to work on simultaneously?

I just recently starting throwing pottery and I'm curious about all aspects of the business side.

Alex Matisse said...

Ron... did I mention I would like to marry Neko Case.

Michele... Thanks for the compliments! Instead of answering in the form of a comment I'll just do a post on the subject tonight. Check back in a day. As far as the buisnss side goes im not so sure. I can speak to one way of doing it which is the way that Matt does it but there are so many other methods of getting your work out into the world....maybe more on that later.

Studio Mama said...

Alex,
Hi! I found your email in my spam folder, then poof! I pushed the wrong button and your email address was lost. I have a show opportunity to talk to you about... mail me!

heather

doug Fitch said...

Hey Alex, long time no blog, hope all's going well with you, cheers Doug

Wajar Aja said...

Thaanks for the post