Brenda Beeley on tue 15 apr 03
My beloved 21 year old paid part-time studio assistant is also going to do
a free internship this summer with me to fulfill his art school
requirements before graduation. Yippee!!
Instead of having him do grunt work, I decided to set up a 12 Week Learning
Project for him. It will incorporate his major in fine arts and graphic
design and how they relate to ceramics. Also, I will have him research
ceramic techniques that we are both interested in learning and we will both
try them out together. I'm also thinking of having him teach a technique
to my local guild. I've listed some of the ideas for projects that have
popped into my head.
I'm interested in learning what other artists think of this program. If
they have done something similar? And also other ideas.
12 Week Ceramic Internship
1. Sculpture
coil building a figure
bas relief
slumping glass in a bisqueware torso or face
2. Architecture
tiles, murals
creating sacred spaces
altars
arches, domes
ceramic houses
3. Painting on Ceramics
using oxides, underglazes, slips
majolica on terra cotta - Spainish and Italian influence
Painters (dead and alive)who also dabbled in ceramics - Picasso,
Miro, Sergei
Isupov
print-making techniques
4. Monoprinting
5. Decals on porcelain
ink jet print transfers
color printer transfers
collages
plates
6. Graphics Arts and Ceramics
creating designs on the computer to transfer to ceramics
creating designs for potters
7. Marketing - The Real World
creating an inexpensive, sellable ceramic item
8. Glazes
Sanblasting
9. Surface Design
carving
sgraffito
slips, slip trailing
airbrushing
10. Collaborative works - designing and executing a piece together
what goes into working with other
the creative process when two people work together
11. Teaching a newly learned technique to my local clay guild
12. Attending ClaySpace workshops and then creating a piece with skills
learned there.
13. Keeping an Internship Journal
Happy Full Moon Rising,
Brenda
Regarding the Creativity Discussion: I find my most creative times are
between the new moon and full moon.....and no longer hit myself over the
head for being boring and dimwitted at other times.
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ClaySpace on Puget Sound
Brenda Beeley
P.O. Box 1339
Suquamish, WA 98392-1339
(360) 598-3688
email: mtimes@telebyte.net
http://www.clayspaceonpugetsound.com
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