RE: Studio Visit: Rhythms of Daily Work
More fascinating process. And I'm with you on the concentration end of things, it's pretty much silence all the time during creativity. "Sshh Kitty, sshh". I think it comes from years of working in the quiet of the woods.
I do have a ? for you. It might be dumb, or answered already, but anyway....do you stamp a number on each piece, before you fire it? So you can keep track of where it goes? Or do you just memorize it, since you are SO familiar with it all from drawing to end result. Or is it a big jigsaw puzzle, till you get them on paper where they belong? Though a fun challenge, seems it would take WAY too much time to do it that way.
Just curious....seems like you end up with a LOT of pieces of tile that look very similar. And I think I know you can't put a piece of paper in the kiln, at 1900 and whatever degrees F.
Looks like it's coming along well. Can't wait to see the final photos one day soon. Cheers.
It's a very good question @ddschteinn! The short answer is that I don't number the pieces, but keep little sections together all the way through the process. The longer answer is - I cut a small area of tile and number this area. I mark the outlines of this section/area on the master drawing so I know all of parts in it as well as the outlines. That section once cut stays together with all its little pieces on the kiln shelf through the bisque firing and then when I glaze it, I look at the outlined area on the master drawing to make sure I know what each piece is - leaf or sky or whatever. It stays together through the glaze firing and at the end when it's time to assemble all of the pieces, either I am familiar enough with it, or I can again refer to the master drawing if I get confused. Does that make sense? I think you've just inspired a post heh heh ;-))
Thanks, that makes great sense. I can imagine without a very straightforward 'system', things could get a bit wonky. And the need to stay very well organized is very obvious. I better stay away from intense tile-art creation ( :
I think you also need a LOT of shelves...
I say, go for it, sounds like a great post idea. Glad I could tweak the idea curve a bit with my Curious D-isms.
Hahaha, yes a LOT of shelves indeed :-)
And I always enjoy your comments-conversations @ddschteinn, thank you for taking the time!