Professional Seminar - Creative Practice - 2

This week I was so excited and thankful to have found 2 blocks from the home we are renting in Florida, Kricket’s Old Village Pottery Open Studio! I have been concentrating on my self-care and to find an open pottery studio that I can walk to each day and sit down at the pottery wheel to throw and sculpt my angels is just what I have needed. (see photo) So I joined the pottery studio this past week and began to create my “Angel of Serenity”. I decided since I now have access to a pottery wheel to first create the angel in 3-dimension instead of on a tile as originally planned. I still plan to make the angel on a healing tile by creating it in 3-dimension and cutting the angel in half for the tile, however for right now I am really enjoying working in 3-dimension again. During my practicum, making healing tiles I had been only working in 2-dimension. So first I worked out the construction of the angel in a drawing and realized I would need to divide up my lump of clay into 3 sections (see photo). I have place placed photos in the order the creation of the angel took place. The angel is just in its beginning stages because when throwing the forms and then sculpting, the form has to firm up some before I can begin to really sculpt the wings and parts so it won’t collapse. I will continue to post photos as I continue to sculpt the angel.

Professional Seminar - Creative Practice - Week 1

The Angel of Serenity Ceramic Tile Art Installation. For my creative practice blogs I plan to sculpt the healing angels I was inspired to draw, during my practicum. Reflecting on two scriptures that say: The Son of righteous will rise with healing in his wings and the leaves are for the healing of the nations, I am reminded of the idea that healing angels may have leaves instead of feathers on their wings. Also how feathers and leaves are very similar to each other and are both coverings. I want to make clay relief tile art installations. The first relief I will make is The Angel of Serenity, which was inspired from the peace released from the ocean. I desire for that same measure of peace to be released to a person when they view the ceramic angel relief. Often I meditate on the ocean and how the waves cap into glistening angels. I decided to draw the angel with oil pastels to get an idea of the colors, textures and how to break up the angel into six tiles. I chose to use calming peaceful colors; blues and greens. The 2-dimentional pastel drawing was not able to capture the actual 3-dimension relief that the clay tiles will have but has helped me to work out some of the details needed to begin sculpting the angel.