Showing posts with label small sculpture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label small sculpture. Show all posts

Thursday, October 1, 2009

East Bay Express: I'm on the cover. Awesome.

So, I've gotten a few emails in the last couple of days about reviews for "This Long Road." There are a couple of nice blog reviews as well as an online article that just came out in the East Bay Express. Anyhow today I just found out they used my 'Asbestos Suit' piece on the cover of the actual issue of the East Bay Express. Crazy. Anyhow you should pick up a copy if you can. Here is a picture of the cover:

Ben Belknap ceramic sculpture

All you have to do is remove this sticker for "Star Wars in Concert":
Ben Belknap ceramic sculpture

And this is the picture revealed:
Ben Belknap ceramic sculpture

If you're not in the bay area you can read the review here.

Thursday, August 27, 2009

More Show in Progress

So these are some sculptures I'm in the process of glazing tonight. They have a base coat of underglaze on their skin that I fired on in the bisque firing. Now I have rubbed black underglaze into the crevices to bring out the detail and I am about to add shadows and highlights. Next I will glaze their eyes, hair and finally clothing.
Ben Belknap Ceramic Sculpture
This is a sculpture I got out of the kiln a couple of days ago using the same process as above(different grey-green underglaze for the skin color.)
Ben Belknap Ceramic Sculpture
Next is the finished flame wall pedestal. Turned out rather nice though I broke one of the flame points off of the upper left hand side. I'll have to glue unfortunately.
Ben Belknap Ceramic Sculpture

Finally a little test piece I made with an old 1961 slip casting mold of a geisha that I used as a press mold.
Ben Belknap Ceramic Sculpture