Glazing with Yeasayer

Sunday night I went to see Yeasayer at La Zona Rosa. I've been listening to them a lot since I saw them at a music festival in town last year. The show was fantastic and it's been a constant channel on Pandora Radio for me. Check out the song below and then listen to it some more.

photo from the Austinist.

Glazetime

I'm finishing up my glazing today.

I'll be firing Ryan's soda-kiln tomorrow so most of the work is just getting a liner glaze for this round. Some of the work will have some line decorations on it...maybe....the rest will get decals applied after the firing.

Art City Ad

I haven't been excited for a Craft Show in a long time I'm looking forward to this one. Maybe it's all the great food I'll get to eat while downtown.

Art City Austin from Lucky Rabbit Films on Vimeo.

Fluted

I've been playing around with some simple forms for this firing. As I said earlier, I'll be firing them in my friend Ryan's soda kiln which will give the bare porcelain a nice sheen and a nice medium for the decal application.

I fired a bisque yesterday and have another bisque-load drying. I'll make another bunch Monday & Tuesday of next week, then the making is done and it's glazing and firing time. Art City Austin is going to sneak up quick and since I need some time for applying & firing the decals I actually need to be ready ahead of time....yeah right.

New AOTP Website!

I finally got the AOTP Website up and running. Please check it out here and let me know what you think. I have a few more pages to build but we were ready to get something new up there.

I used Wordpress to build it and even though I'm still figuring out some of it's quirks, I like it and am thinking of switching this blog and my site over to WP.

Other than the website build, I've been busy getting ready for Art City Austin. I'll be firing Ryan's kiln in about a week and a half. I'm pretty excited about my new work. It's all porcelain, lots of fluting, some squaring and in the end it will have lots of decals.

I wish I was at NCECA...never thought I'd say that again but for some reason it seems full of energy this year. Maybe it's because of Michael Connelly's pre-conference got things rolling.

I Won!

Who said that Twitter is a waste of time?

Well, while I was wasting time on said website I noticed that DO512.com had some free tickets to Gilberto Gil's show over at UT. I was the 2nd person to reply so I won I pair of tickets. In addition to this lucky moment of the day, we were also able to find a babysitter for the evening so Evangelina got to see a pretty great show.

We parked on Campus and I had no clue where the Hogg Auditorium was. Luckily, there was a group of not college age looking folks leaving the parking garage at the same time. I decided to follow the guy in his mid-60's wearing a blazer, a mock turtleneck and a pair of vans. It was definitely my lucky day. Will-Call had our tickets and we enjoyed our great seats and our show.

Art City Austin

We're back from an amazing trip to El Salvador. We went all over the country and had a blast doing so. We went from city to beach, from city to lake, from city to beach and back. The kids had a blast and this will probably be the first trip to El Salvador that they truly remember. Javi and Ale had been before but it had been almost 3 years so their memories were hazy. With all the fun they had this trip, it should be crystal clear for a long time.

Now that we're back it's time to focus on getting ready for Art City Austin. I don't know much about the show other than it's right here in town, put on by a wonderful local organization that works really hard to promote Art in Austin and that it's going to be in a wonderful location. The show stretches along the Lake on Cesar Chavez from Colorado Street to Lamar. I've only done one other outdoor show before so I'm hoping for good weather. I'll let you all know my exact location when I find out.

I'm also hoping that my good friends Abigail and Steven win the TOGS Competition so I can use their exhibition space rather than set up under a sorry EZ-UP Tent.