creative beard

opening day

I finally got a hold of some images to share. It’s not much but they do represent that day to some degree. Yes that’s me in the beard.

Visitors have come up to me after taking the tour in the exhibition hall and declared that they are “struck” and “emotionally moved”. And I really don’t know what to say but “thanks”. I had no such intention. I only wanted to create something that people could enjoy without a degree in arts. Enjoy the way I enjoy having a beer. Working on the subject from a illustrators point of view the goal was to tell the story. Little did I know that these pieces of clay would carry such emotion. I have really enjoyed these last months immensely. If these last days shows that I actually can do this then the next logical step has to be to do this elsewhere. In a location where I’m a total stranger. A nobody. Nyköping is after all my home turf and surely that does influence the balance.

Any suggestions?

Yesterday was fantastic!

Visitors started poring in before we opened and the stream of family, friends and wonderful people never stopped. We tried to keep track but we lost could at 250+ I can’t remember that I ever talked this much in a day. I actually think I do have some muscle ache in my jaw 🙂

There are so many people I’d like to thank. But above all my family, my mother and Annica Edwall without them this would never have happened. I was so busy interacting with visitors that I forgot to take photos. I’ll have to ask for some from those who took so I can share with you.

I feel like a bird testing my wings. And you all came as the helping wind taking me away on an adventure for life.

I should also thank Joakim Kempff, Don Seegmiller, Philip Straub, Steven Stalberg and David Ehlert, Ryan Kingslien. And the on-line communities such as Conceptart, zbrushcentral, CGhub among others where crit, inspiration and knowledge flow freely to help and grow other artists.

Sculpts and prints

webinbjudning

Icing on top

Helmet with gold

While some sculptures are getting their final love, others still have some harsh treatment ahead of them.

Tomorrow I will do all of the burning that is left and start to take the pictures needed to tell the story.

Hope to see you all soon and I truly hope you all will experience something new.

Post process

Oden Final

So finally it was time to find out what they wanted to look like. When working in raku you only get that much say. The elements are really at work. So go with the flow.
I did loose the head on one Sigurd sculpt and the green glaze I had doesn’t appeal to me but that’s all part of the adventure.

Second batch is now getting their first burning and will be out in a couple of days.

Do you want to help to fulfill my dream? Please spread the word about my exhibition!
Thanks everyone

Glaze is on

So I had a bit of a set back when first the kids got ill and then digital work demanded a week of production time.  But, I got to work with the great artist Mikael Pauli and his interior design for one of  the new subway stations in Stockholm. This was a fantastic experience  and as always great to work with other artists and share their visions.
But now I’m back on track. Today I did the glazing on the first batch and they are heading into the furnace for the second burning tomorrow. Yes as you can see in the picture Loke broke his ankles on the way in to the first burning. So I’m making a new one.
I’ll post some more images tomorrow. Hopefully they’ll be masterpieces. Might be a pile of dust.
In the end “Everything will burn” 🙂

After quite a few hours in the furnace the first batch is now out in the cold again. Picture update later today.

So it’s after midnight. And i actually thought I’d make it today 🙂

Long day with meetings in Stockholm. Last days of production as the sculpts need to dry before burning I can’t go on creating new pieces until the very end. Horses are great creatures and make good practise. Here is tonight’s sculpt. Need to fix those hind legs before hitting my head unconscious against a pillow.

Horse with live model

This is the name of the exhibition. Well I feel that the word “other” craves more than the two fan art pieces that you can see in earlier post.

Actually the whole fan art part sprung from the idea that I as a illustrator have to be able to communicate art also to those who can’t relate to a tale that is 1000 years old. And I think that there are so many strong characters that will look great as raku sculpts. Well I guess we’ll all see when the day comes. Hopefully everyone can take a piece to heart.

Besides, sculpting something that is already designed is rather restful. It’s much more of a mental game to create something from within your self.

Keep your fingers crossed. First batch is still baking slowly cooling down to be examined tomorrow evening.

Yes Regin looses his head. If you come down to the gallery next month you get to see what the body is up to 🙂

Regins head

Temperature about to go up

Time to do some serious heating on some of the sculpts that are dry enough.
Still have some sculpts to do so this will be a short post.