George Karbus

When I was about 15 my brother showed me this website belonging to George Karbus. As he is a surfer he loved his surfer pictures. Me on the other hand I loved everything on the site, making me check it more and more regularly.

 These are some of my favourite pieces on the site. I love the composition and effects he gets through his images. Even in black and white you can see vibrant contrasts between the black and white. He does mostly under water scenes, what a lot of photographers don't do, and I love these as it is not something I see usually, it opens up the underwater life to me. some day id love to own an camera I can use under water and do deep sea diving.

Photography :D

Today we got a brief to make a presentation about ourselves..


This is some of my ideas that came to mind..

 Me... well my head...

 Face book... my main obsession

 I'm the middle child of three. This is my older brother, Jamie and younger sister, Rachel.

 

 Finally, I thought I should include my first pieces of photography. These went intentional photography's to ever use. The top one is my brother surfing. His friend owns an SLR and gave it to me when they went surfing one day and I got some good shots.

I think this one on the left was a bit earlier, but we were in castlegregory surfing and afterwards hung out on the beach. Ryan and Eoghan decided they wanted to remake some scene in a movie, and found this sand Don. The camera was put on sports mode for me, but it was how all these photos came out made me interested and excited to see what else I could do with a camera.


  Below this is a picture of one of my favourite pastimes, well I suppose habits, Tea and biscuits at the fire.. and my cat, she loves her getting her photo taken.

Finished

These are my finished products from the past two weeks of work in ceramics.

I found the work interesting and enjoyed making the following. however i wish i spend more time on some of my work and got them to a better quality.

 

Rakuing.

 We also did Rakuing todday. For this you have to use a slip which will remove the glaze during firing. this causes a really cool cracking effect.

 

 

This is one of my pieces that used for this percess. This is the slip glaze.

 Because it was the third time the kiln was on that day, it looked even more spectctular when it was opened.

 This is the pinch pot below after i removed it from the kiln.

Glazing

 

Today Elaine showed us how to glaze our pots that came out of the kiln earlier.

 

 

 Elain demonstarted to us how to do this process. You have to hold the piece into the glaze for 6 seconds, and then shake off the ecess.

 This is one of my pieces that I glazed.

Elaine and Kieren then filled the kiln which is outside and run by gas. This has to reach about 1000 degess and has to soak at 1000 degress for about 10 minutes.

 This is the Kiln when it was opened.

Saw dust is used to give the smoky effect. The objects are taken out of the kiln and are placed in metal bins on a layer of saw dust.

We let this bin closed for about a half hour to a hour and then this is what it looks like when you open it. You then place them into water to cool of. You have to be careful though with hollow objects as there is a poctect of air which and make the object explode if its to hot.

 

Painting.

Today we got to paint the pots we threw last week. i used a painting by picassio and took two parts of it to design this pot.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pots

These are my finished pinch pots:

 

This is a cube i made out of two pinch pots.

I then got a wrapping from garlic and in prited it into the clay. This gives the  texture from the seed pod I was using earlier on in the week.

This is one pinch pot that i closed at one side and tried to get a texture of a seed odd the seed pod.

 Here i made holes in a pinch pot to describe the transparent holes that were in the piece of foam I was looking at.

This also describes the piece of foam as it had bumps on it.

 this describes the shape of the bumps on the foam from the side.

 

 

They are going to be fired today and ill have the biscuit forms up next week.