Artist Watch: Lanzarin Antonio

Hey bloggers.....
So when I was trying to find artists that did work similar to what I want my concentration to be, I came across a couple of artists that made basket forms. One artist in particular was this guy named Lanzarin Antonio. He makes ceramic baskets, but not in the way I had originally planned on making mine.

He makes his out of coils and strips of slab clay. Looking at his work made me reconsider what I wanted my perameters to be for my concentration. Originally, I was planning on making the baskets strictly out of clay slurry. But now that I'm thinking about what I want to do more, I'm kind of considering making my concentration a more borad genre of "baskets". Let me know what you think!

I Think My Concentration Will Be.........

BASKETS!!!! Baskets made of clay. I started doing these towards the end of last year. They're really fun to make but the problem is that they are SO DELICATE. last year only like 50% of the ones I made actually survived through glazeware. So I would probably have to make a lot of them since half of them will break. I want to experiment more with shape and pattern of the lines and also the shape of the basket itself. I also want to try different clays/glazes (raku?!?). This is going to be very interesting....

TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK!!

Concentrating......

So over the past week we've had to come up with 25 concentration ideas. The we had to narrow it down to 5 ideas. And then we had to pick 2... all in just a week. In my PERSONAL opinion, I don't think concentrations are a good idea and I really don't like the concept of it. I get that the college board wants to see that we are able to focus on just one theme and create art pieces based on that theme. But, as an artist, I feel like we shouldnt be so limited. Concentrations just stress me out. I like being able to do what I feel like doing. If I were rebellious enough I probably just wouldn't do a concentration. But I'm not a rebel. And I want to submit a portfolio. And get a good score on that portfolio. So I guess I'm going to do a concentration.....