Tow videos today about the work of Laura Ellen Bacon, a British artist who creates large scale woven sculptures from a variety of materials.
The first video shows two large-scale works in red willow at The Arts & Crafts House in England's Lake District. These curvaceous structures, bonded to the building and the retaining wall of one of the garden terraces can be seen until the end of September 2012.
The next video shows Laura working with polypropylene ribbon on steel frames for an installation at the BLINK festival in the Market Square at Northampton in 2010.
The story of Pueblo Indian pottery
This short documentary from 1952 tells the story of the pottery made by the Pueblo peoples of Arizona and New Mexico.
A sculpture about the passing of time
Kaoru Tsunoda talks about the making of a sculpture at West Dean College. Based upon a clock mechanism, the sculpture is about the passing of time and is a reminder that a little bit of our life disappears every second.
Papier mache sculpture installation
Leah De Prizio talks about her paper mache sculpture installation "Lignum Vitae" at the St. Botolph Club in Boston, MA in 2006.
Textured slab pottery
This video is part of the sharing art project of Northeastern Educational Television of Ohio. Intended for grades 5-10, this video starts with an introduction to pottery and ends with a class making their own work. The middle section follows George Sacco as he creates a giant decorative bowls using a slab pottery technique. He uses breakfast cereal to texture the slabs before fitting them over a large form. The unfinished seams between the slabs creates more textures, as does the rough edge of the slab after rolling. Each bowl is individually fired at low temperatures around 800 - 900 degrees in a simple outdoor brick enclosure with sawdust and straw.
Chip carving basic cut
Marty Leenhouts shows how to make simple three corner designs with a chip carving knife.
This is done in wood, but I wonder if potters or polymer clay artists ever use this technique?
This is done in wood, but I wonder if potters or polymer clay artists ever use this technique?
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