tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73171764404165797232024-03-08T09:32:53.157-08:00Art By Nan SheppardNan Sheppardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02526627128978409559noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7317176440416579723.post-616101754595851172011-07-07T01:55:00.000-07:002019-10-16T03:15:55.300-07:00Unfinished: Sketches and Heaps<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0CmJuVCaTq0/ThVyNCdXAFI/AAAAAAAABGY/cso90fAqk00/s1600/Nan+Sheppard.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0CmJuVCaTq0/ThVyNCdXAFI/AAAAAAAABGY/cso90fAqk00/s640/Nan+Sheppard.jpg" width="480" /></a>I was going through my heaps of rejects recently, fun! This one is a banana plant with charcoal and cat footprints</div>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-c6MMHhqTnng/ThVyOzmqkHI/AAAAAAAABGg/CLumWQpxDCA/s1600/Nan+Sheppard+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-c6MMHhqTnng/ThVyOzmqkHI/AAAAAAAABGg/CLumWQpxDCA/s640/Nan+Sheppard+3.jpg" width="480" /></a>View Through a Window, watercolour. </div>
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tBpNOl0x5Z4/ThVyPq-IcRI/AAAAAAAABGk/soJi-6sT5Vk/s1600/Nan+Sheppard+4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tBpNOl0x5Z4/ThVyPq-IcRI/AAAAAAAABGk/soJi-6sT5Vk/s640/Nan+Sheppard+4.jpg" width="480" /></a>Port of Spain House, charcoal</div>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RmwNRb3nyf4/ThVyQlrO8nI/AAAAAAAABGo/4arzdZCogS8/s1600/Nan+Sheppard+5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RmwNRb3nyf4/ThVyQlrO8nI/AAAAAAAABGo/4arzdZCogS8/s640/Nan+Sheppard+5.jpg" width="640" /></a>Still Life, Mixed Media. I love to use oil pastels and watercolour, the pastels resist the watercolour in wonderful ways</div>
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vSxw91tx7GQ/ThVyRA1O6gI/AAAAAAAABGs/36rapcX6Zno/s1600/Nan+Sheppard+6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="396" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vSxw91tx7GQ/ThVyRA1O6gI/AAAAAAAABGs/36rapcX6Zno/s640/Nan+Sheppard+6.jpg" width="640" /></a>Port of Spain House, Chalk on Paper Bag</div>
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Nan Sheppardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02526627128978409559noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7317176440416579723.post-13891778085632138362009-12-21T01:31:00.000-08:002019-10-16T03:14:17.405-07:00Ceramics, Watercolours and Art<div align="center">
<img alt="" border="0" height="181" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5219483318786014674" src="https://bp2.blogger.com/_hCsoyM3cQ0Q/SG9UbKdRPdI/AAAAAAAAAJk/JYNASqjkZzQ/s400/maison+tiles+ART.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="400" /> Above, 30x72 Inches Huge<br />
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My main medium for years has been ceramic tile. I am famously bad at taking pictures of my finished work. </div>
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<a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_hCsoyM3cQ0Q/SG9VzT4B1yI/AAAAAAAAAJ0/qCqfGalsKVM/s1600-h/tilework+in+progress.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5219484833142658850" src="https://bp3.blogger.com/_hCsoyM3cQ0Q/SG9VzT4B1yI/AAAAAAAAAJ0/qCqfGalsKVM/s200/tilework+in+progress.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a>I use Duncan and Gare glazes for painting on the fired clay. These are a great convenience, and the colours are gorgeous as you can see!<br />
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<a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_hCsoyM3cQ0Q/SG9YPVBA1HI/AAAAAAAAAKM/-kTySqOeXAc/s1600-h/ajoupa2.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5219487513508369522" src="https://bp2.blogger.com/_hCsoyM3cQ0Q/SG9YPVBA1HI/AAAAAAAAAKM/-kTySqOeXAc/s200/ajoupa2.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;" /></a><br />
<a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_hCsoyM3cQ0Q/SG9YPT0OOjI/AAAAAAAAAKU/QiyHZhOSC44/s1600-h/ajoupa3.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" height="400" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5219487513186286130" src="https://bp0.blogger.com/_hCsoyM3cQ0Q/SG9YPT0OOjI/AAAAAAAAAKU/QiyHZhOSC44/s400/ajoupa3.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;" width="268" /></a>For these 18-inch vases, a potter named Chandool threw the forms and I decorated them with "Slip". Slip is wet clay which has Oxides added to it for colour. Cobalt makes that black background of the jellyfish, which is one of my favorite pieces ever. These pots are decorated when they are "leather hard", so that the oxide can be applied with a paintbrush and then scraped off. It's a bit like the school art where you colour a piece of paper with crayons, paint over it and then scrape off your design. These were fired after decoration, and then glazed on the inside. Chandool the potter died a few years ago, and his son Ganase works at Ajoupa. Chandool is sorely missed, he was a genius potter.<br />
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<a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_hCsoyM3cQ0Q/SG9aGGi5C-I/AAAAAAAAAKs/F3JomB_A3Xk/s1600-h/Ajoupa03041_1.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5219489554028366818" src="https://bp2.blogger.com/_hCsoyM3cQ0Q/SG9aGGi5C-I/AAAAAAAAAKs/F3JomB_A3Xk/s200/Ajoupa03041_1.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a> These were also thrown on the wheel by Chandool, but then they were "bisque" fired and decorated with glaze.<br />
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<a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_hCsoyM3cQ0Q/SG9cWsvg_QI/AAAAAAAAAK0/BdBg1hmuXik/s1600-h/watercolour.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" height="400" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5219492038183025922" src="https://bp3.blogger.com/_hCsoyM3cQ0Q/SG9cWsvg_QI/AAAAAAAAAK0/BdBg1hmuXik/s400/watercolour.JPG" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;" width="300" /></a>I am getting back into watercolours. It's pretty exciting, and waaaay less disaster-prone! With ceramics, you can spend weeks working on a piece and then you open the kiln and AAAARGH! Disaster! Reds burn out, clay cracks (or explodes spectacularly!), weird things happen when chemicals collide at a thousand degrees. Duncan and Gare change their recipes regularly, and so do the tile manufacturers, and that makes the end results uncertain.<br />
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Of course the boys spend time at the Ajoupa Workshop, and at my studio. Chas made this "Pot Head" for my brushes, and he has recieved ORDERS for more! He's such an entrepreneur!Nan Sheppardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02526627128978409559noreply@blogger.com1