Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Fresh out of the kiln: A new glaze painting

BEN Belknap Ceramic Glaze Painting Cave
Black underglaze on porcelain
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This one turned out great. It's pretty darn small, only 3 1/4 by 4 1/4", but very detailed.

It's for this show that I have coming up in August. Here is the card:
Ben Belknap Ceramic Art Roscoe Gallery
It's a new gallery that Derik Van Beers just opened up. The back half is his studio and the front half is the gallery. It is very neat and tidy and looks great.
Here are the details:
Roscoe Ceramic Gallery
473 25th St., Suite D
Oakland, California
Gallery Hours Saturdays 11 am - 5 pm
415-515-3174

Ben Belknap Ceramic Sculpture Dam LandscapeI also just got out these completed sculptures of dams. They were really smaller studies for large pieces but they came out really nice.
Ben Belknap Ceramic Sculpture Dam Landscape

Ben Belknap Ceramic Sculpture Fat Man

Friday, June 17, 2011

Sketch Book Drawings

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So I've been going through my sketchbooks in search of inspiration for my show in a couple of months. I've made a lot of flat picture frame-like ceramic plaques so I need quite a bit of content to fill them. These drawings span probably like 2004 to the present so some of them are kind of old. I've included both drawings of things I typically do as well as a few weird drawings as I would like to get a little weirder in my work.
I've been drawing and sculpting rocket cars lately. Here are a couple:
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This one is based on the caption:
Ben Belknap all rights reserved 2011This is a drawing I did for a friend who was going to have a fashion line called "Squirrel and Cross Bones"
Ben Belknap all rights reserved 2011This is drawing of a photo of some german lady that was at a party at the co-op house that my friends Brandon and Erich used to live in. Dumpasaurus is completely unrelated but written on the same page.
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Ben Belknap all rights reserved 2011My friend Brandon drew this guy in my sketchbook. I think this was a t-shirt idea.
Ben Belknap all rights reserved 2011This is a drawing of a bed that used to be at a cabin that we used to go to when I was a kid. It was a really old spring based hospital bed that was all worn out so you'd always roll into the middle when you were sleeping in it. My family called it the Fat Lady.
Ben Belknap all rights reserved 2011This is a stupid drawing I did late at night.
Ben Belknap all rights reserved 2011Math Rebel
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Ben Belknap all rights reserved 2011I had a dream with a drive through pencil sharpener. I should have drawn it in pencil.
Ben Belknap all rights reserved 2011Don't ask me what this is about. Cat/Bus
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Ben Belknap all rights reserved 2011I drew the lady on the left with this amazing old water based sepia ink that I think I got at the Depot for reuse years ago. You just do your drawing in ink and then use a brush and water to shade the ink. It's like one of those coloring books that had the color in dots where you just needed to use a brush with water to color in the pictures.
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