B. Aline Blanchard

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Porcelain sculpture requires focus, patience, and time. Although I had been working in clay for many years, I did not not attempt porcelain until I met Ki Woon Huh, a Korean master potter who resides in Sarastota, Fl.

 

Ki Woon has taught me the skills that I needed to translate my ideas into 3D. Slab-building a porcelain sculpture differs from the stoneware process, for example. Porcelain is much more temperamental: it dries faster, cracks easier, and shows every flaw.

 

Once the piece is built, I then  incise, carve, and paint the design on the unfired clay. After the first firing and additional painting, the porcelain is fired again at high temperature. This process is risky: too fast a firing, too much moisture in the environment, or a defect in the clay can lead to disaster.

 

If the piece survives, however, the smooth surface and  exquisite detail

of the texture and/or painting is satisfying to both the artist and the art appreciator.

 

 

 

* Private Collection

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks to Gregory Galfo  and Ki Woon Huh for the pictures on this page.

 

 

*Garden Torso, Venice Art Center Portrait & Figure Show 2009, merit award

 

 

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*Neglia Ates

3rd Prize 2008 3-D Show, Venice Art Center, Fl, 200

 

unfired work in progress

  

 

 

 

Deja Vu Cairo

unfired work in progress

 

*Tree Witch, porcelain*

 

 

*Leaf Woman.porcelain

 

 

 

 

 

 

front view & side views

*Four Nudes on Vessel, porcelain

 

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