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Sculptural Cold Finishes: Jacked Rabbit
Cold finishes are any surface treatment on ceramic sculptures that are not traditionally fired in a kiln. Glazes, underglazes and stains are all kiln-fired approaches that are classically used to finish ceramic pieces. We generally don’t use glazes as they tend to obscure sculpted details making them look like they’ve been dipped in cream. They can also be unpredictable. Despite extensive testing, the various factors that occur within a firing environment can cause disasters. One…
YESTERDAY’S POST
Cinematic Lighting for Outdoor Concepts
February 5, 2025 - Here are a couple of lighting methods I use to help my outdoor concepts work better. These work well on interiors also but interiors will probably be a later post. I’m sure there might be a name for this already but I’ve been calling it Broken Lighting in my head so I’ll do so here. Here is a plane with the sunlight at high noon. There might be a project where this is what the scene calls for but for now let’s change this and use light to create depth and space. In this image I added a cucoloris, sometimes called a kook, to simulate cloud cover. It’s that ugly looking thing I’d have to probably paint out in the sky at the top of frame. In film they use kooks on sets to break…
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