Beach Fossils Jams

Big ups to my homeboy Chris Burke, the dude in the Zwan t-shirt. If you didn't know you could wear a Zwan shirt ironically, you clearly have never met Christopher Burke- scholar, marksman, gentleman bad-ass. Check out his myspace: myspace.com/redredromans

Works in Progress

These are some in process shots I have taken today and yesterday in Jo Whaley's class "The Theater in Photography" focusing on studio photography, lighting, and costume. I am having a good time thus far and excited about taking more weird pictures.

I have taken two other classes this summer, Yuri Kobayashi's "Joinery, Joinery, Joinery" and Phil Renato's "Polymer Chain Reactions". Both were awesome. Summer is righteous.

Two songs I have been listening to on repeat: Joe Walsh- "Life of Illusion", and Them-"It's All Over Now, Baby Blue"

Proposed Biology/ Geography

Colors, Summer, Flight

Green Painting with Lines

Size: One full sheet of Antique Rives BFK

Medium: Pen and Ink (Rapidograph) on top of Acrylic Paint

Creature Drawings

Shibboleths?

Cups for Sale

Available at my new etsy shop: Mark Warren Studio

Blue-Green Cup with Straw

(Photo Credit: Hannah Barefoot)

Porcelain Cup 5:15pm Thursday May 20

New Work, Spring

Some new work I made this spring in Tom Spleth's class. These two are high fired porcelain, based off a strange plumbing fixture I found over the winter. They are intended to be cups for liquids, but would work well as pencil holders or soup bowls.
+Coming soon: white cups. (apparently taking pictures of white objects on a whitish background makes it hard to focus the camera.)

Glaze Tests

(Cone 10 Reduction; Porcelain)
And yes, the bottom of the bowl is supposed to look like a Star Destroyer from Star Wars

Guten Abend, Y'all

So... after a big push into the information superhighway, I have been curiously silent.
Watching. Waiting. Planning.
What is that guy up to? I'm sure is the hot question of the moment. Well...
As a part of the Penland Core Program (if you are thinking of applying you should) we have the winters off, and the rest of the year is very much "on". We have just received our newest batch of hatchling eaglets ready to soar: Ian Henderson, Amanda Thatch, Rosina Saqib, Ele Annad, and Daniel Beck. They arrived last week in a snowstorm. Due to their hale, hearty natures, they all made it safe. Since then, we have been busy as a group settling in to our house, getting ready for the year, participating in team building exercises (trust falls, glider construction, name games, etc.)
So anyways, the winter time of introspection and tangential research at a leisurely pace is over. I hope to post some images of things I have made in those wintry months, but I will have to do some serious time management, never one of my strongest suits.

Current projects:

• A new piece in the "Engine Series"
• Candlesticks
• Spiffing up the new studio space and roomspace
• Two new members of the "Inscrutable Series"
• Transferring roughly 4 hours of tape music recorded in Philadelphia with Senator Carrigan
• And of course, markwarrenstudio.com

Keep watching the skies.....