A Crazy Week

     This week has been insane. I put off a lot of my work for the semester until the end, which is always a terrible idea, but I do it every semester. I am taking 6 classes that totals 18 credit hours. I only have 2 studio classes, but both classes require so many hours of work a week. These classes are 3 hours long, two times per week. They expect us to be in the studio an extra 6 hours a week on top of that, which puts me at about 24 hours a week just in my two studio classes which are sculpture and small metals. I also have an art festival that I will be a part of next weekend in Rome, GA, and a pottery sale in the social sciences building the following Monday-Thursday that I need to make work for. I have a pottery wheel at home, but my schedule has been so insane that I have not used it in a while.
     My sculpture for the semester, for those of you who may not have seen my previous post about it, is a 6 foot coral sculpture that will highlight the effects of coral bleaching. Of course, I put off making the coral until the last minute and had to sculpt around 30 feet of coral tubes.  That was no easy feat..  In the ceramic department, they have a greenware cut off day, which means after that day, no more wet clay can be made or fired and they will only be firing glaze kilns. That cut off day was the Wednesday before thanksgiving...Sooo for me that meant making 30 feet of coral, and making enough pottery to sell at both of those events..and working all day Tuesday for the bakery, and doing other projects for my sales class, social media class, and 2 history classes. Stressful to say the least.  I spent a total of 22 straight hours working on coral and making mugs/bowls with no sleep, and went straight to work for a 10 hour shift.. I was barely awake.. I went home, slept for a much needed 8 hours, and woke up at 6am the next day, which was Wednesday, to continue making coral for another 17 hours in order to have it at school by midnight to be fired. I finally have all of the coral completed, and around $1500 worth of pottery to sell next week.
     I will keep you all updated on the coral sculpture and post pictures really soon!
The first picture is all of the work that was completed in 3 days of last week which includes 33 mugs, 3 bowls, 1 strainer, 1 plate, and 30 feet of coral tubes.  The second picture is all of my coral ready to be painted and assembled.