Josef Peters

Currently California based Artist, Sculptor. Instagram: @Josef_Peters JosefPeters.Weebly.com Twitter: @Josef_Peters All Images are of my work unless reblogged or otherwise stated, most images mirrored from Instagram.

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Hand made all the way. Just remade the handle on the knife, great piece of Jatoba hard wood set with steel pins. Hand forged spring steel 9” blade with sawback. Shaped and oiled Jatoba handle. Hand stitched and carved leather belt sheath. #nootherway #handmade #forged #forgedsteel #knife #metal #metalwork #wood #woodisgood #woodwork #woodcraft #craft #leather #leatherwork #leathercarving #outdoors #handmadeallday (at Red Lodge, Montana) https://www.instagram.com/p/BnxJtkSnNkx/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=tuoaeqvd938y

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Sketchy Sketchin’ Looking at a bit of Egon Schiele tonight #art #drawing #sketch #illustration #tonedpaper #schiele #inspired #ink #coloredpencil #figure #figurative PS that right hand is total shit for sure, like, damn 😅 #didyoueventry (at Red Lodge, Montana)

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Couple progress shots then the final drawing, in both warm and cold light. #art #drawing #sketch #practice #tonedpaper #figure #figurative #colorpencil #foreshorten #foreshortening (at Red Lodge, Montana)

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#Repost from @ceramic_sculpture_culture Curated this week by @emily_nickel ・・・ I find watching other artists sculpt so relaxing and mesmerizing...like watching a slow motion magic trick. Hope you all enjoy watching @kjbowen's process as much as I do. The video opens with Kelsey's piece "Swing" and closes with her current work in progress, fresh from her studio at @redlodgeclaycenter, where she is a long term Artist in Residence. From Kelsey's artist statement: "To dwell within the naivety of childhood is to simultaneously exist within both a fairy-tale, and a nightmare. The unknown holds both fantastic magic and terrifying mystery, a place where the balance between danger and pleasure walk a blurred line that separates the tragedies and gentle memories of adolescence. This distorted child-lens through which a child’s stories and understandings are derived is a quality of surrealism that fascinates and fuels my work. My sculptures are often vessels for the echoes of small children playing; sometimes they’re the echoes of my own voice borrowed from the places they were made years ago. My tactile relationship with clay aims towards pushing the material to pretend to be something it isn’t, creating an experience like childish make-believe that translates the clay into my surreal landscapes and stories. The chameleon blending of clay from one object to another adds cohesion to the ideas of memory, making all aspects of the narrative aesthetically come from the same tangent of ideas. When I’m working with a piece, I feel in fleeting moments that it’s alive. For me, playing with my forms and creating these moments for myself are my last lingering stitches of childhood. For a moment, the fantastical objects in my world are alive and the stories I am telling are curiously possible." . . . 🎉👏🏼🎉👏🏼🎉👏🏼🎉

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A couple a months ago my Opa passed at the age of 93, my grandfather on my dads side. Being Dutch, I made an Urn in a Delft fashion. The top section holds water and acts as a traditional tulip vase, the lower section will hold remains. Today it was placed along side the urn I made for my uncle here at my Oma’s house. Rust gemakkelijk, jullie twee . . The Urn portrays the house he was born in in The Netherlands, generic delft style windmill, the house that he built here in the states, and our family coat of arms . . #art #ceramic #urn #death #age #life #delft #blue #dutch (at Escalon, California)

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Set up in Davis for CCACA 2018! Come check out my piece along with a massive collection of other great ceramics works at 240 G street here in Downtown Davis. #art #ceramics #clay #ccaca #ccaca2018 #human #figure (at Davis, California)

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Latest instrument, 6 playable bronze wound strings tuned as a guitar (CFA# D# gc) Accompanied by 12 sympathetic strings that vibrate in resonance on a Delrin Jawari bridge. (The Jawari is new and at the moment less vocal than it will be once the strings have had time to adjust themselves properly. But there is a drone happening currently) . Steel leg saddle riveted in place via bronze, guitar bridge and nut also bronze. . The Infinity sound hole provides a pretty present natural echo (unsure if this comes through in the video) Fairly deep timbre but very fun to play. . . #art #handmade #instrument #wood #woodwork #music #sound #acoustic #infinity #resonance #sympathetic #jawari #steel #leather #leatherwork #improv #echo (at Mountain View Cemetery)

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Couldn’t resist the rainy weather yesterday, new instrument in the works, about half way done, mini preview 🎼 . . #art #wood #woodworking #music #instrument #guitar #handmade #steel #sound #craft #handcrafted #preview #wip

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Synesthetic Notation and Gourd-based fingerboard upgrade. For me, 0-9 each embody a color, this can be seen on the decoration of the fingerboard what each numbers’ color is. . #art #color #synesthisia #synesthetic #music #instrument #handmade #notation #gourd #duckface (at California College of the Arts)

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Gourd! Quick little Gourd Jam-stick. 4 strings at the moment but can have 6. Tuned in C, played with a steel thumb pick. Bridge and sound board held on in tension only. 🎼🎼🎼 . . #art #music #gourd #guitar (?) #sure #steelstring #instrument #handmade #wood #woodwork #onthecheap

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Today is the day! . My website is now up to date, link in bio for new work and layout 💀👍🏼 (at Minnesota Street Project)

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Me Without Me 2018 . Opening Reception tomorrow! 3/31 @minnesotastreetproject (1275 minnesota street SF) from 3-6p! If you’re in the area (and even if you’re not) stop by to check out the first half for the CCA MFA Thesis exhibition. . . #art #sculpture #clay #ceramic #ceramicsculpture #figure #figurative #red #redclay #redclayallday #metal #steel #steelandceramic #float #dismorphia (at Minnesota Street Project)

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🙊 . . . #art #sculpture #ceramic #ceramicsculpture #figure #figurative #red #clay #minesotastreetproject #mfa #thesis #show #previewverão (at Minnesota Street Project)

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💀☠️💀 . . . #art #clay #ceramics #slip #underglaze (at Red Lodge, Montana)

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March 31st is the opening reception for the California College or the Arts MFA Thesis exhibition at 1275 Minnesota Street Projects (@minnesotastreetproject) in San Francisco. An amazing opportunity to see work by 43 talented artists from the current batch of Masters of Fine Arts students. Opening reception is from 3-6pm 3/31 If you’re in the area do stop by and see the large figure I’ve been currently working on 😎👍🏼 . #art #artschool #mfa #thesis #thesisexhibition (at California College of the Arts)

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Quick Rock-On bottle opener going out to @bumblebeehollowfarm . Keep an eye out, I may be doing more random give aways in the future, even you can be as lucky as @bumblebeehollowfarm . #art #metal #steel #bottleopener #bones #rockon #sometal #metalart #forge #forged #oxyacetylene #welding (at Mountain View Cemetery)

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I think I could have been pronounced legally dead for the past 30 minutes, just now getting a regular heart beat back. ☠️ Bit of a twisted ankle in the moving process but bro is standing on his own still. Anxiety at an all time high until it’s done firing. In the last photo you can see that there’s Maybe, 1/8-3/16ths worth of room between the metal and the kiln top 😬 . . . #art #sculpture #clay #ceramic #ceramicsculpture #kiln #blaauw #figure #figurative #processshot #wip #fire #red #redclay #stresssssssss (at Mountain View Cemetery)