Your Girl Friday Creations

Original works and creations in a vast multitude of mediums. Selling pieces. Taking commissions. Pottery, sculpture, paintings, drawings, furniture…You name it, I can create it. Usually. Please visit my new website for more pictures, prices, and how-tos on commissions and purchasing! www.ygfcreations.wix.com/ygfcreations Call on YourGirlFriday for any of your artistic and imaginative desires.

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Spent all afternoon working on my new altered book bag (box). Made from an old girl scout handbook. Hellooooo feminism. Enjoy the progress pictures =]

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Back to altered book creating! So this one isn't exactly a bag per say...but it has a bag involved. Be on the look out for more progress pictures!

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From plans to completion, here's the set of book shelves I've been working on.  Commissioned furniture piece set to the patron's specifications and needs. 

 Classic Oak stain and versatility are its selling points. Shelves were originally designed to exist side by side, taller ends mirroring each other in the middle, but after some discussion with the patron, we came up with yet ANOTHER way for arranging the piece.  

Fully functioning pictures of them holding actual books to come!

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Shelves are sanded and sturdy! Stain to come soon!

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Hey All!

I recently launched a website with my full stock online that's much easier to browse than on this blog.  I also have cool things like picture galleries, monthly updates, how-to purchases, and artist statement information.

I've worked really hard to get this up and running and I really hope it will get my name and my art out there.  Share it with your friends and family! 

My main goal (aside from selling my pottery) is to make commissioned pieces for people, like the pair of bookshelves I am currently working on as seen on this blog.  

Please feel free to contact me via the messaging application on my site, send me a message on here, or check out my new facebook page as well (give it a like too while you're at it ;] ) www.facebook.com/yourgirlfridaycreations

I'm really trying to get out there as an artist for hire so please reblog and share!

-YGF

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Hey Folks!  I've been working on a new commission piece: a pair of bookshelves for a friend.  This guy has some serious knowledge he needs to store on these puppies (all the books and whatnots from his undergraduate career) so here's to hoping they're sturdy enough!  Had some great help from my dad with deciding on lengths for bevel cuts and I'm going to start sanding and staining soon!

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Spending the last day of the year indulging in a craft I love and have missed.

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Blog will be undergoing a HUGE overhaul.

Please excuse the nonsense of movement and changes.  I should have new posts up soon as well as a new theme that is laid out in a way more conducive to what I am trying to accomplish with this blog.  

Thanks for that patience folks =]

-YGF

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My apartment was in such dire need of christmas spirit so I got a tree. And by "got a tree" I mean "found bough-like pieces of wood in the scrap wood pile in the studio and put them together in a tree shape with lots of glue and three nails and did an artful (a word which here means quick and basic gist of a) paint job". So proud. More art to come soon folks!

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Casually making a christmas tree for my apartment with scraps from the wood pile and glue.

Pictures to come.

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It finally happened!! Here's lovely clumsy me at the Art of the Book opening on Thursday. And what's that in the background? Oh, that just happens to be my art piece. That took second place in the altered book category. Bernadette's Bag. No big deal folks. It was so surreal seeing my piece on display with so many other fantastic and creative book pieces. Having people ask me how I got started and who Bernadette is was even more so. I felt like I was really in over my head with how much more experienced the other artists were but they didn't seem to mind. I want to thank one of my best friends, Jason, for braving the opening with me and taking my picture while I was receiving my award (just like a dorky dad would). And my professor, Mitch, for coming out to support me as well. He introduced me to the idea of making altered books so I owe him a great deal of thanks. Today, my lovely and supportive high school art teacher, Fuller, is continuing her role of being one of the most supportive and caring people I have ever had the honor of knowing in my entire life by driving up to Rochester to see my piece and get lunch. I began working on this piece in a work day she had for her students and having her see the bookends of the piece (pun completely intended, you all should know me better by now) is so thrilling. Also thank you to my grandma, Marty, for calling me the night before, day of, and day after to congratulate me and wish me luck and tell me how proud she is of me. That means so much. I love you, grandma =] Thank you again to the people listed above and thank you all (my blog readers, all 6 of you, especially Leah because she always likes and reblogs my posts) for looking at my creations and following what I love and live to do: make stuff.

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More mugs!  The first one is already claimed and I have to say that raspberry on the new sky blue glaze!  one of the other brass knuckle mugs is also claimed (they just haven't picked yet).  Below them we have a pinch pot and a cornered tea cup.  I'm really liking the glaze combination of licorice with colored glaze on white giving a kind of neon/lite brite look.  Needless to say I think I may develop my own personal set of those colors.

I have more work to post as soon as it gets out of the glaze kiln!

I'll have pictures of the art opening coming later this week, too! (which I still CANNOT believe that I got into/actually placed) And I may or may not have to write a bio about myself or speak at the opening.

Funny story about that: the woman called to ask me if I was going to go and she told me about the night's events.  The people who placed will either be having a bio read about themselves or say something about themselves and their work.  They were going to write one about me but....i really haven't done too much yet so they couldn't find anything on me.  Ah, to love art yet be a mystery.  There's irony in there somewhere I'm sure.  

So not only do I have to speak about myself and work in front of people, but these people are actually other esteemed, known, and shown artists.  What's that shuffling? Oh, just me shaking in my boots.

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it happened

You guys.  I placed second in the Art of the Book show.  I cannot fully convey my excitement and this all just seems more unreal than actually getting into the show.

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Last week in my studio class we finished our simple forms.  This pieces were burnished using a fine slip mixed with sodium chlorinate and then buffed before being bisque fired.  At the end of the high-firing we removed each piece from the kiln while still radiating with heat and laid horse hair on them to burn.  The effect was those crazy squiggle lines and darkened areas.  Though it looks fantastic, it smells the opposite.  This form is meant to be mounted and hung on a wall so that it juts out like a shelf/vase.  I'm thinking for cacti.  It has a south-western feel about it.  

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Perhaps I should not spend so much time in the studio by myself.  I tend to grown ceramic facial hair.

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Hey Folks! This is pre-fired work so don't use up all your excitement yet! (Even though I'm chomping at the bit with pride for this little vessel). For my ceramics class we had the assignment for making an architectural structure with slab. But more in depth, it had to be a metaphor for yourself. I'll post a whole statement with what it all means once its fired and stained but derive what you will from what you see now =] This baby is called "I Am The Queen of My Ship"

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By the by

So immensely apologetic my dearest creationers for not having undated in the longest of times.  Life has been demanding and creativity has been sacrificed in the request that I conform to the real world and it's obligations.

I am now back at school where I will be creating in my handbuilding ceramics class (already made three pieces and am raku firing on Thursday!) with plans for many more.  I hope to find some speck of time to throw because I haven't in ages and maybe spend a rainy day painting to finish the Venice Canal piece.

Regardless, I will now be enslaved to check my email daily and thus frequent the computer and, by self motivation, will post more often of my doings.

But hey, you folks could frequent my blog as well.  Just saying =]

Keep it creatively classy. 

-YGF