A Look at a Few New Ceramic Art pottery Pieces That I am Working On at South Coast Antiques & Gallery

Here are a few images of some of the new ceramic art pottery pieces that I am currently working on at South Coast Antiques & Gallery. I have been painting some of these pieces the last few days. Once they are finished I will post them for you to see. It will be a couple of weeks, because I only am having my pottery fired every two weeks now due to the fact that I have been a bit more busy in the shop the last month or so.

I have been doing a number of new pieces that are covered in large spikes. I think that spikes will be the new "in" thing for fall. Just watch and see, everyone will be wanting spikes.

The Influence of Roger Dean on the Art of Michael W. Moses

I am often asked where I come up with my ideas for my art. I always tell people that I have spent almost my entire life looking at art, antiques, and jewelry. Studying styles, colors, and techniques. Most of my works are based on nothing other than my own personal visions.
There have been a vast number of artistic influences involved in my artistic development and it is not as much that I tried to copy the artists that influenced me as much as I have strived to recreate the feeling and mood that I felt when I viewed their art.

The artist Roger Dean is one of the artists that made me realize that there was more to art than just creating things from our world, we can create things from other worlds...Alien worlds! One can create the most fantastic of creations and with a little skill can convince the eyes of others as they look at our art that they are viewing something that exists in reality.

when I first saw Roger Dean's work on album covers in the early 1970's, I was taken by how he used so many of the artistic elements that I had always been intrigued by such as art nouveau, antique Japanese prints,and the aesthetic movement and blended them in his own unique way to create a view of things that had only been seen in dreams previously.

Mister Dean's works are exceptional in that they create a world where we not only see what is before us in his images, but we can also see in our minds eye what is beyond the image. They make us think and wonder and they force us to step further into his work. I guess I can say they make us use our imaginative skills a little bit more. The magic of Roger Dean's work is not always so much as what he has created as in what is just a few feet outside of the view that we see.

To see more art by Roger Dean please click the picture below and visit his gallery at his website. One may also visit Roger Dean on Face Book.

 

The main reason for this post though is that August 31 is Mister Dean's birth day and I would like to wish him 

A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

 

August ,Sold Pottery,Long Beach Bead Show, South Coast Antiques!

Well, it's been a while since I've made a post, so, here I go. I have been busy doing a bunch of different non pottery related things. I have been working on jewelry, getting antiques priced and ready to put out in the shop and we've also had a larger than normal number of people coming in wanting appraisals and wanting to sell us stuff!

Yesterday we went to a small bead show in Long Beach. We picked up a number of really nice beads. I got a
pretty good deal on some Cloisonné cross shaped beads. I also picked up some nice irregularity shape jade beads. One of my best deals was on a bunch of faceted gemstone beads. I did a bit of work on pottery last week. I worked on painting a bit. But I was not really feeling up to speed, so it was all a bit half-hearted.

The Other Side of the Vally Plate
SOLD

One bright point was on Saturday when I had a couple come in to buy a piece of my pottery. they spent a fairly short time looking it over and then the woman said there it is! The Other Side of the Vally Plate. That is the one I want!  So she bought it. I must admit that it is always an ego boost to sell a piece of my pottery.

August has traditionally been slow in our shop. The previous owners of the antique shop that was here before South Coast Antiques and Gallery, said that August was always slow for them also. So far this August we have not done to bad.