by Richard Weigand | Nov 6, 2017 | Richard Weigand
Working With Clients If you put your work in front of people and get people’s reaction to it, you take that in and are affected by it. It’s what an artist needs to do. When you do it, your work will change. I told one client that I’d found a really nice board to use...
by Richard Weigand | Nov 2, 2017 | Richard Weigand
Relationship With the Materials I think when you are leaning wood, like learning anything, you start out struggling. You have to begin with learning your materials and your tools as well as your techniques. You learn them and you accumulate a language. The more you...
by Richard Weigand | Oct 30, 2017 | Richard Weigand
Mastery of Skills I remember making pottery. Sometimes, I would make a piece and when it came out of the kiln, I didn’t like it. So I had to think about why I didn’t like it, and try again to produce the exact piece I’d had in mind – the form, the weight, the glaze,...
by Richard Weigand | Oct 27, 2017 | Richard Weigand
After a while, that kind of knowledge sinks down into your mind and you use it as you need it, without dredging it up formally and laying it out as a kind of blueprint. So, while you don’t have to look at a chair that you’re in the process of building and ask...
by Richard Weigand | Oct 23, 2017 | Richard Weigand
Richard Weigand has reached a plateau where the pieces have fallen into place. For him, environment, relationships, and artistry are matured, fully formed, and available to be brought by his consciousness to play in the activities in which he chooses to deploy them....
by Richard Weigand | Oct 11, 2017 | Richard Weigand
I’m not really much of a flag-waver. I’m not trying to promote a political position or a trendy topic of discussion. But utilizing resources thoughtfully is just logical. Simply living on planet earth means you do a degree of harm, but there’s a logical degree to...
