Art by Fuzzy

Pottery, Photography, Design - Brandon "Fuzzy" Schwartz

Golf Photos from South Bend

Last Saturday I got to drive over to the Warren Golf Course at Notre Dame and watch the Future Collegians World Tour golf event.  I was most interested in one particular competitor: Ezekiel Schwartz of Brooklyn.  I had my camera so I took a few photos while I was there.

It was a pretty cool event even though the weather was pretty wet and dreary.  All the images were shot on a Canon 30D with either a Canon 28-135 IS or Canon 100-300mm 4.5-5.6 lens.  Images were cropped and slightly adjusted in Photoshop CS4.

Cross Country Shirt Designs: 2010

Now that the cross country season is wrapping up it’s time to reflect…  on the shirt designs.  I put together a few designs for the West Noble Middle School team as well as the West Noble Invitational.  Here you can see the finished designs in shirt form:

2010 cross country shirts

2010 XC shirts

West Noble Middle School Cross Country

West Noble Cross Country

West Noble Cross Country 2010

The WNMS team shirt design was one of a few different ideas.  I downloaded a font called “electric feel” from dafont.com and it made for an interesting design when it was placed on top of the big WN.  Done in Illustrator CS4.

2010 West Noble Invitational

2010 West Noble Invite

2010 West Noble Invite

I created a few different ideas for the Invite design.  The arrow design was the one that the Shirt Shack liked best.  I’ve been working with them to create some of their other shirt designs as well.  The meet took place on September 18th.  West Noble did well, probably due to their fantastic team shirts… Adobe Illustrator CS4.

New Site Design Released

Unless you are reading this blog’s feed you probably have noticed that the blog and the rest of ArtByFuzzy.com has been redesigned.  I decided to go with an a fluid layout and monochromatic color scheme with big, bold text.  I decided that the main purpose of my site is to show off my artwork.  Therefore, the images should be the part of the page that stands out and the text should be secondary but easy to read.

I created a child theme for the WordPress theme framework called Thematic.  Eventually I hope to clean up the child theme, which I call Basic Gray and release it to the public.  Its pretty simple and I’m sure it will improve over time but it accomplishes what I need right now.

After creating a WordPress theme for the blog I just transferred most of CSS code to a new style sheet to use for the static pages of the site.  I also broke the site into subdomains based on medium.  So now my ceramic work will be found at www.clay.artbyfuzzy.com.

I know there will be some bugs to work out and I’m working on filling in some more content.  Eventually there will be a full gallery and all the links will work like they’re supposed to.  If you have any constructive criticism or questions let me know.

Summer Pottery – Mugs, Vases, Bowls

I glaze fired a number of items way back in July.  Then I got busy doing other projects like making a backdrop for photographing ceramics, redesigning a website, and getting settled into a new school.  Finally, you can see the finished pieces from that summer glaze fire below.  I haven’t really been in the clay studio much since then but I’ve got some ideas rolling around in my head for the next time I get some time at the wheel.

All items are glaze fired to cone 6 and are either Warm Brown Stoneware from Amaco or Speckled Stoneware by Laguna.

Site Redesign Preview

For the past couple days I’ve been working on a new design for the site. So far I’ve got the blog about 80% the way I want it. Here’s a quick preview:

site redesign - gray

New gray theme

Check again in a week or so and you should see some more progress.

In related news, the whole month of July has slipped by without so much as a peep from the blog… Don’t worry, I’ve been stockpiling news stories.  Hopefully they will be released before I have to go back to school!