Saturday, June 25, 2011

Family Plates


Swimming in Wolf Creek


Klinker Pup


Grandpa's Pickup


Playing Dress-up

These are some of the plates I made this week. Now they need to be fired and glazed.
Summer on Grandma's farm in Texas was the best!

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Sombrero Sisters


Sombreros Plate

This is the finished plate.

Brother and Sister Plate


Brother and Sister plate

This plate features my Grandmother Thelma, her brother and sister, mother and Grandmother.

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

The Raven


The Raven tile

This is a stoneware tile I just listed in my Etsy shop.

Saturday, June 18, 2011

Cups and Vases


Crow cups


Crow cups

These are some new crow cups that came out of the kiln today.


Grandma's House - Jane


Grandma's House - Janis


Grandma's Garden

Grandma's House is a vase that has a portrait of me on one side and my sister Jane on the other.
Grandma's Garden has a portrait of me and my brother with a basket of vegetables from the garden. These are still in progress. We loved spending the summers on our Grandparent's farm.

Friday, June 17, 2011

Crow Plate


Five crows

Another crow plate - another murder!

Thursday, June 16, 2011

Crow Cups


Little crow cups


Crow cups

I hand-built these cups from porcelain. They have black crows with red interiors.

Sunday, June 12, 2011

Sombreros


Sombreros on sisters

This is a platter with a drawing of my Grandmother and Great-aunt when they were teenage girls. It's white stoneware with black underglaze.

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Ship


Ship

This is Sir Walter Raleigh's ship on a plate of white stoneware.

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Crow Plate


Crow plate

I've started a series of crow plates. They are about 18 inches wide and made of white stoneware with black underglaze. They are finished with a glossy clear glaze.


Murder of Crows

This is a plate in progress.

Monday, June 6, 2011

Sideshow

I've started a series of cups with a circus sideshow theme. The designs are based on vintage freak-show banners. These are white stoneware with black underglaze ready to be bisque fired.


Sideshow cups


Snake charmer


Tattooed lady


Three legged chicken and Alligator girl

I also did the bearded lady and the fat lady. I'll post more when they are glazed.

Sunday, June 5, 2011

Clay


Starling tile


Chickadee tile


Batgirl tile

I've started working with clay again and it feels great!