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!

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.

The Raven

The Raven tile

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

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.

Crow Plate

Five crows

Another crow plate - another murder!

Crow Cups

Little crow cups


Crow cups

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

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.

Ship

Ship

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

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.

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.

Clay

Starling tile


Chickadee tile


Batgirl tile

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