May 06
This one had something weird happen with the glaze that makes it look diseased. It has thin bubbles that break when you touch them, leaving ridges that cut like obsidian. If it had been a functional piece, I would have had to get rid of it, but as garden art it works fine.
Apr 30
For this piece, I also began with a gesso resist under a wash of acrylic, using a rubber stamp of a pear. You can still barely see the imprint of the pear just under the crow’s shoulder. After pasting on scraps of greenish textured paper and repeating washes of red-iron-oxide colored paint, I decided it …
Apr 21
I started out with the gesso resist. I used a greenish wash in the background, with a Victorian bookplate design stamp providing the resist. Since I almost always stick to blue+orange as my color theme, I decided to vary it and go with a sage green+red iron oxide color theme. I did a wash of …
Apr 14
I’m going to use pictures of my smiley balls as filler when I don’t have another 48 birds or other 2D art to share. They’re high fired, hand built spheres, and I made ten of them. They are in the garden now, making me smile whenever I see them. I think I would like to …
