Dec 10
My friend Gabrielle brought a magazine into our pottery class with an interesting technique in which the potter painted flowers on white slip using different hues of tinted slips. I decided to try it out. Since we had a myriad of greens, the obvious choice for subject matter was botanical.
Sep 06
These are the seedpods and buds that I made for my tile mosaic project. To make the seedpods, I rolled out a cone and indented it to show where the inner seed capsules had dried and shrunk in on themselves. then I added a disk at the top, incised with lines to look like the …
Sep 03
These are the stems of the poppies I made for my number plaque tile mosiac project. They aren’t very interesting, but they are necessary. I made them by extruding clay through a clay gun using the triple-circle die. I made more than I needed, because I’m not sure what shapes and sizes I’m going to …
Aug 28
I have a plan to make a number plaque, and I wanted it to be more than just functional, I want it to be beautiful. I decided upon poppies as an appropriate botanical motif. I sketched it out, and my design will fit about five poppy flowers on it. These are the tiles I made. …
Jun 05
This would have, should have been my favorite book cover. I started by stamping gesso designs onto muslin, and then using a wash of buff paint to bring out the details. Since the background was so plain, I went to my old files and found a photograph I had taken last year of my yard …
