Category: alternart

Mosaic Terra Cotta Pot

I’ve had this terra cotta pot under my studio table for just about a year, waiting for the project I wanted to do with it.  Finally, I decided that I needed a pot for some succulents, so now was the time. I started by coming up with a short phrase to put around the lip. …

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Ceramic Ball

This looks a lot like a smiley ball without a face, doesn’t it?  I wanted to do something as close to a sphere as I could manage, just because it’s pretty easy and it’s sometimes nice to have a heavy ball to roll around in your hands. I coated it with red iron oxide (as …

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Freaky Rabbit Sculpture

In the pottery studio, there used to be a postcard with a photo of this really cool freaky hare sculpture.  Naturally, when I went looking for it to use as a reference, it had mysteriously vanished.  I did this anyway, and I’m pretty happy with how it turned out. I wanted that weird blobby texture …

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Magnet Set 5

One of the nice things about this project is that it rewards hoarders. I kept the little fimo orange slices from a (still unfinished) project I was working on last year. Every time I make these magnets, I make them in a batch of 28, because that’s how much resin my measuring cups will hold. …

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Magnet Set 4

I used to use scraps from my little books for the background paper in these, but the scrapbook papers commonly available are just as nice. You can’t see them perfectly well anyway. The one at the top with the orange flowers is one of my favorites.