Scuptural vase

Here are 2 views of a thrown and altered stoneware vase form.

Creative coil vase

I had a little playful fun stacking and interlocking coils on this vase. The form suggests a human torso and the glazes are layered with some areas sponged to highlight crevasses.

Christmas Kiln opening

Of the half dozen pieces in this wabi-sabi series I like this one the best. After its 3rd firing this bud vase is complete:)

Watercolor into the mache

For this winter reveler slippping on the ice I am using watercolors to add color.

Paper Mache

This is a paper mache Jesus on the cross. It's at the moment when he cries out to his father "why have you forsaken me?".

Time to get back at it!!

Well....it's been a summer and fall since my last post. I have made many pieces since, have boxes and boxes of bisqueware. I also have been working on pitfired pots with watercolors to incorporate imagery into the smoke marked surface. I am liking the results. Since I'm am teaching basic 3-D art classes, I have been working in other materials to make examples. Cardboard relief, paper sculpture, paper mache, firebrick-apple-and soap carving!!!!

I have found my lost love of mache again and am finding that it is lending itself to the characters in my drawings. I might continue to spend more time with this media to see where it takes me.

However, with the change of semester coming up I will be teaching more clay classes again and be able to streamline my clay focus. It's time for perfecting glazes to put on the small army of bisqueware that awaits.