Filed under: Art Tag, ceramic art, Mixed Media Paintings, My Artwork, pottery, wall plaques | Tags: art tag, ceramic sculpture, mixed media artwork, patterns, quilts
Here’s a snapshot of my latest Art Tag piece, which I’m calling Patterns III: Some Patterns Need to be Broken. It’s a mixed media piece using my ceramic quilt mounted on an old recycled wooden tray. (To see it larger, click on the image.)
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I was disappointed to find that my ceramic quilt had cracked when it was fired. However I am now determined to use it in a mixed media piece for the Art Tag series on Patterns - when that’s done I will post a photo here. Stay tuned!
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my sampler quilt all glazed & ready for the kiln
I finished glazing the bisque-fired ceramic “quilt” yesterday; now it’s waiting to be high-fired. The colors will all be different after that, as will the surface textures! Many hours of work went into the decoration of this piece; I hope it turns out well.
I have decided that it will be the 3rd in my series about Patterns, so I’ll be showing it to the Art Tag group when we have our meeting in SF this coming Sunday. No time to do anything over – whatever it is, that’s what it will be .
Filed under: My Artwork, pottery, Altered Books, ceramic art, wall plaques | Tags: ceramic sculpture, wall sculpture, altered books, pottery, quilts, Majolica glazes, patterns
- 2 pages of an altered book for my art group’s round robin
The left page of the altered book shown above is my doing. It’s one of the books my women’s art group is currently passing around in a round-robin project. Several of the words on that page were compounds beginning with fire.
Filed under: Art Tag, ceramic art, My Artwork, wall plaques | Tags: art tag, ceramic sculpture, pottery, quilts, relief sculpture, sculpture, wall sculpture
On the last day of last year I started a new ceramic project: a small ”quilt” made of clay. I wanted to try out something from an article I downloaded from the Ceramic Arts Daily website, which had quite good instructions about how to construct it. As you can see, I used all sorts of different textures & patterns, and I plan to experiment with various glazes, underglazes, etc, making it a sampler of sorts. I’m not sure yet, but it may become my 3rd Art Tag piece in the series about Patterns. The snapshot shown here is of the piece when it’s still damp clay, of course. When finished it will be a plaque which can be hung on a wall (if it turns out well), and I may make some more along the same lines - stay tuned!
this ceramic "Quilt" is about 11 " square
Best wishes for the new year to one & all – hope you find the time to make art in 2012!
I’ve been busy – here I am at my Open Studio a few days ago. There’ve been a lot of nice people coming though, however sales haven’t been as good as we’d like. But we’re there for the duration! One more weekend, plus one of us (my studio-mate or I) will be there every afternoon from at least 1 to 4 during the last week before Christmas!
Filed under: Art Tag, mobiles, My Artwork | Tags: art tag, mobiles, my srtwork, patterns, shrink sheets, shrinky-dinks
A couple of days ago I sent off my first art piece in the current Art Tag series dealing our current theme, Patterns. It’s a hanging mobile I put together of hard plastic pieces that I made with that Shinky-Dink material, connected with colored wire. Each of the round-ish pieces has words related to the topic on one side and a visual pattern on the other; both sides shown above. It was a fun project to do; the next thing I make for Art Tag will be totally different, though! Stay tuned..
Filed under: ceramic art, Goddesses, My Artwork, Raku, wall plaques | Tags: ceramic sculpture, Goddess, goddess sculpture, goddesses, raku, relief sculpture, Venus
Venus - raku-fired version [1
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Here’s my latest ceramic Frida plaque, on which I’ve used various underglazes and glazes .. it’s all a learning process. Now I’m going over to the ceramics studio to see some other things which have just come out of the kiln. Stay tuned!
Filed under: Buddha images, ceramic art, My Artwork, pottery, Raku, sculpture | Tags: buddha images, Buddha plaques, ceramic sculpture, raku, relief sculpture, sculpture
We were completely socked in yesterday and there was drizzle or mist coming down off and on all day. It was warm and humid and actually quite enjoyable to be out in – and fortunately the wet weather didn’t affect our weekly raku firing!
There were 4 of us firing things and we had so many pieces that we had to do two loads. However the second firing took much less time than the first, since the kiln was already quite warm. This time we all took our pieces out of the cans with the burned paper in them after only 20 to 40 minutes. It’s very exciting, seeing what magic the heat and the ashes have wrought! My favorite piece from this firing is the Buddha plaque shown above. I am learning as I go and having fun..
