Spodumene Flowerpot 2

Here’s another wax-resist design, this one loosely based off a design I saw on Japanese pots.

Glass Bottles

I did better at making these when I was taking the borosilicate class in February. Somehow I forgot most of what I learned in four months. Some of them are rather amorphous.

Sparrow Collage

The black-and-brown woodcut pattern is from wrapping paper from my favorite stationary store in Prescott.  I did the outline of the leaf by gessoing over a pressed watermelon leaf.  The sparrow linocut I did myself. In addition to learning about what looks good and what doesn’t, I’ve had to learn how to photograph 2-D pieces. …

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Songbird collage

I’ve been trying my hand at collage lately.  I’m so impressed by the beauty of a lot of the collage artists I’ve seen, impressed enough that I want to duplicate everything I see.  This is my first time using gesso for anything other than priming a canvas.  I saw the technique in Cloth Paper Scissors, …

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Spodumene Flowerpot 1

The design was made by painting wax resist before dipping the pot in glaze.  It’s a technique I’ve used frequently at the Empty Bowls bowlmaking-sessions.