Sep 20
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, …
Sep 18
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.
Sep 10
I made the horizontal lines by dripping the overglaze on the side while the pot was tipped. I’d made one like this before, but foolishly gave it away. Of course, now I have the pots and nothing to put in them. I think I’ll put cactus in them, or something else that does well with …
Sep 04
I took a couple of flameworking marathon sessions at the Mesa Arts Center, and I made more fish. These are borosilicate glass. Fish are easy to make and they look good no matter what color you use. I have enough of them now that I think I should make some sort of aquatic-themed chandelier.
Aug 27
You can definitely see the Mexican influences in this piece. I found the Mexican lottery cards at a store in San Diego, and knew I had to incorporate them in a shrine somehow. I tried to catch the cheerful + morbid feel of Dia de los Muertos. I was going to go so far as …
