Oct 08
I had planned to do a whole series of these tiles, based on the tarot. I love tarot symbolism and imagery. I spent a lot of time pounding out the clay into flat slabs, cutting it to size, and then (hardest of all) trailing stained slip freehand from a bottle. I tried to fire them …
Oct 06
Here’s another collage in the series I did. When I decided that the first one needed help, I set about cutting linoblocks. I’ve cut three so far, all of birds, and I have three others that need to be cut. No problem collaging on the slightly rough gessoed surface, so that’s good. I’ve gotten more …
Oct 01
Here’s another wax-resist design, this one loosely based off a design I saw on Japanese pots.
Sep 28
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.
Sep 26
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. …
