This card traditionally shows a girl holding or wresting a lion, but I decided to use a tiger, just to be different. I’m sorry about how the photo turned out. It’s too glossy and too warm. Am considering using better photo-editing software, but I detest the learning curve.
Category: Pottery
Apr 24
The Fool
This is one of the most well-known tarot cards. Our local bookstore uses it as their logo. I made the sky pink for two reasons. One, because I thought it would look like dawn (it doesn’t) and two, because I was running out of shades of light blue and didn’t want them to all look …
Apr 22
Celadon Bird Cup
To make the surface decoration on this cup, I trailed slip made out of the same clay body. It came in handy that I had drawn several flocks of birds in my comic, coopdegrace.com, because I could draw them again without a reference. This cup, alas, is unuseable, because it has a longitudinal crack inside. …
Feb 12
Fountain
I originally made the base of this as a drum for my husband. I made two, actually, but this one had too-shallow of a shape, so he said he wasn’t going to use it. I decided, that since I’ve been planning to make a fountain for a while, that I would use this to make …
Jan 24
Raku Woman
This is a piece I did in high school. It’s raku fired, which accounts for the carbon trappings. The piece is merely a cylinder of clay, altered to make it interesting, with a loop like a handle on top. I really love this piece, and tried to duplicate it in 2003 without much success. I …