Showing posts with label Pottery - Sunflowers (Deluxe). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pottery - Sunflowers (Deluxe). Show all posts
Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Developing a New Deluxe Sunflower Design

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Deluxe Sunflower Test  Basketweave Tip 48 One of my greatest challenges as an artist is keeping my work fresh, especially in terms of de...
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Friday, April 12, 2013

Garden Show at Midtown Gallery, Kalamazoo

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Finally got some pictures of my work on exhibit for the Garden Show at Midtown Gallery, at 356 So Kalamazoo Mall in Kalamazoo. The show is u...
Tuesday, February 26, 2013

New Glazes!

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As a potter, I am always on the hunt for new, unique glazes. I'm especially interested in finding rich, earth-tone glazes for my Delux...
Sunday, December 16, 2012

Deluxe Sunflower: Spider

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Many, many years ago - when I first started working with clay, I produced a huge series of masks which were featured in my first show a...
Sunday, December 2, 2012

Mini Sunflower (Original, Fancy, Deluxe): Comparing Clay Bodies

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Original Sunflowers (Titanium) (All images are: Top Left - Laguna Brown; Top Right - RO-23; Botom - Laguna Speckle Buff) Any artist ...
Saturday, November 24, 2012

Deluxe Sunflower: Spinning

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In developing the various designs in the Deluxe Sunflower series, I had been able to come up with quite a few designs using a slip-filled ...
Thursday, September 6, 2012

Deluxe Sunflower: Confetti

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Owing to my ongoing obsessiveness, when I find a tool that really works for me, I tend to investigate all of its available variations. I h...
Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Deluxe Sunflower: Ribbon

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Anyone who knows me will tell you: I definitely have my obsessive side. (OK, don't get all snarky on me; at least I admit it - freely!...
Friday, August 24, 2012

Deluxe Sunflower: Blossom

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The Blossom Deluxe Sunflower was also one of the first designs I came up with when I revisited these concepts after a long hiatus. I have ...
Friday, June 1, 2012

Deluxe Sunflowers: Starry Night

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When I started working on new ideas for my Deluxe Sunflowers - designs in which I added clay to the base of the center of the sunflower, I ...
Sunday, April 15, 2012

Deluxe Sunfllower - Seed

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My aesthetic as a potter is intimately connected to my vocation as a gardener and my interest in native plants and the environment at large....
Thursday, March 22, 2012

Deluxe Sunflower - Cake

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When I first started working with what I now refer to as my "Deluxe Sunflower" designs, I came up with three different designs - i...
Monday, February 13, 2012

Anniversary Sunflower

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I did a post last year about a series of Deluxe Sunflowers I did for a show at the Grosse Pointe Art Association's "Word Play"...
Friday, December 9, 2011

Deluxe Sunflower - Teddy Bear

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Gary Kohs and Laura Scaccia are two of the people who joined my family in 2010. Laura's sister had purchased one of my sunflowers at Pew...
Friday, August 19, 2011

Deluxe Sunflower - Pasta

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As a potter, certainly one of the driving forces of my creative process is my interest in texture.  If you work with clay, you know that, un...
Monday, August 1, 2011

Deluxe Sunflower - String Theory

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As a potter and gardener, I'm a pretty tactile person - my eyes and my hands are the most important sensory receptors I've got going...
Sunday, July 24, 2011

Deluxe Sunflower - Words

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As a member of the Grosse Pointe Art Association (GPAA), I occasionally take the opportunity to submit work for their various exhibits.  I...
Thursday, April 28, 2011

Deluxe Sunflower - Bubbles

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One of the bugs that bit me late last year was returning to some fancier sunflower designs I had tried some years ago with some success.  I ...
Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Whew!

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Yes, yes, I know: How long is it since you've heard from me? A really long time. It's been a pretty interesting year or so - so...