Thursday, April 30, 2015

New Work! Part Three of Three


And here's the rest of the work! Pretty happy with how it all turned out and it feels great to be producing again - there are some ornaments that I had in the firing as well but I didn't photograph those.  There were also some more fox figurines and a sheep.  Lots of work!  A bunch of it is going to The Dart Gallery in Dartmouth on Friday May 1st.  Here are links to the other two posts:
New Work - Part One
New Work - Part Two

More Rabbits!  This big rabbit bowl is the biggest animal bowl I've ever made! And there is a small and larger figurine in the same glaze.
Big Rabbit Bowl, front view



A big horse!


....with a 'normal' size figurine for scale

black and white cat figurine

black bear figurine

"large" rabbit figurine with the same small one as in the photo with the bowl.

Brown and white dog figurine

Owl Figurine

Buffalo Figurine

Doberman Figurine



Skunk Figurine

Sled dog figurine

sssssnake in the grass

Wall hanging small peace dove

Fish figurine with hearts

Rooster figurine

Large Beaver figurine with small one for scale

Large beaver figurine, side view

Another 'large' fox figurine, the one on the right.

Rat figurine

I'm so excited about this, it was inspired by a piece of silk I bought in Taiwan with dragons and phoenixs all over it, or I suppose the bird might be "Garuda".  The clouds are also stoneware and I'm planning on gluing all the pieces to a board (not this board, and maybe a rectangle), painting the background blue and calling it "polarity".  I have a lot of other ideas for wall hanging pieces about contrast inspired by the Yin Yang symbol. 

Two more polar bear figurines

A larger standing fox bowl than the one in the last post

I finally fired the 2 doves I made with the serenity prayer on them,  I posted about making these back in Dec 2013.  Well! A lot has happened since then! It's all good.  Up with serenity.

And finally I had to laugh at the irony that this "serenity dove" was fine when it came out of the bisque firing, but came out of the glaze firing with a cracked wing.  I guess it's a sign that I need to keep it!



New Work! Part Two

Here are the rest of the pics from the glaze firing I unloaded yesterday, and there will be one more post yet with what comes out of the kiln cooling down now!

Polar bears, one of the larger figurines from yesterday's pic along with a second one, bear bowl, figurine

Beaver bowl

Beaver bowl top view

Beaver figurines

Bighorn Sheep figurine

Black rabbit figurine

Bobcat - glaze didn't turned out as tawny as I'd hoped, oops, should have tested it first

Two buffalo figurines and a "bowlfalo"

Calico Cat figurine

Chickadee figurines

Deer figurine

Elephant figurines

Fox bowl - side view

group pic of fox stuff with that black rabbit

Fox figurines

Grey and white cat figurine

Mallard Duck Bowl

Mountain Goat Bowl

Mountain Goat Figurine

Mountain Goat Figurine and Bowl

"Nutmeg Glaze" Rabbit bowl

Same bowl as above, side view

Pileated Woodpecker figurines

Rabbit figurine group shot, two of these have been in other pics

Suffolk Sheep figurines

Shih Tzu Figurine

Snowy Owl Figurine
Snowy Owl Figurines, group shot - the 2 small ones are quite small, one is 'average' size and one is larger