Booooo -- Flying Squirrel

From a recent real encounter with a flying squirrel..in the South Lake Tahoe area. 

Cloud and Mist work....

We live in such a pretty place...the water ways don't slant quite this much, and the marsh really doesn't have quite so tall grass, but my inside eye knows the beauty of what this came from...and I think the hills know I didn't mean to make them less majestic! 

Costume made out of Newspaper

Took newspaper folded at the half, cut stripes up to about 2" to the fold.  Sewed  newspaper near fold line on white lightweight cotton. Adjusted to fit wearer...put elastic at top, along with some straps to help keep it up.  Covered bodice with flat newspaper, sewed together for strength, width.  Newspaper half-sleeves.  Curl idea found on internet -- make cap from plastic bag/masking tap, stick on curled newspaper -- I couldn't get mine to curl with scissors, so wrapped strips around pen. Gave the wearer my mask from party a week ago.  Ta da ..girl with recycled gown with curly crown.

Latest Tile Table -- in glaze process

Laying out the pieces that have been bisque fired. Glaze process begins. 

Day of Dead Head/ Sugar Skull Piece and Mask

Yes, gave it a smile. About 7 minutes for the mask, 15 for headpiece. Well, not including procurement of supplies. Hot glue gun allows for all sorts of wanky positioning on things that one would think would not stay in place...yet for hot glue.  Some day may  hot glue and one of my digits  not connect on a project.

Took a 1" wide headband, put a 3" wide stripe of felt on it (slice  felt like a button hole in about 6 places so it could weave in and out of the headband...for stability. Hot glued the felt to band. Cut the flowers from their long stems...spread the hot glue on liberally, pressed the flowers on.  Finish off with tulle veil and long strand of kind of wild tiny pearls. Voila.   

Happy New House -- House Warming Wishes

Took a piece of wood from parents house older fence, decorated with ribbon on side, and a few other metal decoration on front.  Wrapped thin metal tin along the edges.

The wish was for "happy good house"  (as my parents house is/was) for my friend....and 12 years later, that is what his house has been.

Masque / Masks -- glitter, forms and spider!

Took a mask form, spread with glue, put sprinkle on the sequins. Hot glue a massive (fake) spider.

Second one here -- glue on outer edge, sprinkle sequins. Stick done similar method, hot glue of stick to mask form. 

Ceramic Goat

Goat-that-is-a-little-too-rounded-dog-sheep-like glazed relaxed on wood that is to be interesting dirt.

I made a ceramic dirt plane with some grass, but feels to cold somehow...plus, the first round of glaze on it was u-g-l-y. It is ready to go with another, but the ceramic on ceramic didn't feel as the goat on dirt felt in real life -- the wood it getting me there a bit better. I like his hay in photograph, but think too corny on the wood. Final yet to come perhaps. 

A bit abstract

One of those side-of -road-dusty-small- towns with ag fields around. Added solar panels because I didn't want the above ground poles going in front of it...had seen some solar panels in town up north...looked a bit incongruent with the "old town" atmosphere, but things change. This here was taken from an abstract already, so not my image, but my kind-of copy of image. Now I need to do my own.

More Tile Table ..Rostam...Cutting Background same time as Figures

Ok, was discussing this project with someone who said it should work to cut the background out figures at same time.  I was concerned that my shrinkage would be different and that I wouldn't be able to spread to dry (so I was going to kind of mosaic with small tiles the background). In a way, it is easier to cut the figures and background out at same time because some of the background shapes are tricky.  But, I still wonder if it will work...so narrow in places and if the shrinkage doesn't happen at same rate everywhere, I am liable to have a horse hoof not fit into the groove. 

The above is one tile piece (with the dog type thing and horse tail in corner another). I removed the figures to clean them up....the cutting process made some less then smooth edges. And yes, I do expect something will break in the drying process or transport to kiln. 

The Newbie has too many Canvas Already

These are on their sides to make them even more abstract than the painted attempt...yes, mainly to camouflage them versus the straight-on perspective.  I have now 4 painted canvases, and see a future project comprised of epic fails....a skewered stack?  We shall see she says.