Gingers 2021

    

 Been doing jumbo gingers with the kids for 10+ years now.  Now, as they age, think it is the kids that are humoring me by making them. The youngest one went for simple this year -- imitating a character, rather than trying to put on gobs of candy.  

This year, adults played along too...with the kids' parents each taking one half of one...ahem...one looking particularly candy loaded.

 

   

Boar-ing...Ceramics

 

I made this one free-standing -- not a "creature that hangs."   He still isn't as fat as I wanted, but maybe the distress look is because a bit hungry.  Next time will make separate columns for the legs...I had started it out as a hanging, but then shifted when found it stable enough....might end up with rod from below into a base to make more secure. When fired at higher temperature, body should have little flecks show up on brown/tan. 

Boar -- Clay

Trying a clay that is new to me. The bottle is there for support, not to eat. 

Another creature to hang. 

 

Partial Eclipse

  

From Mia. above.  My shot below was earlier in the evening -- looked like an eye to me. 

 

Pressed Circles -- found on walk

Collected these little circles on a less travelled trail, and placed them on the rock above.

Seems like maybe the tip of a walking stick put into the clay of the area there...intentionally -- too many to have it be a random thing. Maybe making themselves a set of checkers?  The trail was an offshoot of the main trail, so, likely why so many still around, not yet pulverized back into the ground. Pretty day as well. 

 

In work: Two more clay pieces that hang

 

Will be holding a spear. Subconsciously inspired by Trilogy of Terror -- the "warrior doll" that came alive and used a knife to slash under the kitchen door ...among other scary pranks.  Karen Black...who tried to incinerate the doll in the oven as I recall, eventually got further entwined with the doll, but it was the "under the door" knife yielding that scared me quite a lot ..in a kind of funny, kind of not...when I saw it years ago.   Just looked it up, and this guy doesn't look like the one from the film, but the knife/spear thing was the thing that stuck in mind...all these years! Uga.

Ok...a silly saccharine one here below..  Both in drying phase, with a bit more clean up to come. 

Both take off from prior experimenting  -- the guy with spear was done as a flat by me prior,

and the ice cream fan was done as a small sculpture in clay.  This series of hanging pieces is to give some 3D play to walls. 

Second creature that hangs

About 12" tall. Bisque stage.  I don't want it to get shiny, so contemplating glaze step.