Grown Together

Grown Together

Suggestive abstract work draws  on  realistic painitings to express feelings and moods about life . Grown Together could mean the tightness of a family, the strength of woking together or the branching out as single parts become individual idenities.

Selective Vision

The "viewer" is important to the maker of the art especially with abstract painting which many people have  difficulty enjoying.  I had some difficulty finding a title, tried Bulwark (Wall)  pretty boring, but titles open ideas to begin to understand abstract paintings.  At the opening on First Friday at Blue Whole people made some great suggestions.   I liked Selective Vision which encourages the viewer to find his own vision.

SELECTIVE VISION

COUPLES

KLIMT'S KISS

 Figures  have become a special pleasure, recognizable in the work of may artists.  There are so many express to work with  -greetings, love, friendship, condolences understanding,etc,  etc..

In past posts of Lady Sara and the other Ladies that idea started the thoughts about the couples .  What a great open door  to expressions in clay

MATCH  DOT CALM

JUST MET  

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First Friday at Blue Whole Art Gallery

      The front windows are a huge project for the Featured Artist, not just getting new things painted or pottery completed but setting  up the display and creating all the title  tags and the  inventory responsibilities.  BWG does an amazing job of advertising in local papers and with the Blue Whole Blog and email.  A BIG  thank you to all my friends at BWG. 

New Watercolor and Rose Lady

Shy By One of a Dozen

11 Birds

This figure has 11 birds attached on metal pins.

   

Watching the Birds

 Each figure  has her own personality.  They are made in several parts so they can be shipped or reassembled.  

It's Going to Rain

It's Going to Rain
   This figure is13 inches tall, stoneware glazed with
 my art nouveau glaze.  It is suitable to be show inside or out .

Filling the Kiln

I still like making the dragonfly square vases and carved pots,each one has its own character and they have been popular at the galleries.



I had requests for frog pots so finally sculpted a
small frog and made a  rough press mold  so
 the piece could be repeated. I add legs to some but don't worry about details as the glaze usually hides small details.  This is the  first square vase with frogs.

The kiln isn't quite full, frog square will just fit on top of a dragon fly square .  I hope the wall piece with ladies will not crack, it is also press molded.  Stoneware doesn't lent itself to slip pouring.

 As I make things they have to rest in the kiln to dry.

Shino Glaze Combinations

      designs.

 Golden shino glaze works well over plum, just enough flow to add a moss like texture for the fern like trees.

Alone it varies from speckled tan with creamy off white and allows the red to show on the pine cones.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, May your new year be healthy happy and full of the best things.

Open Studio Sale

  I haven't had Open Studio Days, even though I bought the signs and planned to do so because the Studio is always in use and usually messy. It's the usual "work in progress" which is also a chance to ask how things are make and see new things.   

  

claythingsplus by Carol Janda: GARDEN SCULPTURE

claythingsplus by Carol Janda: GARDEN SCULPTURE

GARDEN SCULPTURE

30 inches tall stoneware garden sculpture  with my Art Nouveau Glaze  

graces my daughter's garden.  

Steeple Rock-Hurricane Ridge ONP

Watercolor Framed 16x20

Sometimes it is fun  to be very particular about a scene, sort of enjoying it in depth, studying  all its detail, trying to travel with the eye where the legs can't carry me.  Actually I think that's why I enjoy painting so much, it is like meditating on  a place, really seeing it. If I were a bird I would fly from top to top of these spectacular mountains.
      The road, wrapped abound the last turn before the top of  this birds eye, feels like the thinner air and the sense of  mountain majesty
that makes Olympic National Park such a  treasure.

New Glaze Shino Cone 6

 Learning about the behavior of Shino Gold
 over Plum glaze  is exciting .  It seems to be
 a stable glaze which isn't running
off the pot but does a modest melting
slide which brings out the texture.
    Wax resist and stencil design
 held their own with nice soft edges.

Some New Stoneware

This firing added some new work using my art nouveau  glaze
 with  17% copper carb as apposed to 20%  which seems
  a little paler and may have slightly less texture.
The geranium leaf press mold  connected by clay coils
 and pebbles provides more changes in depth for glaze
 to  increases the texture.
  The treatment of the foot is practical and enhances the vase.

Leaf Dish

I put a ruler by this to show its size, "Quality Paint" is my art nouveau glaze which 

has such wonderful texture  at cone 6 and it is "guaranteed" :)

Gardening all year Round

Shot weed  keeps me gardening all year long
 the first signs of the round little devils
 coming up in January. 

The Wall Flowers will reward me                             
when they start to bloom in February.  
I planted them from seed along the side walk where
they get warmth and full sun.  As they bloom 
out cutting them back seems to help. The plants have 
survived for three years and produce a lot of seed.
I find babies here and there so maybe the birds like them too.

This spring there are changes  in color and stripes in some new plants.




                                                                                                                                                                                         

I Love Watercolors

 It is like coming home to my self when I get back to painting  watercolors, especially seascapes and landscapes. Visiting a place I've enjoyed to recapture the pleasure of that day using sketches and photos.

 Last Light at Ruby Beach was accepted to the Sequim Arts Show 

Playing in the surf  seems to be the favorite children. 

 As a painting it challenged me to get the glitter of the surf on the beach.