Here are some highlights from the new pottery. These items are already listed at my ETSY shop.
This week I am hard at work, to fill the kiln one more time, before I have to put my ceramic work away, and begin some other painting projects for January.

Seashore Pillows Made up

Here they are!

Small Pond Floorcloth

Its a small pond on a small floorcloth!





Nevertheless, it turned out very nicely indeed, and will make a fine addition to the kitchen whence it is destined.

Seashore Pillows

This is what I am working on now. Four pillows depicting sea shore animals, some on land some from the water, and some that go back and forth! The fourth one, not finished
yet, and not shown here, is a crab.
The backs are stripped fabric, and there will be a fat, fabric covered piping around each one.































The pillows are commissioned based on a group of pillows I did some years ago. Its sort of hard, and then sort of easier to match previous work...in some ways, the new ones are much better. I like to think my skills improve...but the originals were very good too. Not requested this time around are the gull, the hogfish (wrass) and the view of the birds' feet on the sand. Have you ever seen how seabirds often stand on their own feet, and have trouble getting going walking from that pose? Pretty funny.

More Pillow Project Pictures

A couple of weeks ago I finished painting the pillow fabric I started in the previous post.
Time does fly. You can click on many of these images to see them bigger.

This was a tremedously fun project, since I LOVE colour (SURPRISE?)... and I was sad when these were completed...

The client really enjoys bright colour, painterly effects and a loose approach- my cup of tea precisely.

I didnt get really good pictures of the backs: basically stripes in good colours for the fronts.... later, when I photograph the pillows, made up, I can show the backs better.

But there certainly are plently of good shots of the fronts!