Delft Influence Wont Go Away

The painting of the Delft tile mural left me with a residual desire to keep drawing the fantastical and decorative flowers and birds I had put on the tiles... So I did a few large platter pieces, that seemed to be good places to work this thing out.








The backs of the platters have my more typical pattern work for backs of things... whilst the flowers on the fronts aren't so different from the stylised floral work I often put on pottery, anyhow.

Blue Tile Mural- "Delft" Style

Tiles are so difficult to photograph. These are no exception.

The tiles are installed in a shower bath area.





Here they are on my work table, before firing and after firing.

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 Finished

Here is the final pillow in this project, the crab. And the stripe fabric is for the rope piping. It will be cut into 4 narrower strips for that.


I also did some more work on the turtle and the seahorse today, depening the shadows, especially on the seahorse, which was looking a bit flat.




And here is the crab. He is a fine fellow. Or lady.

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.

Painted Upholstry On Painted CAhir

Some bright colours here- not for the faint hearted!!
I painted the striped fabric, and made the welting to cover the join of wood and fabric.





And its a very comfortable chair too!