Did I ever post the finished Lascaux (& etc) horses here?!
This first batch of them will be available in my next shop update, but there are more getting bisque-fired tomorrow that should be going into the shop in mid-April alongside a couple more cave painting mugs :)
[image descriptions: a simple brown and cream stoneware rabbit with stylized features. The rabbit has warm brown underglaze on its whole body except its head, chest, inner ears, and tail, which are creamy clay. The rabbit's eyes and heart-shaped nose are also brown. Each haunch has a big spiral on it; each ear has a line of three dots.]
A mug I named Hembygd (meaning hometown, sorta).
Every little shape is stamped separately, as you can see in another video previously posted.
A process I enjoy, and I have made new stamps in the summer, so at som point there must be new types of mugs like these!
As always there's a million things on the want-to-do list xD
But what do you think, more of these?
I thought it would be fun to make a ceramic paint palette using the slab technique, but I also wanted to give it my own spin. Since I have been working on incorporating animals into my designs, I made a fish with the scales being the paint wells. I also wanted to section a part for holding brushes, since I often have the problem with finding a place for them while painting. This piece is a prototype, for me to feel out how to make a palette, gauge thicknesses, drying techniques and glazes.
I chose the Botz Speckle Cream 9886 stoneware glaze since I had used it on other pieces and liked the iron speckle effect. Fired to 1250C. It gives the fish a grilled look and also repels any colour stains. I’ve been using it to mix underglazes for my other pieces and it looks new and unused after I wash it each time. All in all, a successful prototype, and I’m looking forward to making more animal palettes in the future!
I painted a series of seascapes during my summer in Cornwall, and used them for this photo shoot. They are really quite small, and I enjoyed the reduced pressure in painting due to that and my general lack of experience with painting 🌝 If you struggle with 2-D media like me, I highly recommend starting small! I have a graveyard of unfinished canvases stashed in the storage now..
There was a little volunteer maple tree sapling in our front yard that we had to remove due to potential interference with the sidewalk. It made us super sad, so we saved some leaves to preserve in clay. So in addition to my usual seasonal grape leaf flatware pieces(which I haven't started yet oops), I'm making some maple leaf pieces as well! Also there's a mountain ash plate because I had extra space on a slab.
Also! A certain little pigeon seems to have taken an interest in clay! Gaze upon his beautiful artwork which he added to the bottom of one of my bowls while I wasn't looking. I had to give him a chunk to play with or risk more bird art on the rest of my work lol. I might fire some of his stuff, just cuz aww.
Ummmm sooooo I did some Lascaux-inspired mugs and I love them...........maybe TOO much? Even just in bisque-fired unfinished form?!!?!?? The possibility that one of these will live with me forever? Is HIGH?
There are three of them* & every single one is my precious perfect bébé!!!?!?!
(I had the good fortune of visiting Lascaux & seeing the beautiful interpretative recreation of the cave paintings when I was 10 and YES they have stuck with me and also YES I did, not long after that, also read Clan Of the Cave Bear at an Impressionable Age!!!!)
image descriptions: a black ceramic rabbit with pink antlers and a white, eyeless face. Sharp triangle and spiral designs coil over it. The pink covering of its antlers is cracked; the same cracked pink pigment forms a mask over where the rabbit's eyes should be.
This one's made of white stoneware with blue pigment. Curious how it will turn out. I'm thinking of it as a buddy/compliment of this finished one below, but it will be lighter (not sure by how much since I added clay in quantity "???🤷♀️")