Classic

This is a prototype that I tried last year. I love vintage tattoos. And I love the idea of a three dimensional piece that can be put on a wall. This piece is hollow and can be hung from a flat nail. As I mentioned, it's just a test piece. I haven't done anything with it yet. More than likely, if I do, I'll make a more refined version of it as part of a series of three dimensional ceramic tattoo sculptures.

Last Siren

I personally like these sirens. I love the round forms and the matte texture of the glazes and classical features. This piece has been on etsy for a while and no one seems to be at all interested in it. I wish I knew why.

Cat Walk

Cat Walk as in Gang Plank. Art is funny. Sometimes you are on top of the world, and sometimes you feel like you are out on a limb or a plank over shark infested waters.

This is a small piece that I donated to Blue Line Arts in Roseville, California, for a fundraiser called Lottery for the Arts. Apparently it sold right away, which is great. I wish it were so simple with Etsy!

Three-In-One

This is an example of a little ceramic painting experiment I've been trying. The image above is what it looks like if viewed from the front. A little more abstract. Below are both sides if viewed from either the right or the left. My intention is to, I hope, get a viewer to look more closely at the work, have them work a little to see what they are looking at. And, for someone who's interested in buying this piece, it's kind of a "three-fer": three paintings in one: abstract, dragon and pirate.

Don't think of an elephant

A very long time ago, when my son was toddling, he loved it when I made him little "balloons" out of play-doh. He loved to squish them to hear them pop. Back then they were little hollow play-doh blobs, and later, when I took my first clay class, I remembered those little balloons and used that technique to make my first kiln fired ceramic pieces.

When you're first starting out with anything you make little mistakes. Sometimes those mistakes turn out to be something fun. For instance, this little elephant I made early on rattled when it was shaken. Someone in the ceramics class suggested the noise meant it wasn't perfect because a piece had broken loose inside.

I decided I liked that noise and so purposely started making all of my work with a loose piece of clay inside to rattle around. It wasn't long before I started making tiny bisqued hearts to put inside each one of my sculptures and that's what you'll hear rattling around inside just about every artaed figure.

This post's etsy game is this: What is it an elephant never does? Convo me from the etsy site and I'll create a coupon for free shipping on your next artaed etsy purchase!

Old and New

I'm working on a couple of new ideas, once again. Sometimes it feels like my hands cannot keep up with all the detritus that floats through my mind. OK, not just sometimes, but usually. My old ideas at times seem to resent the new ones, as illustrated above.

Before (as opposed to after) and coupon!

A very quick blog post to show a few new items patiently waiting in the kiln to be bisqued fired. If you have made the journey from my etsy store (www.etsy.com/shop/artaed), these are some new ideas I've been percolating. If anyone wants to hazard a guess as to what they are, I will gift you a $10 coupon on etsy toward your next artaed purchase! Just convo me at my etsy store. See photo below...and happy wondering!