Friday, May 17, 2013

Wow where does the time go?

I can't believe it has nearly been two months since the last post! We stayed a few more days in the US visiting San Juan Island and then meeting up with Frances and Duncan in Bellingham. We came home and spent a week furiously packing and getting ready to move house, but first I went back to work and our little Lexi started at nursery. Above is her first artwork - completed with a paintbrush, not bad for 6months old! So now we have been in the new house for a month, there has been so much change - painting, painting and painting and some new flooring and lately some new curtains. This is making us all happy as the house no longer smells of smoke from the previous owners and is a light and bright place! A bit more to do inside but the garden is not so pretty - but I think the redesigning and extensive digging may have to wait til next year!

In other news - the kiln now has a lovely clean bit of concrete to sit on in the garage and I hope to fire it up soon. Particularly as I have applied for some craft fairs later in the year and that my head is brimming with ideas........porcelain chromosomes.......ginko leaves.......and other things and bobbing about up there!

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Sunday, March 10, 2013

Fishy transfers 2

The fishy transfers arrived yesterday and I had the kiln on today - looking good!







Friday, February 08, 2013

BEC

Today on out walk Lexi and I cut through the Brandwood End Cemetery. I can't believe how big it is, it took a good 10min to cross. There is some very interesting redbrick architecture, though its quietly crumbling to dust as I think everything has been moved to the new cemetery at Kings Norton. I have also discovered there's a friends of Brandwood End Cemetery website - http://fbec.org.uk/! May be some restoration will happen?



Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Fishy transfers

I've been trying out some new multicoloured transfers from foto ceramic to see what will work best on the different blues for the portholes I've been making - very please with the results!

Sunday, January 20, 2013

Deep sea


Yesterday Nick took charge of Lexi for a few hours and I got on with a little making and creating. First up I added some black colour and cobalt carbonate to some porcelain to try and make a blue-black clay - it looks grey above but hopefully on firing it'll change! So what is it? - its a porthole. Inspired by one of my favourite books 'Mapping the deep' by Robert Kunzig I thought I'd make some 'views' out of a submersible - with jellies (like the one below) and funky looking fish glimpsed. The fish are definitely inspired by a book I picked up in New Orleans French Quarter last Christmas....its taken a little while but there you go! Now to think on how to get the jellies/fish into the portholes, not sure you can get white transfers, may be I need to use pale yellow/turquoise - watch this space!

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