Here is a round vase with cactus cut-outs. I did the cacti with white textured flat glaze, then I painted on various colors of transparent underglaze over that. I painted the outside with a textured, glittery non-firing paint made for ceramics (though it can be used on a variety of things).
Here's a large zebra pillow vase. I painted the stripes and detailing on the cut out zebras in transparent underglazes. The cut-outs are outlined in white gold.
One more for tonight. Will post more tomorrow night.
A large orca pillow vase. The orcas are painted with transparent underglazes with clear glaze over them. The bottom part is done in a speckled glaze, and the orcas on the bottom are cut out of clay and fired separately then glued on after firing. All the cut-outs are outlined in white gold.
Oops! Again I made a mistake. The cut-outs on the orca vase were outlined in gold, not white gold. I still have that vase, one of the few I still have.
Karen
you guys are amazing that's for sure
Wow, the designs on the vases are so different and original. Beautiful!
JoAnne, your interpretation of Victor's photo is really good.
Thanks grampapa I'm not finished with it yet. It neds some more contrasts and shadows.
They are scans from photos that I took with my old 35mm film camera, as I didn't have digital back then when I took the photos. No scanning of vases. You can scan the covers of books, but not vases that I know of.
Karen
Sounds reasonable.
Wonderful, Karen!
Hi beautiful work every one ! such a talented bunch us gardeners
I just found this thread part 2 and I just finished this painting
laura
Great vases, Karen. Beautiful painting, Laura.
Thanks for the compliments everyone.
Love that leaf painting, Laura. Very nice.
Karen
Nice leaves Laura
Ive been working on a comission.
I dont relly like to do them, too much pressure.
Client turnned down the first one.
Here is my second attempt.
Night blooming Cirrus
If that "client" turned down the one you showed us, then, surely, that "client" has no eye!
I thought your first one was great!!! Well, I do like the second one, too. Now, I would have a hard time to choose between them!
Thanks Willi
She and I traded, she makes woven seed bead necklaces and I have one, now for my part.
She wanted a single flower with more of the details.
I like this one better.
She doesn't computer so everything is done by snailmail.
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It is kind of the same situation when I am doing graphic design.
I'll make them a nice design, and they reduce it to red letters on a white background! ugh!
I wonder why they didn't mention that they wanted boring in the first place.
I am thinking "I do full-color, digital printing, not cut vinyl lettering!!!" C'est la vie, eh?
I would rather have a client choose from work already completed.
I realize you HAVE to work to order. I would go nuts.
There is no possible way to see the vision other people have when they are talking about a project.
Communication is sadly a lost skill, no? Note how the stem of the word is Community.
Coincidence? I think not.
I don't go nuts any more, I have found a solution that is a happy medium. I send a half finished idea as a "starting point" and ask for their input. THEN they express what they had in mind all along.
I am usually pretty "on base," so if they are on a different page, I have only wasted half an effort. One of the benefits of digital design is nothing is permanent. Of course, asking good questions in the initial interview can carry you far.
I think a lot of folk are not as "mentally visual" as us artist types. They need to actually, physically see something.
I am a visual person and sometimes need to see the finished piece.
I do a halftone version of the image and photograph it, when I see it in Photoshop I know where the values and colors need tweaking.
When I was doing pottery comissions I had to make anf fire the piece before I could show it, by then ,if it's not right I do it over again, the "do overs" were sold at shows as part of the inventory.
I would never take a comission that wasn't in the glazes I was using at the time, so the "left piece" would fit into the display.
I simply wouldn't do a comission if I didn't think I could sell it if the customer didn't ike it.
There were a few of those I had to turn down.They either liked what I was designing or find someone else.
I designed lamps and jars with wood lids.
There were a lot of cannister sets and extra large table lamp comissions.
this is the 36" table lamp.
these are porceline cannisters ,sometimes they wanted a bigger and smaller jar or a set of five.
Those are great! I took a ceramics course in high school, but that was it ..... Of course, it was a lot of fun, and I recall, the most looked forward to class of the day.
JoAnn, that night blooming cirrus painting is great. I hope your client likes that one. I like the pottery, too. My vases were done using molds, but when I was in high school, and also for some college classes, I did a lot of hand thrown pottery. I also did many sculptures as well. I especially liked sculpting dragons. I spent many hours detailing the scales on them. I've done coil pots, which I wasn't really thrilled with, and boxes using slabs. I've also done some mosaic pieces. I loved doing those, and have been thinking lately of doing them again for some garden decorations. That is if I can find the time!
Karen
Throwing pots is how I made my living, its also what gave me arthritis in nearly all my joints.
Awesome vases, Karen--loved the watercolors Jo Ann & Laura. Right now I'm working on illustrations for the book I'm writing for my GD HayHay---I want to get back to the botanicals, but that won't happen until I get the book finished for her birthday in Feb.
lol, throwing pots is how I convinced a wonderful ceramics professor that retirement really was a good idea. I'm right handed when I write, but when I do just about anything else, I'm left handed, including throwing pots, which is difficult in the northern hemisphere. He tried to break me, he really did, and was very gentle about it. I threw the bare minimum requirement and then built everything else. A potter I am not, but it was a wonderfully fun experience and I still have a great little soap dish and a saucer to put flower pots on.
OMG Left handed thrower, you were working against yourself.
The traditional Japanese do it left handed.
lol, to put it mildly!
Hey.im a full blown lefty, some things are just a challenge! lol
Still a righty world??
This old Southerner is lurking again to enjoy all the beautiful work. I love the pottery and the painting of the Night Bloom Cerius is awesome. What size is the painting?
Betty
Kathleen - perhaps you are truly a 'south paw'. So many parents force their children to become right handed, but the children wouldn't remember as they were too young.
Picabo! the matted an framed piece measures 22X28
Its known as a half sheet.
Anita, not in my family. We were allowed to walk the path we were given. I took a 'right brain, left brain' test several years ago and came out with little or no differentiation. It makes life interesting.
love the right side.
I took that test too...DH & DS were very curious just how much of a lefty I am. Pretty much a true lefty, very hard for me to learn to knit, croquet ect... My Dear sweet Grandmother finally had the good sense to sit me in front of her and made me copy...it worked!!
Thank you for the size on your night Blooming Cirrus painting. It looked like it was larger than life size. Reminds me of paintings of one of my favorite artist, Joseph Raffael. His paintings are much larger, but the same feel as your work.
OMG I love Joseph Raffael.
There was an exhibit of his paintings at Roberts Wesslien College a few years ago.
Have you ever seen them in an exhibit?
They are huge. Four feet wide and eight feet long.
His background treatments of water and depts is amazing.
He uses "elephant" watercolor paper and rolls the piece across a table and attaches it to the wall.There are nice "process" pictures on his new website.
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