Florida Studio up & running....

My Florida studio is up and running....


Just today I unloaded boxes of tiles made in Ohio - to get fired here....


My electric kiln is wired...
And I'm ready to begin saggar firing at St. Pete Clay...


I'm excited to get in my groove.
More images once I get the kiln loaded next week...

And I'll go over a carved tile mural, start to finish...
a potential commission for a Florida couple...

see you then!

Some Om Tile Results

Just checking in quickly...
I unloaded my cone 04 kiln and got some interesting results.


I have a shot of this one in the green stage a few days ago. The engobes brushed off the carvings got some cool effects. I like it.


Here I used a mongo green engobe which yields lots of nice results. This is pretty good.


And this one has just a copper/gertsley slip on it fired in oxidation. Warm.
Wait til you see my reduction results!

2010 - A Year of New Challenges!

The year has begun and only time will tell what it brings.

2009 sure had its challenges for us all... and for those of us who live off discretionary income, well, it was that much more challenging.


We are all changing, adjusting and shifting with this new way. I'm now in Florida for my 2010 art fair season. I've done some new and exciting work in my new Ohio studio. I'm designing a new line for yoga studios. With that comes my carved OM tiles...


And my OM pots. Om is a 3-syllable chant (a - u - m) done in yoga and it represents the union of body, mind & spirit, which is at the center of yoga practice.

before

after
A collection of OM pots!

As usual, I'm working on my sculptural wall murals.


Now I'm putting engobes on greenware, then pulling, stretching and carving the clay from there.

I'm experimenting with cone 04 oxidation firing - so see what kind of results I get. (more results as I unload kilns)

more later...