Hood, a platter and a wine bottle holder!!!

 Above is Hood.  He is going to be the bottom of a totem that I am designing.  Will show you the results when it all assembled.

 Above and below is a platter.  I stamped the rubber stamp into the center and around the edges, painted with Jet Black and then rubbed it off to show the image.

 Here is a wine bottle holder with inlaid colored clay.  Stamped across the bottom too.

 12x12 commercially made tiles covered with Jet Black Velvet Glaze and then sgraffitoed into.  The tiles were mounted to a board which was mounted to a 12x12 canvas painted with black acrylic.  There were black foam core board cut to the size of the tiles and counted on four of them before mounting to the wood.  this gives it a dimensionality to the piece.  

Lisa Clague workshop!!

 I had the honor of taking a Lisa Clague pottery workshop in Lincoln, NM.  It was three days packed with creativity.  We started by making a coil base for our sculpture and working our way up to the neck.

 The neck was a slab rolled cylinder attached to the shoulder area.

 Lisa demoing her piece

 She is starting to get a face!

 I carved into her back.

 And into her arm

 a piece of lace was dipped into slip and draped over her shoulders.  This was taken as I was seeing where I wanted the lace to be. She also has a barbed wire necklace

 Dipped lace over her shoulders and dipped lace wrapped around her head

 She also has a giant nail added to her spine.

She will stay there to be fired and then shipped home.  I can't wait to see her!!

Lincoln, NM

 I went to a clay workshop taught by Lisa Clague in Lincoln, NM!  I stayed at the Wortley B&B and it was wonderful!  I was in room 2 which is the first turquoise door you see below.  Troy and Katharine are the proprietors and they are wonderful people!  The breakfast that comes with your stay is spectacular.  The workshop also had arranged to have two dinners there which were beyond anything that I thought I would have there.  Troy is the chef and he really out did himself with our menu.  We are talking blue cheese stuffed dates wrapped in bacon.  Home made bread sticks wrapped in prosciutto.  Brisket that he took two days to make.  Roasted root vegetables, the left overs of which he used in a frittata the next morning for breakfast. We were all very well fed.  They have two delightful young daughters too.  I highly recommend staying here if you are in the area!.

bowls!

 The texture on the outside of this bowl was made by pressing a lace tablecloth into the wet clay and then painting it with Mango mason stain mixed with water.  After it was all dry I rubbed the outside with a scrubby to have the texture show through.

 Cracked....but arn't we all a little.  It cracked when drying on the mold but I went ahead and fired it to see how it would look.  I spent an entire day extruding little triangular tubes and placing them next to each other and making a coil to slice really thin and place that around the mold.  The inside was then painted with slip made from mason stain.

 you can see the triangles here.  Mango, yellow and black.

 This bowl was hand painted using Velvet glazes.